Scuba books worth reading?

[Midnight Star]

Yes, it's amazing that any of them survived:11: --- breathing pure oxygen at depth, entangled in wrecks diving alone, breathing contaminated air from industrial compressors, and all the time hiding their discoveries from the Nazis (and no computers, no dive tables, no wings, nothing but guts.)

I remembered reading about how they brought about the birth of the "buddy" system, and where the "contaminated air" (CO from compressor exhaust) almost killed them during a dive - they thought they were narced (extrememly narced) and barely had the strength, and luck to get out. Remember when one pushed the narc limit to a fatal extreme ... it was over 350' if I remember it right, and they had a picture where he wrote his name at that depth, it looked like a few scratches of a pen, but nothing remotely legible.

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Mike.

 

[Thalassamania]

NOAA Manual is number one. International Code of Practice for Scientific Diving is a close second. USN Manual is a close third. First two from Best Books, third can be found in PDFs on the web. USN has a good sat section.

 

[Midnight Star]

NOAA Manual is number one. International Code of Practice for Scientific Diving is a close second. USN Manual is a close third. First two from Best Books, third can be found in PDFs on the web. USN has a good sat section.

Are you referring to this online manual?

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Mike.

 

[Thalassamania]

Perhaps the best diving book I've ever read:

The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History by Peter Maas

 

[Thalassamania]

Are you referring to this online manual?

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Mike.

No, but that looks better organized than the site I last saw it on. Thanks!

 

[Kevrumbo]

Good compilation on "Incidents/Lessons Learned":
http://www.amazon.com/Diver-Down-Michael-R-Ange/dp/0071445722

 

[Midnight Star]

No, but that looks better organized than the site I last saw it on. Thanks!

Your very welcome.

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Mike.

 

[H2Andy]

already a great list .... definetely:

NOAA Diving Manual
Navy Diving Manual (on-line)
DIR: The Fundamentals of Better Diving

and a bunch of general diving books, from which you can pick up a lot of info:

The Silent World (the first one ever written)
The Last Dive
Deep Descent
Dark Descent (not as good as Deep Descent)
Shadow Divers

modern diving really benefitted a lot from the adavances made by cave divers, so reading cave diving history is a plus:

The Cave Divers
Submerged (starts with cave diving, goes off onto archeological diving)
Caverns Measureless to Man
Beyond the Deep (a very under-rated book)


enjoy!

 

[shellig]

I liked "The Certified Diver's Handbook" written by ScubaBoard member LouisianaDiver
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=55614 is a thread discussing it.
His website is http://claycoleman.tripod.com/id121.htm

 

[Thalassamania]

Other books worth having:

Dive Like a Pro: 101 Ways to Improve Your Scuba Skills and Safety by Robert N. Rossier

I Thought I Saw Atlantis: Reminiscences of a Pioneer Skin and Scuba Dive by Albert A Tillman

Scuba Equipment Care and Maintenance by Michael B. Farley (dated, but good)

Scuba Regulator Maintenance and Repair: A Complete All-Makes Guide to Scuba Regulator Servicing, Troubleshooting, Repair and Tuning by Vance Harlow and Steven W. Lindblom (more than you ever wanted to know)

Basic Scuba by Fred M. Roberts

The New Science of Skin and Scuba Diving: A Project of the Council for National Cooperation in Aquatics by Council for National Cooperation in Aquatics (Paperback - 1980) (what the heck, I was a contributor)

Scuba: Safe and Simple by John Reseck

Diving Medicine for Scuba Divers by Carl Edmonds, Bart McKenzie, and Robert Thomas

Scuba Life Saving by Albert Pierce

The University of Michigan manual of safe practices for scientific/academic scuba diving (MICHU-SG) by Lee H Somers

Stress and Performance in Diving by Arthur J. Bachrach and Glen H. Egstrom

Fireside Diver by Bonnie Cardone

Diving Into Darkness: The Elements of Safe Night Diving by Robert N. Rossier

Last of the Blue Water Hunters, Revised by Carlos Eyles

The inner experience of diving: A beginner's guide to the water planet by Carlos Eyles

Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans by Sylvia Earle