By C. Colerman

This guide helps certified divers to create their own diving adventures without being confined to group dives. Any budget, any schedule, in local or distant waters. Plan dives to maximise enjoyment and safety, find great diving sites, master underwater rescue proceedures, shore and night diving tehcniques, explore wrecks, reefs and caves.

384pp Pb

By M. Ange

Designed to entertain with compelling stories and instruct with expert postmortem analysis.

The author has trained recreational and military divers and completed over 5,000 dives in both shallow and deep water. This book is based on his monthly column in Scuba Diving Magazine.

192pp Pb

By A. Mountain

Large format handbook with indispensable information on all aspects of scuba diving and snorkelling. Covers training and equipment through o photography and conservation.

160p 280x215mm 500 colour photos Pb

By A. Koher

Divers of all levels of experience will find their diving enhanced by this illuminating account of how to more fully experience the wonders of the underwater world, observe the secrets of the deep, engage in close encounters with marine life and take great photographs underwater.

160p 280x215mm 250 colour photos.
Pb

Ed. J. Jackson
The Worlds Best Pelagic Dives
This book features the best places in the world's oceans to dive with pelagic species. 'Pelagic' is a real buzzword and refers to the big fast creatures of the open waters, for example sharks, manta rays, dolphins, whales and barracuda. The book is strongly destination driven, but themed around the pelagic species.

160p 300x265mm 180 colour photos, 27 locator maps. Hb

By J.Jackson

Part aspirational, part instructional, this book is designed for competent divers wishing to push themselves to the limit. It covers diving with all types of sharks from the huge, but placid whale shark to the great white. Also covers cave and wreck diving, diving in strong currents and under ice, diving with other sea creatures such as jellyfish to stingrays.

160p 280x215mm 260 colour hotos. Hb

Ed. J. Jackson

This beautifully illustrated exploration of a fragile underwater wonderland from the dive sites of the Great Barrier Reef to the crystal waters of the Caribbean. It celebrates the remarkable variety of corals in our oceans and the invaluble contributions they make to their sensitive ecosystems. This book features maps and an illustrated coral gallery.

176p 300x265mm 270 colour photos. 54 maps. Hb

Great Writers on Diving.

A collection of 35 passages written by various novelists, poets, journalists etc. Each covers something that will resonate with divers - from the portrayal of a diver worried about running out of air to nitrogen narcosis to a search for treasure...

Pb. 285pp. 225mmx150mm

By T. Ecott

Days after his mothers funeral, Tim Ecott went scuba diving for the first time - and started a life long obsession. Tales of historical diving bells, Greek Sponge divers, World War Two frogmen and record setting breath hold divers are laced with travelogue detailing the authors own journey through an undersea world.

129x198mm 368pp Pb

By A. Ursell

GMTV's Amanda Ursell overcomes hydrophobia and claustrophobia to learn to dive in this humourous look at one woman's underwater journey of discovery. With chapters on crying underwater and learning that ‘most sharks are vegetarian’, this is an inspirational story of overcoming phobias and finding a new passion in the process.

160p 210x148mm 25 b/w illus. Pb

By D. Burnie
From mangrove swamp to ocean floor, mollusc to manatee, Atlantic Conveyer to Hurricane Katrina, unravel the mysteries of the sea in Ocean.

Marvel at the oceans’ power and importance to our planet.
Beautiful images of ocean life,
the latest developments in ocean exploration and satellite maps of the entire sea floor.
From the geology of the sea floor to the interaction between the oceans and atmosphere, the extraordinary diversity of marine life.

252x301mm 512pp Hb

By J. Bantin
2007
Whether you are looking for an introduction to the basics or advanced diving techniques to improve your skills, this indispensable guide will help you get the most out of your diving. Over 350 colour photographs and diagrams are combined with step by step exercises and practice programmes to explore all aspects of diving:
Choosing the right equipment
Techniques for entering the water
Ascending and descending safely
Finding your way underwater
Coping with currents and submerged hazards
Drift and wreck diving
Communicate with dive buddies
Finding the best dive sites around the world

With tips on safe diving, etiquette, and the basic science behind scuba diving.

Pb. 240x140mm 192pp 350 colour photos

RRP £9.99, our price £8.50

Communicate effectively underwater. Signs create pictures for your mind that represent ideas or objects in a familiar way that can be easily remembered.

This book contains 160 signs that will enable the diver to communicate virtually any message needed during a dive.

Spiral bound. plastic cover. 103pp 100x160mm

For anyone who is considering a career in commercial diving or simply wishes to understand many of the techniques used by professional divers.

The book covers all aspects of the job starting with the initial training through to what is required to move on to a supervisory position.
Covers - How to select a commercial diving school.
What skills are need as a commercial diver.
How to get a job.
Working as a diver.
Personal tools needed for diving and tending.
How to work with tools underwater.
Rigging for the diver.
Becoming a diving supervisor.

Pb. 161pp 180x250mm