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Images of Modern America - Diving Off The Oregon Coast

Written and Illustrated by Tom Hemphill and Floyd Holcom

Arcadia Publishing is the largest publisher of local history books and regional content guides in America and is located in my hometown, Mount Pleasant, SC. Over the years, they have brought a series of wonderful books to the public in their “Images of Modern America” series of books.

One of their newest publications is Diving Off The Oregon Coast. Authors Tom Hemphill and Floyd Holcom have been diving the Oregon coast for many years and have shared some of their adventures and experiences in this wonderful photographic collage that brings to life the underwater world of the Oregon coast.

The book is a photographic journey with detailed descriptions of the pictures that will educate, inform, and entertain readers, as well as a dive guide with the history of local diving included. There are masterful images of anemone, sponges, nudibranchs, starfish, huge ling cod, plate-sized rock scallops, abalone, giant Pacific octopus, and a very friendly wolf eel. This book truly showcases the bountiful waters of the Pacific Northwest.

also presents the history of diving off the Oregon Coast including photographs and an impressive narrative of the development of cold-water diving equipment over the last 60-plus years. There is