Abbeville Press Dive Guides are noted for their accuracy, design, stunning photographs and superb maps.
Adventurous Traveler Bookstore offers an extensive collection of outdoor adventure books and maps for locations in the U.S.A., Canada and throughout the world. You will find over 2,200 of their most popular titles listed in this database, with much more to come in the following months.
Airspeed Press of Warner, New Hampshire, publishes no-nonsense books for the serious divers, on Nitrox, trimixing, Regulator Repair and canister divelights. Current favorites include the underground techdiving classic, The Oxygen Hacker's Comapnion" and "Scuba Regulator Maintenance And Repair.
Best Publishing Company , of Flagstaff, Arizona, was founded in 1966 and has become one of the largest publishers of diving, underwater, and hyperbaric medicine books in the world. Their web site offers a small sampling of the diverse selection of topics they offer. They stock over 300 titles in all!
Dive Plan is a set of 20 maps on 'slates' and provides comprehensive information on key dive sites in the northern Red Sea - from the Tiran Straits to Ras Mohammed. Each Dive Plan map shows depths, current, GPS location, dive type and mooring points. The location of caves, wrecks and coral heads are revealed as well as snorkelling access and recommended diver experience. The 16 page guide has a description of each dive site, travel times by boat and road, hours of daylight, temperature charts and other essential information. Clear symbols make the maps easy to follow and guide the diver for greater safety, awareness and enjoyment.
divingeBooks is a comprehensive library of electronic books or eBooks dedicated to travel, outdoor sctivities and sdventure.
Down Time: Great Writers on Diving is a new collection of outstanding writing on the underwater experience, featuring Michael Crichton, Dave Barry, Peter Benchley, Tim Cahill and many other authors. Jean-Michel Cousteau says: "Divers often struggle to put their experiences into words, but here are the voices of well-known writers who have ventured into the underwater world. They turn diving into a journey of the mind and spirit."
Hammerhead Press of Santa Barbara, California, publishes a wide variety of scuba diving books. Their site provides free information on their site on a variety of diving topics. Recent titles include California Lobster Diving and Diving in High-Risk Environments.
Historical Diving Publications features books on the history of diving by industry pioneers.
NOAA Diving Manual, Diving for Science and Technology - 4th Edition is one of the most detailed diving references available. The new version has been greatly expanded and completely revised to reflect the diversified tasks NOAA divers carry out underwater. The publication is the result of a collaborative partnership between NOAA, the National Technical Information Service and Best Publishing Company.
North of the Caribbean 2000 features beautiful up-close pictures of Caribbean reefs and the animals that dwell there. Along with each photo is a brief description of the dive site as well as camera specifications. In addition, each calendar month features suggested dive sites and local attractions of a different Caribbean island. Dive festivals and trade shows are also noted along with web sites to contact for information.
Oceans Bookstore & Gallery of Los Angeles, California, carries one of the largest collections of ocean art and books, as well as cards, videos and CD-ROMS. Check out their site for a guide ot the gallery and images, as well as FAQs and articles on underwater photography.
Photography Above & Below by John Denning is a guide for the NAUI Underwater Photography Specialty courses John taught, published exclusively on the web. This document is in a form where you can save it to your hard drive and view it as desired. It's now in 5 parts. All images in this guide were taken or created by John over the last 15 years or more. Most if not all were taken in California waters, either in the Monterey Bay Area, or in the Channel Islands off of Santa Barbara. Most if not all were taken with a Sea&Sea Motermarine SE camera with an Ikelite Substrobe MV.
ScubaDivingBooks.com strives to bring you the very best in books and videos related to all aspects of the sport of scuba diving. Whether you are looking fordive travel guides, a book on the techniques of shipwreck diving, or simply a good book to learn more about deep diving, we have it! Our philosophy is simple: If you can't be in the water diving- the next best thing is to be reading about diving!
Sea Challengers Natural History Books, Etc.: More than 200 titles of Natural History books are represented in this on-line catalog. Order a book on Marine Mammals, Invertebrates, Reptiles, Marine Fishes, Freshwater Fishes, Plants and Algae. Children's and Aquarium Books as well. Check our Book of the Month. Find that ID book you've been wanting. Sea Challengers is both publisher and distributor of quality books and guides.
South Pacific Organizer : The author of the South Pacific Handbook answers frequently asked questions about 11 South Pacific countries and introduces his four Pacific travel handbooks.
theblue is a coffee table book celebrating our planet's oceans. This book is on behalf of UNESCO's IOC and features the work of some of the world's greatest ocean authors and underwater photographers: Buzz Aldrin, Jean Michel Cousteau, David Bellamy, Sylvia Earle, Valerie Taylor, Tim Severin, Martha Holmes, Bob Halstead, Julian Partridge. The UN IOC Trust for Ocean Research will receive a donation from the sale of every copy.
Thirteenth Beach , facing the Southern Ocean in Australia, was the setting for a chance meeting between two strangers who still do not know each other's names. But that meeting led to this fast-paced, factual, account spanning more than thirty years' underwater adventure around the world.
Women Can Find Shipwrecks Too is the true story of a young woman who starts out as an innocent bystander and ends up becomming a modern-day female buccareer. For 17 years she lead expeditions to find sunken spanish galleons in the Bahamas and South America and found more than she bargained for. It's treasure hunting from a woman's point of view written with humor, wit and honesty.
