Boone and Emily are back in DEEP FOCUS!

Welcome to the Cayman Islands! I’ve experienced some of the best diving of my life in the waters off Little Cayman and Grand Cayman, and I couldn’t wait to throw Boone and Emily into them. (Alas, apart from diving the Tibbetts, I haven’t yet experienced “The Brac”)

I had a lot of fun with this book! Many of you may know I’ve been an actor in film and television for decades, and this time around I was able to draw on some life experience that wasn’t diving! I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it! ~Nick

Here are a few shots from our trip to Little Cayman. Beautiful sunrises, hammocks aplenty! Tiny airports… tiny cuts in the reef, to navigate. The Beach Nuts bar, and its attendant iguanas.

Up from the depths...

The wait is almost over!

Deep Devil is coming April 1st! And this one’s a doozy! I can’t wait to drop this into your Kindles and Audible accounts… and for those who like the tactile feel of a good paperback, that too will be available April 1st! (maybe even soon… shhhhhhh…) If you haven’t gotten it yet…

The book is primarily set in Cozumel— hands down, one of my favorite places to dive. I’ve seen all sorts of wonderful critters there. Here are a few photos taken by one of my dive buddies… I’ve got the same subjects in my photos… but I’m a terrible photographer, so I begged him for his!

I have never seen so many LARGE Green Morays as in Cozumel. Plenty of other places have some big fellas, but only in Coz have I seen some as long as a diver. Turtles, too, were in abundance. The only place I’ve seen more in one dive was on the wild East side of Bonaire. Cozumel is also one of the few places on earth where you can find the splendid toadfish. I THOUGHT it was the ONLY place… but researching this book, I found out it can be found in a few other places. And finally… a lesser electric ray! First and only time we’ve seen one. And, well… THAT one I didn’t see. My buddy took that shot, and he didn’t alert us! He owes me a cerveza.

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Kill Matt

This is Matt. Matt is a fellow actor and dive buddy who has been on several dive trips with me. Matt has never read my books. So, I asked you to help me kill him. Rest assured… Matt will soon meet his end. Want to know how?

Buy Deep Devil!

The Adventure Continues!

Boone n’ Emily are back! They’ve traveled quite a ways from the mountainous island of Saba to put down roots in Belize, on the sea-level island of Caye Caulker. I was fortunate enough to visit Caulker back at the turn or the century before much of the recent development. But even with all the new development, it is still a sleepy island, where the motto is “Go Slow”.

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Caye Caulker

Five miles long, less than a mile wide, this island of 2,000 souls couldn’t be more geographically different than Saba. The highest elevation? Eight feet.

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The Streets of Caulker

Golf carts and bicycles coast by the brightly colored shops, stilt houses, picket fences, and outdoor grill restaurants.

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The split

Caulker’s most distinctive feature, The Split is a channel that cuts between the main, southern part of the island, and the sparsely populated northern half.

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The Split…

…is widely believed to have been created by Hurricane Hattie, but many old-timers say the hurricane “gave it a start”, and then fishermen helped it along. Time and nature did the rest.

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The Lazy Lizard (THEN)

“A sunny place for shady people”, the Lazy Lizard on the edge of The Split is one of the most iconic spots on Caulker. This is what it looked like when I was there…

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The Lazy Lizard (NOW)

And here’s what it looks like today. What a difference two decades makes! Incidentally, in the “THEN” photo above… that red truck, we were told, was the only non-golf cart vehicle on the island at the time.

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The I and I Reggae Bar

My favorite watering hole on the island, the I and I is a treehouse-style, three story building with rope swings instead of chairs. If you look closely, you can see a sign for Belize’s national beer, Belikin.

I have plenty more to share, but I’ll need to sit down at the scanner with my pre-digital photos! In the meantime, grab Deep Roots on preorder.

It comes out May 11 on Amazon and May 12 on Audible!

The Sulphur Mine of Saba

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Saba’s volcanic origins meant it possessed a healthy amount of sulphur, and in the late 19th century a sulphur mine was established. Sulphur was shipped down on a line to ships near the Green Island pinnacle. The mine changed hands many times… one owner committed suicide, cutting his own throat in a New York motel in 1881. Finally, in 1909, The Saba Sulphur Company was dissolved.

Situated below Lower Hell’s Gate, the mine was a curiosity to some hikers, although its winding, cramped passageways, stifling heat, and sulphurous fumes made it a fairly dangerous place to explore. A tourist went missing in 2006, and nearly a year later his mummified remains were discovered when a group of hikers had gotten lost in the mines, nearly succumbing to the fumes themselves after their flashlight died. Fortunately, one had a keychain light and they managed to find their way out, discovering the body on the way.

For a time, the mines were closed and parts of it were sealed off. Today, the Sulphur Mine is open to visitors, but most of it is blocked off. Even now, it is recommended you never go in alone. Click the photos below for a short slideshow of some mine photos.

A few more photos from my trip to Saba. See if you spot locations from "Deep Cut" !

The village of The Bottom, the capital of the Dutch island of Saba.

The village of The Bottom, the capital of the Dutch island of Saba.

Click the slide show for 8 photos.

I'll be appearing on "Fosse/Verdon", tonight, May 14 at 10pm on FX

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Ever wanted to see me with mustache and bushy eyebrows? Of course you have. Now’s your chance. Got to work with the astonishing Michelle Williams and Sam Rockwell! I play award winning film editor Alan Heim.

Deep Cut has landed!

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It’s been about a week since Deep Cut hit Amazon and Audible. I thought it might be fun to post some images from my 2018 trip to the Dutch island of Saba. You may recognize some of the locations! Our plane was delayed so we didn’t arrive until late afternoon. This installment is just our arrival and evening out at the Tipsy Goat bar. Photos are in a slideshow, so just click to advance.

"Deep Cut" and the Dutch island of Statia

Although Deep Cut spends most of it’s time on Saba, readers will enjoy a brief time on another favorite of mine, the tiny island of Statia… or “Sint Eustatius” if you’re feeling proper. Statia was the very first solo vacation I ever took, and it was there that I took my very first dives, with the Golden Rock Dive Center. It was ALSO in Statia that I spotted that striking “mountain in the water”, Saba, right across the way. I grabbed a puddle-jumper flight on WinAir and took my first trip to Saba during my Statian vacation (hey, that rhymes!) Together with Saint Martin, these three islands make up the SSS Islands of the Dutch Caribbean (as opposed to the ABC Islands: Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao.) Here are a few pics from my trips to “The Golden Rock”.

"Deep Cut" and the Dutch island of Saba

The month after I released Deep Shadow, I hopped on a plane with some longtime scuba buddies and jetted off to Saba. Well… “jetted” to Saint Martin, then “propellered” to Saba, landing on the famous airstrip, one of the shortest commercial airstrips in the Western Hemisphere. Saba has always fascinated me from the first time I visited it for a single day back in 1999. On this latest trip, I met with many wonderful people on this tiny mountain in the Caribbean Sea and learned a lot about the history (and legends), culture, and geography. We dove with Sea Saba, one of the most professional outfits I’ve come across. We toured the Sulphur Caves, climbed Mount Scenery, ate wonderful food… and by the end, I had a few ideas about where Deep Shadow’s sequel, Deep Cut, might take Boone and Emily. The book picks right up where the reader left them, at El Momo Cottages on Saba.

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