 | Down Time: Great Writers on Diving
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $4.45 If you only get to carry one book with you on your dive trip, make it this one. A great anthology of dive articles, including history, humor, poetry, adventure and much more. My favorite!
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 | The Cave Divers by Robert F. Burgess
Buy used from: $17.94 Burgess writes so well that you get drawn in from the first page. I bought it at a dive shop and started reading it at a restaurant on a business trip, only to surface from my trance 2 hours later!
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 | The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths by Bernie Chowdhury
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $2.57 A great introduction to the world of advanced wreck diving, this account follows a father and son through their first forays into diving through their final, tragic dive on a Nazi U-boat. A must-read
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 | 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
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 A comprehensive account of the discovery and exploration of the U-869 off of NJ in 1990s. Extremely well-written. I highly recommend it.
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 | Caverns Measureless to Man by Sheck Exley
Buy new: $21.50 / Used from: $17.50 Sheck Exley's first-hand account of his early cave explorations. For those who haven't encountered Sheck before, he was one of the all-time greatest cave divers and a fascinating individual.
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 | Scuba Diving by Dennis K. Graver
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $4.50 A good overview of diving and dive theory. A great supplement to your open water dive manual.
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 | The Rapture of the Deep: And Other Dive Stories You Probably Shouldn't Know by Michael Zinsley
Buy new: $15.43 / Used from: $9.50 First-hand stories of living and diving in the pacific. Very entertaining.
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 | Silent World (NG Adventure Classics) by Jacques Cousteau
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $5.37 A classic read. Some of Couseau's attitudes are a bit dated, but it's fascinating to read about the invention of modern scuba.
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 | No Safe Harbor: The Tragedy of the Dive Ship Wave Dancer by Joe Burnworth
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $6.85 A first-person account of the Wave Dancer tragedy, in which 17 members of the Richmond Dive Club persished on a liveaboard during a hurricane. The author was on an adjacent liveaboard.
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 | Submerged: Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team by Daniel Lenihan
Buy new: $19.72 / Used from: $4.75 Very interesting book about underwater exploration of America's cultural resources.
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 | Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria by Kevin F. McMurray
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.50 A great introduction to the "Mt.Everest of Scuba Diving" and the divers who dive her.
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 | Dark Descent by Kevin F. McMurray
Buy used from: $2.73 A very interesting account of the wreck and exploration of the Empress of Ireland, a St. Lawrence River wreck.
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 | Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria by Joe Haberstroh
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $4.39 Another good book on the Andrea Doria
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 | The Helldivers' Rodeo: A Deadly, X-Treme, Scuba-Diving, Spearfishing, Adventure Amid the Off Shore Oil Platforms in the Murky Waters of the Gulf of Mexico by Humberto Fontova
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $1.67 Entertaining and insane! Diving for big game at the mouth of the Mississippi with divers in "cajun wetsuits" (thrift store polyester leisure suits!) Don't dive like these guys, but it's hilarious!
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 | Fireside Diver by Bonnie Cardone
Buy new: $13.56 / Used from: $0.61 Another very nice anthology of stories about divers and diving.
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 | Essentials of Deeper Sport Diving by John Lippmann
Buy used from: $4.83 Good introduction to deep diving and deco theory
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 | Complete Wreck Diving: A Guide to Diving Wrecks by Henry Keatts
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $10.32 A very nice discussion of wreck diving
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 | Deep Diving, Revised: An Advanced Guide to Physiology, Procedures and Systems by Bret Gilliam
Buy used from: $8.50 Another good introduction, with lots of anecdotes on the history of deep scuba diving
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 | Dennis Graver's 100 Best Scuba Quizzes by Dennis Graver
Buy used from: $9.99 A wonderful review of all of the things you should know as an advanced scuba diver
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 | Diving Guide to Underwater Florida, 11th Edition by Ned DeLoach
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $11.50 The classic guide to dive sites around Florida! Fresh and salt water, reefs, wrecks, fossil hunts, manatee swims, caverns and caves, this book has it all, as well as lots of info on operators.
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| Basic cave diving: A blueprint for survival by Sheck Exley
Sheck Exley's classic book on cave diving. Written when he was a teen, this little book changed the way people dived caves forever.
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| Doing it Right: The Fundamentals of Better Diving by Jarrod Jablonski
Buy used from: $122.47 Whether you like their attitudes or not, these guys have some very interesting things to say about diving and safety. A great little book. (pricing's screwy - you can get it for under @20)
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| Shipwrecks of North Carolina from Hatteras Inlet south (The Popular dive guide series) by Gary Gentile
Buy used from: $13.98 Gentile's popular dive guides are well-researched and very entertaining. They summarize the vital statistics of each wreck, give locations, and tell the story of the ships, both above and below water
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 | Shipwrecks of South Carolina and Georgia (Popular Dive Guide Series) by Gary Gentile
A great guide to the wrecks in these areas.
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 | Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World by Tim Ecott
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $7.00 A very interesting discussion of the history of diving, as well as a very good discussion of the Greek sponge divers of Tarpon Springs, FL
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