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Magazine Articles  -   Obsessed with Malta

Sport Diver magazine April 2008.

4 page article by Mark Evans and Martin Bruce

Love a dive destination so much you've harboured a desire to write a book about it? Peter Lemon has just finished his second dive guide and knows all about the trials and tribulations of self publishing.

 

Book Reviews

Sport Diver - April 2008 Martin Bruce - Rated 4 stars out of 5

Since the first edition of this book, titled A Guide to Shore Diving the Maltese Islands , Peter Lemon has worked hard at improving on what was already a solid guide book. It's been a labour of love, and the finished product has indeed resulted in a better overall book, with weak areas like underwater maps now re-drawn and arranged in a more user-friendly way.
With artificial wrecks seemingly scuttled in Malta every few months, Peter has managed to get the latest, the P29 - which went down in August 2007 - covered, so if you want a dive guide to the Maltese islands which is bang up to date, you've found it.
Unusually, Peter has included aerial photos of the dive sites, which alongside more-detailed underwater maps, allows you to pinpoint reference points both on land and underwater. They're particularly useful if you are diving independently and need to know entry and exit points, car parking, etc.
Dives are described very methodically, maybe too methodically. Peter's style works best when describing the ins and outs of a reef dive, but the wreck dives sometimes miss details like areas to explore, penetration points, etc.
Scuba Diving Malta Gozo and Comino is, however, the most up-to-date and comprehensive dive guide to the islands, and worth buying even if you have the first one.

 

Diver Magazine - April 2008 John Liddiard

Maltese overview     Scuba Diving- Malta, Gozo, Comino by Peter G Lemon.

I like maps in guide-books. Peter Lemon's guide to diving the Maltese islands goes one better. Not only are there maps of dive sites and maps of how to find them, but there are aerial photographs. With so many divers going to Malta and Gozo simply to rent cylinders and do their own thing, these are a wonderful way of putting each dive in context, so that there is no doubt just where the best entry point can be found. With typically clear water, 1 could even pick out shadows of some of the wrecks or clouds of divers' bubbles above them, though not in every photograph!
The first edition was titled Guide to Shore Diving the Maltese Islands . The change of title comes about because this second edition adds 25 pages of 52 boat-diving locations, though in less detail than the shore-diving sites.
It also brings the shore-diving sites up to date, with the addition of the recently sunk patrol boat P29 at Cirkewwa. I am not sure about the big A4 format. Standing above a dive site and working out where to go, I can see the big pages coming in useful. For travel, something a bit more compact might be more convenient. On the other hand, this book is already 224 pages thick, and a smaller page size would only have made it thicker. 

 

Personal buyers’ comments

Michael Mcbain 

Thank you for the new books and congratulations on what I and my instructor friend believe are the definitive Malta dive guides

 

Reverend John Potipher

Congratulations for producing such a brilliant book, the foreword by the High Commissioner says it all.

 

Melita and Kevin

I had a look at your book last night for the first time, it looks great!  Nice and clear and really well set out, well done.

 

Andy & Babs

Thank you very much for the book I am sure it will give us many hours of pleasure.

 

Darren Foreman

Thanks Peter for the book - it’s great!!!

 

Marcus & Sara

Just read the wonderful review in Sport Diver, on the new book!  Good to get such an in depth article in there and the review is really positive. Well done!