© Lorem Ipsum Dolor 2010 Made with Xara My book  review  taken from the August 2009        Magazine for Underwater Professionals Contractors. 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.                                                                                                                                   The author has sensibly avoided glamorising his career and told it as it really was warts-and-all. The stories are authentic, fascinating and an invaluable insight into the reality of commercial diving.  Somehow he  survived having his back broken in a craning accident and thanks to the work of a skilled surgeon and relentless and agonising physiotherapy; he has worked his way back. This is an interesting read and many will readily identify with his adventurous life.                                                                                                                                                                        Why not  download a  e book for £4.00 It’s a must