Great Scuba Reads!

*Digital Underwater Photography   

 by Jill Heinerth

A comprehensive guide to digital underwater photography, techniques, equipment, editing & artistry. Written by acclaimed underwater photographer and 

film maker, Jill Heinerth.The manual includes tips, secrets and remarkable stories from her expeditions around the world. Scuba divers of all levels of experience and background will enjoy this easy to understand, full-color handbook. Techniques are demonstrated using Jill’s rich library of award-winning images.

*The Physics of Scuba Diving

  by Marlow Anderson

While exploring the wonders of scuba diving, this educational account teaches the scientific and mathematical principles associated with the sport. Explaining how water pressure affects divers and describing exponential growth and decay in this context, it will appeal not only to academics, but also to scuba instructors and divers. With countless computations and step-by-step justification of the mathematics of dive tables, this record is both informative and entertaining.

*The Ocean Speaks: A Photographic Journey of Discovery and Hope

  by Matt Porteous & Tamsin Raine

The Ocean Speaks brings together more than 45 ocean culture life enthusiasts who have taken ocean protection into their own hands, documenting the unknown and telling stories that aim to explore Earth’s most remote open oceans, with telling insights from the extraordinary heroes making new discoveries every day.

*Scuba Diving, Fifth Edition

  by Dennis Graver

The best-selling authoritative resource returns updated and better than ever. The most up-to-date informational source for experiencing secure, satisfying dives. Packed with full-color photographs and detailed diving instruction. The ideal companion for recreational divers, diving instructors, and students. Veteran instructor Dennis Graver shares the latest research, science, and recommendations as well as nearly 40 years of diving experience. He demystifies complex topics such as gas laws and physics and physiology of scuba.

*Underwater Photography Masterclass

  by Alex Mustard

There is an astonishing world just waiting to be photographed underwater. With marine biologist Dr. Alexander Mustard’s 30-years of experience, as your guide, you can learn all you need to know to explore the amazing creatures and landscapes that exist underwater. From information about diving equipment and cameras, to crucial advice on understanding and controlling light underwater, this book provides all the background you need before you take the plunge. Topics covered include wide-angle light, macro lighting, ambient light and macro techniques.  

*Women Underwater

  by Jill Heinerth & Renee Power

A comprehensive guide for women in Scuba Diving. The book engages women SCUBA divers with clear direction, intelligence, and sage advice about the remarkable adventures awaiting them underwater. With inspiring stories from female role models who have forged successful careers in various diving disciplines, this book provides detailed suggestions, tips, and hints regarding equipment choices, medical issues and the unique social factors challenging women in this male-dominated sport. Drawing on decades of experience as instructors, consultants and expedition leaders, co-authors Jill Heinerth and Renee Powers tackle topics for both recreational and technical divers. By women and for women, this book answers delicate questions about female health concerns and navigating the choppy waters of culture and gender issues. Generously illustrated with full color images, the book is additionally supported by dynamic media resources, keeping readers up-to-date about the latest innovations, equipment and opportunities for women divers.

*The Silent World 

  by Jacques Cousteau

The International Bestseller by the father of Underwater Exploration. Before becoming the man who introduced the world to the wonders of the sea through his beloved television series, Jacques Cousteau was better known as an engineer and the inventor of scuba. He chronicled his early days of underwater adventure in The Silent World - a memoir that was an instant. International Bestseller in 1954. National Geographic presented a 50th anniversary edition of this remarkable book, allowing readers to once again travel under the sea with Cousteau during the turbulent days of World War II.

*Scuba Diving Hand Signals:

Pocket Companion for Recreational Scuba Divers B&W by Lars Behnke

Proficiency in underwater communication is not only a vital part of scuba diving training, it also makes diving a much more enjoyable and safer experience. Scuba Diving Hand Signals intends to support beginning recreational scuba divers in learning underwater communication via hand signals. More than 240 commonly used gestures are illustrated and grouped into eight categories.

*Dive Atlas of the World 

  by Jack Jackson

An illustrated reference to the best sites. Explore the top dive sites around the world from Lawson Reef to the Red Sea to the Great Barrier Reef to the U.S, Virgin Islands. Described and photographed by experts, from well-known classics to sites which have only recently been discovered. Whether you favor muck diving and macro photography, wrecks, walls, reefs, caves, blue holes or the adrenaline rush of a high speed drift dive in a strong current, you will find well-written, clearly mapped accounts of the top places

where you can enjoy these dives.

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