Guide to Diving & Snorkeling to South Africa and Mozambique

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New Book by Tim Rock and Jean-Pierre Botha: A Guide to Diving and Snorkeling to South Africa and Mozambique

Tim Rock and Jean-Pierre Botha have announced a new book, Guide to Diving & Snorkeling to South Africa and Mozambique. The series is part of a series of guides to diving and snorkeling spots around the world, including Hawaii, Raja Ampat and Northeast Indonesia, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau and Yap, Bali, and Truk Lagoon, Pohnpei and Kosrae.

Featuring 200 full-color images, the book describes dive sites in detail and includes both practical information and diving tips. Both printed and electronic versions of the book are available.

See the press release below for more details.

PRESS PRESS

Guide to Diving & Snorkeling to South Africa and MOZAMBIQUE

by Tim Rock and Jean-Pierre Botha

Internationally published author TIM ROCK has made numerous diving and photographic trips to lush South Africa and its northern neighbour, Mozambique. As countries begin to open up after COVID, Rock and co-authors and Gansbaai, South Africa, JEAN-PIERRE BOTHA resident created a new book on diving and snorkeling there. From the amazing Cape Kelp forests to the tropical whale shark beaches around Inhambane, this pairing gives you a glimpse of some great diving and snorkeling.

Nature has endowed the African continent with both incredible natural resources and an amazing abundance of animal life. This is especially true of South Africa, whose amazing national parks and remarkable game management schemes have catapulted the country to the top of the world’s tourist destinations. Few visitors realize that South Africa’s treasures extend far beyond its land to its diverse oceans. This is where “My Octopus Teacher” was filmed, and shark life in both countries makes regular appearances during Shark Week. Mozambique is also where the Marine Megafauna organization was founded.

Botha is one of the pioneers in great white cage diving and currently leads expeditions throughout southern Africa. To write this, the authors initially embarked on a scuba diving trip that would take them 1900 miles (more than 3,000 km) from the east coast of South Africa to Mozambique. Along the way, they’ll experience cold water diving around the Cape, where kelp forests sway with the currents, cross temperate waters rich with diverse marine life, and finally end up in ridges luxuriant tropical corals off central southern Mozambique. You can snorkel with whale sharks, snorkel with floating mantises and observe amazing wildlife in a week or less! This huge stretch of African coast is amazing.

Over the years the authors have returned to many points on this route. Here are their latest findings on the rich marine life in this amazing diving spot.

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