Underwater Adventure - an Adventure series book by Willard Price

The Hunts are once again onboard the Lively Lady, this time with an experienced diver and scientist who is present to perform a range of underwater experiments. Since he needs help, he teaches both boys to dive - snorkelling, scuba, and traditional suited diving. At the same time as performing his experiments, the Hunts are once more on commission to capture animals and sea creatures for their father.

Running into eels, clams and a range of other fish and animals, the Hunts once again run into complications in their scientific mission. The presence of the shipwreck of a Spanish bullion vessel attracts less savory characters, and a huricane in the region threatens to destroy everything they are working for - not to mention the boys themselves...

This book can be difficult to get hold of. One of the few books that features deaths, and a villian who is both a coward and sociopathic, it is rarely reprinted as parents are often concerned about what their children read. I was in the early teens when I got hold of it though, and frankly I didn't see what all the fuss was about.

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Only avalable as Video on Demand in the US, the Blue Planet series was released by the BBC. It covers aspects of ocean life from the smallest to the largest, and reveals some srprising aspects of otherwise well-known species, captured on film for the first time.