‘Race To The Bottom’: A New Book About Diving Halifax Harbour

A new book chronicles author Bob Chaulk’s adventures while scuba diving the bottom of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia.
In “The Race to the Bottom: How Scuba Diving in Nova Scoria Saved My Life,” Chaulk writes about the strange and fascinating objects he finds and the hair-raising moments he has experienced, from coming to the surface and seeing his boat drifting out of sight to arriving on the surface in a snowstorm and having to navigate by compass to find the shore.
Chaulk, the SS Atlantic Heritage Park’s historian and a recognized expert on the SS Atlantic accident, takes the reader under warships, container ships and tugboats, through huge docks and under the ice.
Along the way, he reflects on the toll that civilization is taking on the ocean, of seagulls trying to break open golf balls to find food, of crabs trapped inside tires, and fish that take refuge in castoff bottles and grow too big to stay in but also too big to get out.
The book is available on Amazon.