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John D. Craig and Morgan Degn's book had slightly different titles when it was published in the USA and then in the UK:


1. John D. Craig and Morgan Degn (1965) Invitation to Skin and Scuba Diving, New York: Simon and Schuster.
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2. John D. Craig and Morgan Degn (1967) Introduction to Skin and Scuba Diving, edited by Brian Hesketh, London: Cassell.
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Simon and Schuster used the term "An Invitation to...." in a few of their "Fireside Library" series of books.
 
More on John D Craig -- "Danger is my business"

He was first married to Gloria as noted in the book- He never ever mentioned her in any conversation
As long as I knew him he was married to a very gracious wonderful lady named Millie
They had two daughter who are both now probably in their 60s-70s
Last report - one lived in Phoenix the other in Houston - (as I recall)
John D Craig passed away August 30. 1997 in Phoenix, interned in California

His name was John Craig with no middle name or initial He added the letter "D"

John & Max Gene Nohl developed and introduced Helium -into diving

WW11- USAF- filmed on all fronts
36 combat missions
6 medals
10 battle stars
Purple heart
Photographic OFIC at the first atomic bomb test at Bikini


Kingdom of the sea
~~The First Underwater Program for TV ~~

With Col John D Craig & Bob Stevens
(John really liked and capitalized on his WW11 USAF rank)
( a few episodes Zale Parry was riding high as a the WR Depth holder and was co-host)
Ex-Producer- Martin Ross
Emperor Productions
Director -Ed Leftwich

Danger is my business
The literary guild- NYC
1938-(81 years ago!)
Hard cover with dust jacket
309 pages
Illustrated with photographs
Cover: a picture of John as a very young men with verbiage of his adventures

Personally Inscribed:
To Sam Miller,
with best wishes
from one lousy diver
to another
John D Craig
Nov, 1, 1962

(2018-1962- Good gosh !~~56 years ago! over 1/2 century ! )

Danger is my business # 2
Garden City Publishing Company
Garden City, NYC
1941 (77 years ago!)
Hard cover with dust jacket
309 pages
Illustrated with photographs
Dust jacket A picture of Craig holding a UW cameras in left hand, dressed ibn diving suit abd holding a helmet in the other hand - Much beter cover that book #1

The book was a run-- way best seller and was translated into 17 different languages plus a braille edition
If interested in a very historic book it should not be difficult to acquire one of the editions.

Enough contributions of dive history for today-
The sun is bright the weather is warm --Off to the beach with Lucky

Sam Miller, 111
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