Books To Read While On a Dive Trip

[CODMAN]

Funny... My reading interests (other than with an instructional purpose) stear clear away from scuba diving...:11:

I guess I'm just not real hard-core... I'll never be able to make it DIR... Or get myself a BP/W and tell everybody using BCDs they are going to die using those worthless pieces of %?$$........

I must admit I have a leaning towards classics of litterature (mostly French) and a bit of fiction thrown in there... I'm a big Tolkien fan...:14:

 

[paolov]

Any body here want to swap books?

Just finished with "Down To A Sunless Sea" - David Poyer. a fiction novel about cave diving.

how about this for a swap

with
Colbert Eraptions

 

[boljakool]

i just found a copy of Shadow Divers!

 

[iris_ice]

oooh! looks interesting, penn.

can i borrow it after you read it?

the author himself gave this to me as a gift last sunday (naks!) :boings: with autograph pa! ("to iris. my guardian fish. stan waterman" - awww...)

 

[boljakool]

iris, after aimees.

what's your book about?

 

[iris_ice]

iris, after aimees.

what's your book about?

it's his biography. stan's 85 years old! and still dives. atlantis in PG invited him last week form some dives.

"Stan Waterman has been at the forefront of scuba diving since its inception as a recreational sport both in this country and throughout the world. His attraction to the underwater world began as a schoolboy in 1936 when he first dived with a Japanese Ama diver's mask in Florida. In the 1950's, inspired by Jacques Cousteau's revolutionary invention of the Aqua Lung, Mr. Waterman acquired the first one in Maine and went on to pioneer scuba diving in that state.

Between 1954 and 1958 he operated a dive business in the Bahamas with a boat he had built specially for diving. His first 16mm film on diving was produced during those years. For the next fifteen years, Mr. Waterman continued to record his worldwide journeys and exploits on film; most were ultimately purchased as television documentaries. In 1965 he took his entire family - wife and three children - to Tahiti. Their careers as television stars were launched when National Geographic purchased the rights to air his film of that year-long experience.

In 1968 he collaborated with Peter Gimbel on the classic shark film, Blue Water, White Death. He was associate producer and underwater cameraman during the seven-month long production. However, he may be best know for his work in commercial film. He was co-director of underwater photography and second unit in the production of The Deep, based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel. In other collaborations with his close friend and neighbor, Mr. Benchley, he was responsible for ten years' worth of productions for ABC's "American Sportsman Show". More recent productions include documentaries for ABC's "Spirit of Adventure" series and the "Expedition Earth" series on ESPN.

Mr. Waterman has received numerous honors and awards for his work in television and in behalf of the sea including five Emmys, two Gold Medals from the U.K. Underwater Film Festival, four Golden Eagles, a lifetime Achievement Award from the Miami Expo and from Boston Sea Rovers, the Cousteau Diver of the Year Award, the Richard Hopper Day Memorial Medal from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, the Reaching Out Award from the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association, and most recently has been named to the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame . The Discovery Channel produced and broadcast a two-hour biographical special about Mr. Waterman, The Man Who Loves Sharks.

Mr. Waterman graduated from Dartmouth in 1946, where he studied with Robert Frost and earned a B.A. in English. He has maintained an appreciation of language and literature throughout his life. He is married and is the father of two sons and a daughter, each of whom has acquired a special love of the sea from him. He and his oldest son, Gordy, a successful cameraman in his own right, won the first father and son Emmy for their work together in the "National Geographic Explorer" production, Dancing With Stingrays. Mr. Waterman maintains residences in New Jersey and Maine.

Mr. Waterman's first book, Sea Salt, was published in 2005 and is in its second printing. Mr. Waterman continues to dive, film, lecture, and hosts dive tours."

 

[boljakool]

wow! you're very lucky to meet the man! did you do some work with him?

 

[paolov]

the author himself gave this to me as a gift last sunday (naks!) :boings: with autograph pa! ("to iris. my guardian fish. stan waterman" - awww...)

don't they earn from selling their books and the autograph would be bonus to those who purchased/paid their books

 

[boljakool]

lolo pao, she dint buy the book.

 

[iris_ice]

wow! you're very lucky to meet the man! did you do some work with him?

nah! i just escorted him from manila hotel to the ocean park and back. wish i had a grandpa like him, you know? someone who'll tell me stories of what it was like diving in those days.

@lolo pao: he gave his book to me in appreciation of my helping him out :crazy3: and he said he doesn't earn much from his book...