Shadow Divers

[skeet]

DEEP DESCENT and LAST DIVE were good but SHADOW DIVERS was awesome.

 

[wstein]

OK, after reading all the glowing reviews, I am interested in the both books. Going to have to sneak off and get copies.

 

[Oceanseleven]

Did anyone see that History channel program the other night about the ships sunk in the battle of Pearl Harbor. It was hosted by some african american actor who's name I can't remember. He is an avid diver and was in Navy Seals and Major League. Anyway is was very informative and interesting.

 

[JustAddWater]

I've read Deep Descent, Last Dive, and am currently reading Shadow Divers. I'm enjoying Shadow Divers, and recommend it to those interested in the diving/history genre of books. It further completes the pictures of well known names in the diving community, such as; Chatterton, Kohler, and Nagle.
I'm not sure what is next on my dive reading list, but am considering Cave Divers (I think that is the title)
Non Diving related, the biography of John Paul Jones is on my Christmas wish list.

 

[Vie]

I'm not sure what is next on my dive reading list, but am considering Cave Divers (I think that is the title)

Try Sheck Exley’s “Cavern Measureless to Man” and Bill Stone/Barbara Am Ende’s “Beyond The Deep”. Bill Stone’s book is not so well written but is very interesting and is not a purely diving book. If you want a very beautifully written account of recreational diving, try Stephen Harrigan’s “Water and Light”.

 

[Kim]

I bought both The Last Dive and Shadow Divers through Amazon Japan. Unfortunately I made a slight mistake in the order and received The Last Dive as a book, but Shadow Divers as a slightly abridged audio cassette version!:11: The Last Dive I enjoyed immensely - Shadow Divers I still have to listen too. I can be soooo dumb sometimes!

 

[Dive-aholic]

Try Sheck Exley’s “Cavern Measureless to Man” and Bill Stone/Barbara Am Ende’s “Beyond The Deep”. Bill Stone’s book is not so well written but is very interesting and is not a purely diving book. If you want a very beautifully written account of recreational diving, try Stephen Harrigan’s “Water and Light”.

Read Beyond the Deep. I agree, not so well written, but it definitely got me hyped for cave diving--there's goes more money. I don't think I want to go through everything they did just to get to the water, though. I think I'll stick to the Florida caves. Sheck's book is next. It's sitting on my coffee table now. I'll have to look into Harrigan's book.

 

[Oceanseleven]

I read Deep Decent, The Last Dive, and Shadow Divers. They were all great books. I have to admit I liked Shadow Divers the most. One thing that puzzles me though. In the Last Dive which was about the Rouses it says that when the rescue chopper was taking them off the boat that Chatterton was arguing with the rescue diver to take Chrissy's father too because they told Chrissy that his father was still alive and that if they left him it would demoralize Chrissy and he might give up fighting and not make it. Then in Shadow Divers talking about the same incident it says that Chatterton was arguing with the rescue diver to leave Chrissy's dad because it would take another twenty minutes to pick him up too and he was already dead and it would lessen the chances that Chrissy would make it. So what really happened? Did Chatterton argue to take Chrissy's father or to leave him? I don't know why but it has been bugging me and I have to know.

 

[mike_s]

Did anyone see that History channel program the other night about the ships sunk in the battle of Pearl Harbor. It was hosted by some african american actor who's name I can't remember. He is an avid diver and was in Navy Seals and Major League. Anyway is was very informative and interesting.

Dennis Haysbert was his name. I reconzied him from Major Leauge.

He played Pedro Cerano in Major League. I love his one liners in that move. like "Bats like hats. Keep bats warm at night" when he take a golf club cover to keep his bat warm.

More recently he played the President on the tv show "24".

I never realized he was in was the guy in Navy Seals (movie). His appearance changes much with the rolls he plays with hair cuts and accent, etc.

According to http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371660/ he's been in over 40 movies nad TV shows.

 

[teknitroxdiver]

I've read Last Dive, Shadow Divers, Fatal Depth, Beyond the Deep, and Iron Coffins (not a diving book but relevant and a great read) and a few others. Most are great, a few that are written by non divers and that really shows in some details and hurts the overall story. I'm about to order a few more diving books off Amazon.com, including a couple of Sheck Exley's books.

I don't have it handy here but I think that Fatal Depth is the only one with color pictures in it, which is a bonus. It's nice to see the routine things of a Doria dive in full color, especially when your not going to be doing any diving for a few months....