Blue Angels and Whales: A Record of Personal Experiences Below and Above Water

1946

Special Collections QL617 GD98. Reproduced by permission of the Robert Gibbings Estate and the Heather Chalcroft Literary Agency

London: J. M. Dent

Gibbings had a life-long affinity with water and was fascinated by the natural world under its surface. Diving trips to Bermuda and the Red Sea in the late 1930s culminated in Gibbings’s Blue Angels and Whales. On these trips he would dive wearing a large helmet and draw underwater on xylonite, a form of celluloid.