Recommendations on wreck diving books?

[KaliforniaDiver]

Hey all, I've gotten really excited lately reading in Sport Diver and Scuba Diving magazines about wrecks such as the SS Thistlegorm, RMS Rhone and the wrecks of Truk and the Bahamas and I was wanting to supplement this with a book of some sort. I've been looking for hours for a book on famous diveable wrecks around the world, but I am surprised to have come up with so few. The wreck diving books on Amazon are limited to mostly instructional books, books about shipwrecks in general (with no emphasis on diving them), or treasure hunting books. What I was hoping to find is some sort of a destination guide to some of the world's best wreck dives, the likes of which you would find in any of the leading diving magazines--location, depth, points of interest, layouts of the wrecks, and a few large photographs. The only two books I managed to find that fit what I was searching for (Wrecks: The World's Best Dives by Egidio Trainito and Top Wreck Dives of the World by Jack Jackson) have been flagged by one reviewer as being wildly inaccurate, but with no mention of a better reference. I am curious if anyone out there could recommend any sort of book that may suit my needs. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Stay wet!

 

[Lee Taylor]

Locations and biography on LOTS of shipwrecks, use coastal North Carolina dive stores ...

Diving the Graveyard of the Atlantic

If you want to learn to dive for treasure, these guys will teach you and take you ...

Diving for Treasure
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[CMAN]

Chris Kohl has fantastic books out that cover the Great Lakes. Some of the worlds best preserved shipwrecks are found here in our deep cold lakes.

 

[flw]

How about the Naval Wrecks of Scapa Flow, forget who it's by, there's another similar one by Rod Macdonald. Or for recoverery and fantastic tales - The Other Titanic by Simon Martin get's my vote - they essentially salvaged a white star liner thought at the time to be undiveable due to tidal streams using a squidgy boat and a lot of nerve or The Man how bought a navy - lots of pictures and the story of the salvage of the scapa flow wrecks

 

[b1gcountry]

Look into the magazine 'Wreck Diving'. It's not a book, but it will give you your fix. Back issues are available too.

 

[IDS_Bill]

Gary Gentile has some good stuff out (did I spell that right?).

Two obvious choices are The Last Dive and Shadow Divers too...

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Shipwrecks of Southern California - eBay (item 260494313258 end time Nov-19-09 13:49:28 PST)

Shipwrecks and Artificial reefs of Southern California - eBay (item 250515399492 end time Oct-26-09 14:27:27 PDT)

 

[rjack321]

Look into the magazine 'Wreck Diving'. It's not a book, but it will give you your fix. Back issues are available too.

Agree, much better than any other books I've seen. Mostly about the actual wrecks profiled, less about the diving mechanics.

 

[Kevrumbo]

Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amazon.com: The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse: The End of a Battleship Era? (9781844150755): Martin Middlebrook, Patrick Mahoney: Books
(The only diveable WWII Battleships that were sunk-in-action)

Amazon.com: The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (9780553381481): James D. Hornfischer: Books
(These wrecks are in the Philippine Trench and are un-divable, but still an epic story).

 

[KaliforniaDiver]

Thanks everyone, those are some great suggestions. I got a subscription for Wreck Diving Magazine a few weeks ago, but I know there aren't a whole lot of issues a year so I'm just itching to get my first issue. I'm assuming the next one will come in January? It seems like my best bet, all the books listed here, though interesting, seem to be a bit more specific than what I'm looking for now. However, the California wreck books interest me just because they're local for me. Thanks for the suggestions!