The Sensational
The Last Dive by Bernie Chowdury
Classic ambulance chasing stuff, it’s a compelling page-turner. Everyone loves rubber-necking at a disaster scene, whether they admit it or not. On a serious note, this book, like others of its genre, brings home my #1 rule in scuba diving: complacency kills.
Deep Descent by Kevin McMurray
One of the more recently published books about diving and dying on the Andrea Doria. Another entertaining read.
Fatal Depth by Joe Haberstroth
Another one to feed our macabre interest in the Andrea Doria: not so much in how she sank, but how so many divers have perished in their nearly irrational pursuit of her wreck.
The Pleasure of the Dive
Neutral Buoyancy by Tim Ecott
One of my absolute favourites, Neutral Buoyancy is nevertheless not for everyone. Ecott’s interest in diving runs deep: it’s a spiritual experience for him, and he writes with a meditative and elegiac style. I connected with the book because I share that sense of spirituality about diving: for me, it’s the only time where I have no choice but to focus on the here and now…and I cherish every second of it.
The Instructional
Deep Diving by Brett Gilliam and Robert von Maier
These guys could’ve used a good spell checker. I was so distracted by the typos, I barely remember a thing they wrote.
NOAA Diving Manual by…you guessed it, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States. It’s the US Navy’s diving bible.
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