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DPD Associates, [No date: circa 1985]. Wraps, 83 pp; 23 cm; printed in New Zealand; illustrated throughout with color underwater photographs by James M. Robinson, Jim Watt, and other contributors, plus cartoon dive-flag illustrations and a Kona Coast site map.
In Good condition. Light bumping and creasing to covers with mild shelf wear and a hint of soiling. One interior page has a jagged 1.5" fore-edge tear repaired with clear cellophane tape (non-archival); a second page has an unrepaired 3/4" fore-edge tear. Binding tight; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Original Sport Chalet price label affixed to the inside front cover. Otherwise unmarked.Compilation of Dick Dresie's weekly shore-diving columns from West Hawaii Today, the Kona daily newspaper, gathered and edited by Ralph and Margaret Newton for publication by DPD Associates. The volume describes approximately 34 numbered shore dive sites along the Kona Coast of Hawaii Island, from Hapuna and the Kohala District in the north down through Kailua-Kona, Keauhou, Captain Cook, and the South Kona District to Honuapo. Each entry provides specific entry-and-exit instructions, depth and current notes, and observations on the marine life encountered (over 680 fish species are noted as inhabiting Hawaiian waters, with roughly 420 shallow-water species accessible to shore divers and snorkelers). Color underwater photography illustrates representative marine life including Tinker's Butterflyfish, Raccoon Butterflyfish, Slate-Pencil urchin, Hawaiian Tiger Cowries, Spanish Dancer nudibranch, and the manta rays of Keauhou Bay. Cover photograph by Bob Fewell of West Hawaii Today. Dresie was a longtime Kailua-Kona resident and dive columnist; he died in 2022. The book served as the standard reference for shore diving on the Big Island in the years following its publication.Contents: Acknowledgement; From the Author; Introduction; chapters covering numbered shore dive sites along the Kona Coast (including North End of Old Airport, Hapuna, Kahalu'u Bay, Keauhou, and others through South Kona District).