Dont Try this at home Sadly not all one's time can be spent on or under the water. Here are some suggestions from our members as to something you might like to to read to while away those hours spent 'decompressing' on the sofa.

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Click on the book for more information Deeper Into Diving (Second edition)- ISBN: 0959030638

Written by two doctors with many years diving experience, this book explains the physiological effects of diving and the theory behind the different diving tables: BSAC 88, RDP, RGBM, VPM, DCIEM. The second edition now includes sections on exotic gas mixes. If you are interested in the 'Whys' of things then I'd suggest that you get this book.







Click on the book for more information The Art of Diving - ISBN: 0954519922

More than just an attractive book for the coffee table this work captures through its text and images the essence of the pleasures and beauty that divers find beneath the waves.







Click on the book for more information Currents of Contrast - ISBN-10: 1770070869

Tom Peschak is a marine biologist and award-winning photographer. In this books he describes the life that can be found in the waters of South Africa - and it contains come of the most stunning photographic images that you'll ever see.







Click on the book for more information The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat - ISBN: 091897815

Although this book is more of a polemic than a piece of hard science its author, an award winning environmental journalist, knows what he's talking about and backs up his statements with fact. A century of industrial fishing has brought to the oceans the sort of change that normally occurs over geological time - a change that in this case is catastrophic. Divers are more aware of marine life than those people who never see beneath the seas surface, after reading this book you will be very much more aware that something has to be done and it has to be done soon.







Click on the book for more information Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World - ISBN: 0140287302

With a set of essays that weave a central narrative Tim Ecott give a vibrant insight into what some people get from the submarine world.









Click on the book for more information Diving and Subaquatic Medicine (Paperback) - ISBN: 978-0340806296

Not a cheap tome, but one of the best-written works of its type - readable by both trained medics and the average 'intelligent reader'.