Scuba-based story novels?

[SStrecker]

Does anyone have any recommendations for good scuba-based story novels?

 

[archman]

The Deep.

It's excellent.

 

[MB]

Does anyone have any recommendations for good scuba-based story novels?

Clive Cussler has a series of adventure novels featuring Dirk Pitt. Not a bad way to spend a few hours when water conditions keep you out of the water.

 

[Hoyden]

Kathy Brandt has a mystery series about a police diver (female protagonist) set in the BVIhttp://www.ksbrandt.com/:
Swimming with the Dead
Dark Water Dive
Dangerous Depths

David Poyer has a mystery/action series about a diver (male protagonist) who ranges from commerical diving to cave diving http://www.esva.net/~davidpoyer/tiller.htm:

Hatteras Blue
Louisiana Blue
Bahamas Blue
Down to a Sunless Sea

Glynn Marsh Alam has a mystery series set in FL's cave and swamp country about a diver (female protagonist) who occasionally works for the sheriff http://www.glynnmarshalam.com/GMA.Publications.html

Dive Deep and Deadly
Deep Water Death
Cold Water Corpse
Bilge Water Bones

Arthur C Clarke – science fiction - The Deep Range 1957 – about a sub driver who is a “whale shepherd.” The Ghost from the Grand Banks 1990 about the race to raise the Titanic

Michael Reaves and Steve Perry – science fiction – Dome 1987 – life in undersea dome

Lee Hoffman – science fiction - The Caves of Karst 1969 – underwater/cave miners who have been adapted to breathe underwater

Peter Watts – science fiction – rifter series 1999-2005, cool website – http://www.rifters.com/ – people genetically modified to live at the bottom of the sea – Starfish, Maelstrom, Behemoth

 

[jrowland]

I've personally enjoyed (in addition to the some mentioned above) would be the books written by Tom Morrisey, who has currently 2 scuba-based fiction books out and another coming out in a couple of months.

Including
Yucatan Deep (Out now)
Deep Blue (Out now)
Dark Fathom (1/1/06)

 

[DiveGolfSki]

Does anyone have any recommendations for good scuba-based story novels?

Not sure if looking for fiction or non-fiction but I'll concentrate on non-fiction. My favorites are:

Shadow Divers (soon to be a movie by Ridley Scott)
The Last Dive
Deep Descent

There's been a thread on this:

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=86821

Post #11 will give you a whole host of ideas.

 

[WetDawg]

I send this out to all my students once they complete open water:

The Sea Hunters : True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks -- by Clive Cussler
The Sea Hunters II -- by Craig Dirgo, Clive Cussler

Submerged: Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team
by Daniel Lenihan

Deep Descent : Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
by Kevin F. McMurray

The Last Dive : A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths by Bernie Chowdhury
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson
Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria by Joe Haberstroh
The Rapture of the Deep: And Other Dive Stories You Probably Shouldn't Know by Michael G. Zinsley
THE LAST OF THE BLUE WATER HUNTERS
By Carlos Eyles

Secret Seas
By Carlos Eyles

Of releated interest:

The Helldivers' Rodeo : A Deadly, Extreme, Scuba-Diving, Spear Fishing Adventure Amid the Offshore Oil-Platforms in the Murky Waters off the Gulf of Mexico (Hardcover)
by Humberto Fontova

Longitude : The True Story Lone Genius Who Solved Greatest Scientific Problem his Time (Paperback)
by Dava Sobel

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by Nathaniel Philbrick

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (Paperback)
by Steven Callahan

 

[drm]

Click here to check out a bunch of scuba diving novel type books...as well as many others.

Dave Miner
www.divingindepth.com

 

[SStrecker]

Thank you. Many interesting and SB recommended choices will be explored. Much of life is a long series of SI segments awaiting a good read.

 

[freedom121103]

Does anyone have any recommendations for good scuba-based story novels?

Yes, Glynn Alam Marsh writes great scuba diving mysteries. Also Kathy Brandt is good too.