Tony Groom joined the Royal Navy at the age of 17, determined to become a diver. As a member of the Fleet Clearance Diving Team, he found himself diving for mines, dealing with unexploded bombs and being shot at in the Falklands War. He left the Navy in 1985 and has since traveled the world as a commercial diver.
Anyone who has ever been affiliated with a military underwater
demolition team or had the desire to enlist in one will not be able
to put down Diver by Tony Groom. . . . Much of his first-person
narrative is a candid look at adventures, relationships, personal
triumphs and failures of a man whose job is to install or defuse
explosives in cold dark waters. It demands nerves of steel, since
one slight error would be the last error.
*Northeast Dive News*
Diver is the story of Tony Groom, a man who enlisted at the age of
seventeen to become a diver for the Royal Navy. Serving countless
years under extremely dangerous conditions, he speaks on his past
career and his current career as a commercial diver.
A tale of a man who truly loves what he does when no one else would
think of doing it, Diver is an enthusiastically recommended
tale.
*Bookwatch*
Wide-ranging, illuminating and sympathetic ... This tale fills a
massive gap and is long overdue.
*Commodore Michael C. Clapp*
The Royal Navy Clearance Divers, not the SAS, are the British
mystery unit of the Falklands War.
*Major General Julian Thompson*
Epitomises the esprit de corps of the Royal Navy's Clearance Diving
branch, as well as the close-knit camaraderie of the commercial
offshore diver.
*Mick Fellows*
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