[PW] Re: Help locate these kids' books?

[Daphne Drewello]

Sea Wasp wrote

> I've been trying to identify the following books for at least 10
> years. I read them when I was in junior high school, I think, which
> would be between '73 and '76.

> 2) A collection of stories about people's adventures in underwater
> settings; my hazy memory claims the title was simply "Underwater!"
> with a vague image of a diver menaced by a shark.

Possibly

Great Underwater Adventures, edited by McDonald Kendall (Pargurian Press,
1973)

Amazon says:

This book was published to mark the World Congress of Underwater Activities
held in London in Oct. 13, 1973. The World Congress, under the patronage of
H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, was organized by the British Sub-Aqua Club.
First UK edition of this collection of tales of" icy waters and wrecks, warm
waters and sharks" told by the daring men who endured them (divers from the
Club's many overseas branches and the Royal Navy-from New Zealand,
Australia, Africa, the United States and Canada.) Includes list of
illustrations.


Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jmestown, ND