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From destination books through to funny anecdotes about learning to scuba dive, our scuba diving library has a book for you.

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Diver Down: Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them Paperback

£9.56

A compilation of Stories of when scuba diving goes wrong, the mistakes made and what we can learn from them. This book is an important read for anyone who has been scuab diving for a little while but still feels they have a lot to learn.

100 Dives of a Lifetime: The World's Ultimate Underwater Destinations Hardcover – Illustrated

£17.99

Explore 100 breathtaking scuba diving sites around the world--from the cenotes of Mexico to the best wreck in Micronesia--through stunning National Geographic photography, expert tips, and cutting-edge travel advice.

The Complete Diver: The History, Science and Practice of Scuba Diving Paperback

£18.69


The Complete Diver: The History, Science and Practice of Scuba Diving is a comprehensive guide to the sport of recreational scuba diving. It is an important book not just for beginning divers and instructors but also for all who are interested in diving, marine science and ocean exploration.

Amazing Diving Stories - Incredible Tales from Deep Beneath the Sea (Amazing Stories) Paperback

£9.35


This collection of true diving stories makes for compelling reading for all divers. Enjoy classic tales of this extreme watersport, from thrilling wreck discoveries to encounters with the bizarre and the beautiful. There are stories of death and disaster, as well as bravery and triumph.

Lost Wife, Saw Barracuda: True Stories from a Sharm El Sheikh Scuba Diving Instructor

£4.99


John thought his new life abroad would be simple; go to work and teach people to scuba dive.
How wrong he would be. His accounts are genuine, enlightening and seriously funny. You’ll find a laugh on nearly every page.

 

Dorset Dives: A Guide to Scuba Diving Along the Jurassic Coast Paperback

£14.55


Let Dorset Dives take you on a personal journey to 50 of the greatest dive sites the Dorset coastline has to offer. Here, there are so many opportunities to get wet and against one of the country's most beautiful backdrops - the Jurassic Coast. A UNESCO World Heritage site, the Dorset coast boasts seriously good scallop diving, sheltered, shallow or deep wrecks, scenic reef dives, easy shore dives and daring drifts.

SCUBA STORIES: Real life diving dramas

£3.89


Scuba diving is a dangerous sport. Even with the best training and attention to detail things can still go wrong. This book is a collection of real life stories from the ever popular 'IT HAPPENED TO ME' column in DIVE magazine where divers, who have got themselves into perilous situations, describe how they reacted and what actions they took to ensure they lived to tell the tale.

 A WALK ON THE DEEP SIDE 

 £5.99


  Fully revealed. The crazy, dangerous and golden era of extreme deep scuba diving. A fascinating behind-the-scenes story of man’s quest for the abyss.

One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits Paperback

£7.56


One Breath is a gripping and powerful exploration of the strange and fascinating sport of freediving, and of the tragic, untimely death of America's greatest freediver. A competitive freediving-a sport built on diving as deep as possible on a single breath-tests the limits of human ability in the most hostile environment on earth. The unique and eclectic breed of individuals who freedive at the highest level regularly dive hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface, reaching such depths that their organs compress, light disappears, and one mistake could kill them.

Deco for Divers: A Diver's Guide to Decompression Theory and Physiology (2nd Edition)

£19.99


Fully updated and revised. Award winning Deco for Divers provides a comprehensive overview of the principles underlying decompression theory. Mark Powell has written a book that for the first time allows the average diver to fully understand the principles behind this fascinating aspect of diving. This book bridges the gap between introductory books and source scientific information. What I wanted was an intermediate overview that went into more detail but wasn't written for academics or researchers.

The Loonliness of a Deep Sea Diver: David Beckett, My Autobiography

£4.99 


Imagine living in a box at the bottom of the sea for a month at a time. Locked away in a saturation chamber, plumbed to depths of more than 500 feet, this has been David Beckett's love, life and work for all his adult life. Destined to become a pig farmer in the late 1960s, a twist of fate saw David become an air diver, and within a short space of time he progressed to saturation diving. He would brush with death on more than one occasion