Rod Macdonald

Rod Macdonald is a bestselling author of books focused on diving. His titles are must haves for anyone involved in the mysterious and exciting world of diving.

He began diving in the early 1980s and developed a love for shipwrecks after his first dive in the Scapa Flow. His writing career began upon the realisation that there was little information available on German wrecks. The dynamism of the subject has led to four editions of Dive Scapa Flow.

Rod went on to write several other dive manuals which include Dive Scotland’s Greatest Wrecks, Into The Abyss and The Darkness Below.

Along with his dive buddy, Paul, he runs Dive Charters out of Stonehaven where divers can visit the sites that feature in Rod’s beautiful books.

His latest book, Great British Shipwrecks, will be published in October 2012. It covers his transition from deep air diving to trimix diving – where helium gas mixes are used to make deeper diving safer.

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