DIVING FOR A LIVING / black and white interior ink

This self-published book is the autobiography of air diver/welder Robert ‘Bob’ Acton. It is an amusing and very readable story of how Bob managed to break into professional diving at the age of 23 in 1976 with North Sea Diving Services, having been a keen amateur and how his career developed, the hard way, in West Africa. As might be expected, his life is full of gritty anecdotes of hairy operations. But he seems to have made much life – long friends along the way and just one or two enemies. ‘Diving for a living’ is aimed at anyone who is interested in knowing about the ups and downs, trials and tribulations of the offshore diver-