Diver Cap and his boat tender Dave put themselves in imminent danger for the high-dollar loads of abalone that will support their families. Based on notes from Cap’s logbook, this tome details the real and true events of a diver’s encounters with great white sharks around California’s Farallon Islands. “I jumped out of my bunk and looked over the starboard rail of the boat to see a twenty-foot great white shark swimming right next to us. The shark turned on its side and looked at us with an eerie stare. His eye was the deepest black and looked like a number eight pool ball. He was heading to the islands too.” Cap makes his living diving for abalone off the coast of California, but he is never alone in the water. Follow his adventures with his boat tender Dave as they dive around the dangerous and unpredictable Farallon Islands. Located in the area known as the Red Triangle, the Farallon Islands offer a popular Pacific Ocean stop for white sharks as they migrate north. The predators venture there to do one eat seals. After they gorge themselves on an abundance of elephant seals, they head to Tomales Bay to breed. No matter how brave you are, there is no question that you’re at the bottom of the food chain when the great whites show up. Diving the Devil’s Crown gives you a front-row seat to real-life encounters with great whites. Diver and author Jeff Baldwin expands on his personal logbook notes to bring you Cap’s greatest adventures in the Pacific Ocean . . . and the thrill of survival.