looking for reading material

[bwollard]

I am looking for some scuba related reading past beginner level(deep,wreck,not cave). I have read The Last Dive. It was great!!! Also The Blueprint To Survival by Sheck Exley (not very good). Any more???

 

[OceanSpirit]

No diver's collection should be without 'The Silent World' by Jacques Costeau. My copy is so dog-eared, I call it Shep!

 

[ericfine50]

You did not like Blue Print for Survival? How come? Any of the Airspeed books are good information to have on hand.

Eric

 

[svs3]

As a general reference I think the NOAA Diving Manual is hard to beat.The new edition just came out last month so is very up to date. You might also want to take a look at the Diversification series put out by Best Publishing. I have two books in the series: The Technical Guide to Gas Blending and The Expedition and Diving Operations Handbook. Both are geared to serious/professional diver. The other books I've seen in the series tend to be skewed to the more advanced diver as oppposed to the newbie but i haven't seen the whole series. I pretty sure though that they have titles in the series aimed at all levels of divers.

Hope this helps,
Sam

 

[bwollard]

This book is old. It is out of date. There has been in my opinion, so much published about cave diving and training that most of this stuff every diver should know by the time they have completed their AOW and know not to do these things without further training.

 

[large_diver]

Try "The Terrible Hours" by Peter Maas. Very interesting book about the rescue of a submarine sunk of the US East Coast (New Hampshire) just before WWII. Amazing what these guys did back then given the state of scuba technology.

Here is a link to a description of the book on Amazon.com (scroll down to the bottom of this web page for synopsis)

Amazon

Enjoy!