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Mark Y · 07-28-2003, 09:32 AM,

Looking for some good scuba-related books. I've read 'The Last Dive' and a few others. Wondering what you'd recommend and why you'd recommend it. ;D

Gramps · 07-28-2003, 10:26 AM,

Depends on what your interested in. Tons of dive site review books on Fiji and the like as well as "how to" books out there. Personally, I dig historical, biography type stuff. Check out "Deep Descent : Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria" by Kevin McMurray and "Submerged:Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team" by Daniel Lenihan. Both are pretty cool books that are good page turners. I just re-read "Deep Decent" just for kicks and found it as fun as the first time.

Mark Y · 07-28-2003, 12:22 PM,

Thanks for the info. I've ordered "Deep Descent" but don't have it yet. I am interested in any dive related books, but mostly historical / "true-story" type books.

So if anyone else would like to recommend a book or two, please do.

buttons · 07-28-2003, 01:32 PM,

If you like history, read "Descent into Darkness". It's written by one of the navy divers responsible for the recovery of the ships attacked in Pearl Harbor. It's an amazing story of what these men went through. As for fiction try "Bright Star" and "Torchlight" by Robert Louis Stevenson III.
Wendy

FMT · 07-28-2003, 10:05 PM,

Or, as I commonly refer to it, "fatal descent."
See the pictures in the book to know what I mean.
There is also a new book out (which I can't remember
the title of) which goes into detail about diving the
Doria and more specifically about the adventures
of the Seeker (or the "Seeker of death" if you
have read "The Last Dive").
T

davisj · 07-30-2003, 10:35 AM,

"The Last Dive" and "Deep Decent" are two very entertaining books. Other good books related to the physics of diving would be:

"Essentials of Deeper Sport Diving" John Lippmann
"Deep Diving " Brett Gilliam
"Solo Diving" Robert Von Maher

These books are great for increasing you knowlege of diving, from the physiological aspects to the technical.

Mark Y · 07-31-2003, 09:48 AM,

I've read "the Last Dive", an excellent read. I've "Deep Descent" on order from Amazon.

Do you know of any good Jacque Cousteau and/or other pioneer divers who may have wrote on the topic? I'll be going to the library, of course, to find some, but if you know of any more, let me know.

Thanks for the physics of diving recommendations. I'll look into them.

**freedivernd** · (This post was last modified: 07-31-2003, 08:32 PM by freedivernd.)

the only scuba diving book I've got is called "Free Diving", it's from back in the day when free diving meant you were not attached to the surface with a hose.. It was published back in 1955. It actually takes a very in-depth look at scuba diving at the time. Talks a lot about things you would think are more recent knowledge that I was surprised to see, since scuba was only about 25 years old at the time it was published. I see it on e-bay on occassion..
Fred

Freedive WI · 08-01-2003, 07:11 AM,

As I look on my shelf realize that I have tons of dive books broken up into different catagoires, manuals that go from nitrox/tirmix blending to DIR-F, shipwreck books of the Great Lakes, freediving books, dive travel books, background information books like "Oxygen and the Diver", plus, books that are just fun to read.

Under my "fun to read" catagory are some that have been mentioned, I really like Deep Decent, and some more to add like:

Beyond The Deep a story about Dr. Bill Sotne trying to use Cis-Lunar rebreahters to crack one of the deepest caves in the world.

Caverns Measureless to Man a sort of autobigraphy of Sheck Exley

Beyond Sport Diving A somewhat dated account of the deep air wreck divers on the East Coast.

Underwater Man A kind of history of Diving science by Dr. Joesph MacInnes.

The Last of the Bluewater Hunters this is a really cool book written by Carlos Eyles. Carlos has written a number of diving books that are all pretty good, bu tthis is my favoirte one of his. Besides talking about the history of spearfishing on the West Coast, it talks about his quest one summer to become a totally self-sufficient spearfisherman. He lives on a boat. spears fish to eat, and spears a few more to trade for potatoes, rice and other things.

I have many others to add to this that are bit more "out there", like Homo Delphinus, but these are the fun ones that any diver would like to read.

Jon

08-01-2003, 11:42 AM,

what is dir-f?