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The Reef Set: Reef Fish, Reef Creature and Reef Coral (3 Volumes) (Reef Set)

Format: Hardcover
Author: Paul Humann
ReleaseDate: February, 2002
Publisher: New World Publications
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The Reef Set: Reef Fish, Reef Creature and Reef Coral (3 Volumes) (Reef Set)
Thank you. I am using these books for my Marine Biology class and they have really helped alot.
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Excellent book set
I badly needed a guide to identify all those critters I find while diving in the caribbean and this book set is very usefull for this. I am diving a lot lately and also started taking underwater pictures. It's packed nicely, has very good quality pictures and helpfull texts.

If there was a similar set for the american pacific I'd buy it right now.

Essential for anyone who dives the Caribbean
You get great photos and descriptions of fish, invertebrates, crustaceans, molluscs, coral and information on the frequency of ocurrence so you know what to expect before you enter the water. It would be hard to find a more complete reference set for the underwater life of the Western Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

I've found the area information to be dead-on. For example: grouper are overfished in many places and they are a very rare sight in most conventional dive sites in the Mexican Caribbean while yellowtail are all over the Great Maya Reef- absolutely my experience in several dives there. I didn't expect to see as many photos of juvenile fish, but there are many included in this guide which is very welcome because often the juvenile will bear different markings than adults.

The authors include common behavior traits of sealife which I know to be true as well: Permit and Barracuda may follow you around, but Parrotfish will shy away. When I let a first-time diver read this about the Barracuda before hitting the water, she wasn't as freaked out when it actually happened to her.

There is one drawback to having this set on your bookshelf. . . every time you pick it up, you end up booking another dive trip.

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