Scuba Diving Books?
Question:I want to buy a friend of mine a book on scuba diving for his birthday--it has been something that he has always wanted to do. Any books that you would recommend would be great!
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The PADI or NAUI course manual is a waste of money to buy. If he takes the course it's included and there's no point really in studying ahead, as it really need to be gone through in a class room environment anyway. They also don't cover some aspects, like gear types and manufacturers for example.There are a number of books about scuba diving on the market, both about real divers, like The Last Dive (excellent read) and Diver Down (accident prevention) Travel books like The Scuba Diver's Companion, listing dive sites and facilities world wide. A good general one is The Scuba Diving Handbook, a guide to salt and fresh water diving.
These are just a few of the ones I have kicking around on my shelves. If you really want to get serious and you think this pal might get into advanced diving later on, there's always the USN Diver Manual. It's usually a little hard to find an updated copy, but it covers just about every aspect on diving, diving medicine,mixed gas procedures, saturation diving and a slew of everything else. It's NOT light reading.
Good luck and hope your pal takes the plunge and visits MY office. :)
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If you're looking for a book on the actual technicals of diving, I recommend the PADI or NAUI Basic Open Water dive manuals. They can be found regularly on Ebay and are inexpensive if you get a used copy. If he decides to get certified to dive, his instructor will get him the most current publications.If you're looking for a non-fiction book that will build his interest in diving, I recommend "Shadow Divers".
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I recommend a book on shipwrecks from Kris Kohl if he is from the Great Lakes region, he is a popular diving author. Otherwise I heard the book Shadow Divers is a popular book about artifact retrival from an old Nazi ship or sub.I agree with Bob, stay away from manuals, theyre expensive an included in a course.
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The Last Dive was good, albeit chilling, and right now I'm in the midst of Shadow Divers, which is also chilling but both are excellent. I've also been reading parts of the Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving (some of it is too technical for my wee brain, I'll come back to it when I have to!). You might also go to your local dive shop and see if they could hook you up with current issues of scuba magazines, like DT Mag (Dive Training Magazine), Wreck Diving (or Diver, I can't remember), Scuba Diving magazine and put together a neat little package of things for him to look at.But why a book? Maybe you could hustle on down to the local dive shop and sign both of you up for a Discover Scuba course. They usually run about $15.00, and most of the time the shop will knock that off your course price if you sign up for the open water class with them. This way, you AND your friend could get a taste of scuba together. The only difficulties I foresee with this idea are that perhaps you don't want to or can't do this with him, and the medical form that, if either of you have any conditions like high blood pressure, will have to be signed off by your doctor.
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