Dive: The Discovery is the first book of the 'Dive' series by Gordon Korman. It starts with four teenagers recieving internships with the Poseidon Oceanographic Institute. The interns consisted of Bobby Kaczinski, Dante Lewis, Andrea Ballantyne, and Star Ling, all of which are beginner divers or handicapped. They all wonder,"Why did they chose us?" Soon after many early mornings only to find their diving boat already out, they realize the truth. These Caribbean waters were hiding multiple wrecks and the children are merely a cover up. With the assistance of another diving team on the island, the teenagers finally get a chance to catch up to the treasure hunters and make their own discovery. Dante, the colorblind photographer, can see the floor bottom with ease and with it the coins and anchor of a wreck. The dive team is told it is phony when really the treasure hunters plan to uncover it themselves. In the end of the book Kaz, Dante, Andrea, and Star catch the team illegally killing coral to reach the wreck and are left to wonder, 'what now?'
Bobby Kaczinski, commonly known as Kaz, is a prominent character in this book. Before he decided to learn to dive his life was all hockey. Living in Canada he played hockey for school, out of school, and in the summer. He had potential and his family and everyone else knew it, until he gave a legal, one in a million blow to another player paralyzing him(4). He gave up his dream. He became protective of all his teammates. From then on his protectiveness is evident. He saves Star when her airline is broke. He goes after Dante when he is endangered by the wildlife. He even confronts a tiger shark to protect his dive team (125). Kaz is the boy who learned from his mistakes and shows it.
Dante Lewis is also another interesting character. He is introduced as the clumsy boy but amazing black and white photographer. He has been featured in newspapers and magazines around the world for his work but they all want more; they all want Dante to capture color photographs. He seems as though he is quiet because of his personality, but as the book progresses he tells his secret. He's colorblind. He is living in a black and white movie. Dante is the perfect example that everyone has another side or something that makes them who they are. For Dante it was his sight, for me it may be where I live. Dante is one of the characters I have very easily related to in any book I have ever read.
One of the themes I noticed was growing closer with your friends. Throughout the book, the dive team is left on shore and is forced to be together whether they like it or not. They learn all the good and bad things about one another such as Dante's colorblindness (113) and Andrea's family troubles (52). All their secrets are unveiled when they spend time with each other and spot all the strange things about one another. This caused them to not only want to be closer, but it forced them to be.
Although I enjoyed the book I would not recommend it to readers at my age. The pace was slow and the plot was predictable. It did however, spark my intrigue into diving and treasure hunting. This book would not me one of my favorites,but there are multiple other books in this series, so if I do chose to read them I hope they go into further depths of the story with more than just the childish plot line of scary sharks and a sunken ship. Dive: The Discovery was not enjoyable for me but I am able to say for some audiences it will be. I simply do not have the point of view to appreciate it.
Bobby Kaczinski, commonly known as Kaz, is a prominent character in this book. Before he decided to learn to dive his life was all hockey. Living in Canada he played hockey for school, out of school, and in the summer. He had potential and his family and everyone else knew it, until he gave a legal, one in a million blow to another player paralyzing him(4). He gave up his dream. He became protective of all his teammates. From then on his protectiveness is evident. He saves Star when her airline is broke. He goes after Dante when he is endangered by the wildlife. He even confronts a tiger shark to protect his dive team (125). Kaz is the boy who learned from his mistakes and shows it.
Dante Lewis is also another interesting character. He is introduced as the clumsy boy but amazing black and white photographer. He has been featured in newspapers and magazines around the world for his work but they all want more; they all want Dante to capture color photographs. He seems as though he is quiet because of his personality, but as the book progresses he tells his secret. He's colorblind. He is living in a black and white movie. Dante is the perfect example that everyone has another side or something that makes them who they are. For Dante it was his sight, for me it may be where I live. Dante is one of the characters I have very easily related to in any book I have ever read.
One of the themes I noticed was growing closer with your friends. Throughout the book, the dive team is left on shore and is forced to be together whether they like it or not. They learn all the good and bad things about one another such as Dante's colorblindness (113) and Andrea's family troubles (52). All their secrets are unveiled when they spend time with each other and spot all the strange things about one another. This caused them to not only want to be closer, but it forced them to be.
Although I enjoyed the book I would not recommend it to readers at my age. The pace was slow and the plot was predictable. It did however, spark my intrigue into diving and treasure hunting. This book would not me one of my favorites,but there are multiple other books in this series, so if I do chose to read them I hope they go into further depths of the story with more than just the childish plot line of scary sharks and a sunken ship. Dive: The Discovery was not enjoyable for me but I am able to say for some audiences it will be. I simply do not have the point of view to appreciate it.
