Good scuba related books

[ReeferBen]

I am just finishing up with "The Last Dive." I loved this read and all the good information in it. Is there any other good books I should look for next? What do you recommend.

TIA

 

[DA Aquamaster]

"Deep Decent" is a good read and gives an overview of divers on the Andrea Doria from it's sinking to thru 1999.

"Down Time" is also a good book and is a compilation of writings on scuba diving by a wide range of authors from veteran tech divers to Dave Barry.

"Neutral Bouyancy" is also a good book and is essentially a compliation of short stories about diving.

"Descent into Darkness" is a historical account about divers salvaging the Oklahoma following its sinking at Pearl Harbor. It is about helmet divers in some very challenging conditions but is still very interesting to a scuba diver.

 

[Natasha]

Check out this link.

http://www.scubaboard.com/t42718/s.html

 

[queentrigger]

My favourite is ' Last of the Blue Water Hunters', though its not on scuba

 

[scubasean]

My favourite is ' Last of the Blue Water Hunters', though its not on scuba

Try HellDivers Rodeo....

Its about a bunch of nuts that dived in their old disco polyester, hunting sharks and other large fish around the oil platforms near Louisiana....

Quite a crackup...I laughed many times when reading this book.

 

[R_Deluca]

The Last Dive and Deep Decent are good! Try the Technical Diver Encyclopedia by Tom Mount and Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria by Joe Haberstroh.

Safe Diving!

 

[wreckchick]

If you have any thought you might want to do caves, or not: Caverns Measureless to Man by Sheck Exley. Easy read and gives a lot of history and context in the early days of cave diving.

Rachel

 

[queentrigger]

I also like the US Navy Diving Manual