Books about diving the waters around Wreck Valley

[TTSkipper]

I know that someone else started talking about this elsewhere but I figured I would start a new thread.

I have read:
Long Island Shore Diver - Short descriptions and directions to about 60 dive sites on Long Island with some pictures and sketches

The Last Dive - About the father/son team who died trying to identify a U-Boat off the cost of NJ. The book goes into a little detail about the history of tech diving.

I am in the process of reading:
Fatal Depth - A book about the 3 divers who died in 1998 diving on the Doria. I am only about a 3rd of the way through it but there is a lot of detail about how the ship sank along with some pictures of her going down. I have just started to get into the details of the dives.

I left adding any real reviews to the descriptions but please feel free to and also to add other books you have read about diving in the area.

Ben

[grouchyturtle]

New Jersey Beach Diver
same as the first book you mentioned, same author, only NJ site

Wreck Valley
same as above, once again same author, info on a lot of the wrecks from the top of LI to the bottom of NJ

[ScottyK]

Complete Wreck Diving by Henry Keats and Brian Skerry

Although you can't tell from the title, the two guys who wrote it did most of their diving in Wreck Valley. The book draws most of it's information from local sources and is a great "how to" guide.

Primary Wreck Diving Guide by Gary Gentile.

Gary is the godfather of northeast wreck diving....nuff said!

Neutral Buoyancy by Tim Ecott.

This book has nothing to do with wreck valley, but is a must read for any diver. It covers the history, sensations and very essence of diving like no other book out there. Even non divers would love this one.

[docmartin]

i read fatal depth, too. not bad BUT deep descent covers the same and more plus the author is a diver with doria experience. reading fatal depth you can really tell what the author clearly states: he does not dive.

[BOATS313]

Deep descent was a good read.
I went out to buy NJ beach diver and have had no luck. I guess it's out of print, does anyone know of a good source for this book?
Thanks, Boats

[SpyderTek]

I own this book also.
New Jersey Beach Diver, The Diver's Guide to New Jersey Beach Diving Sites (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0961616784/qid=1067354430/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-4410226-3398216?v=glance&s=books)

He has a CD-ROM program (which I own) available for all of Wreck Valley area also. I've seen it for sale at just about every Scuba Swap Meet that I have ever been to so far. I've also gone diving with Mr. Berg and can attest to his knowledge and skill in the local region.

Spydertek

[padiscubapro]

SpyderTek once bubbled...
I own this book also.
New Jersey Beach Diver, The Diver's Guide to New Jersey Beach Diving Sites (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0961616784/qid=1067354430/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-4410226-3398216?v=glance&s=books)

He has a CD-ROM program (which I own) available for all of Wreck Valley area also. I've seen it for sale at just about every Scuba Swap Meet that I have ever been to so far. I've also gone diving with Mr. Berg and can attest to his knowledge and skill in the local region.

Spydertek

Spydertek,
What happened to you this year??

We had some real good dives on Dan's Boat... Unfortunately ever dive at thye last part of the season was called due to weather..

boats313:

most of dan's books are available through
www.northeastaquanauts.com

Our club uses Dan's boat alot and Louie was part of Dan's film crew and occasionaly mates for him..

Joe

[grouchyturtle]

Ok we have the shore dives and boat dives covered.

Does anyone know of any books about all the inland diving in this area (Quarries, Lakes, Rivers, etc)?

[BOATS313]

Thanks for the link Joe
I'm going to try and order some books after work.

Eric

[XJae]

I don't know of any not already mentioned.

I did recently finish 'In Harm's Way", an excellent book about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.

I'm almost finished reading 'Into Thin Air', about climbing Mt. Everest. - Thanks Scott.

[BOATS313]

It looks like we all share the same intrest in books. In harms way great. I also read a book about the SS Central America, I can't rember the name of it. They went into great detail about how they salvaged all of the gold. Not much diving on that wreck due to the depth though.

[ScottyK]

XJae once bubbled...

I'm almost finished reading 'Into Thin Air', about climbing Mt. Everest. - Thanks Scott.

Is that me you're thanking? Did I recommend that one to you?


That's probably the best "non diving" adventure book I've ever read. Try his other book called "Into the Wild". It's pretty good too.

[XJae]

Is that the Krakauer book about the guy who went 'Grizzly Adams' in Alaska?
If that's it, I was reading the dust jacket the other day, it looked good.

Yeah, not me specifically but, you who threw it out there in the 'where ru at 1/2 an ata' thread. (I never got to finish my related chamber argument that sparked in the lesbian thread, cause it was deleted.)

Anyway, I'm up to the part where Weathers wonders into camp after being left for dead. It doesn't look good for him.

[ScottyK]

XJae once bubbled...
Is that the Krakauer book about the guy who went 'Grizzly Adams' in Alaska?
If that's it, I was reading the dust jacket the other day, it looked good.

Yes it is.



Yeah, not me specifically but, you who threw it out there in the 'where ru at 1/2 an ata' thread. (I never got to finish my related chamber argument that sparked in the lesbian thread, cause it was deleted.)

LOL- Man, some threads can get convoluted after a while. I do think I remember now :)



Anyway, I'm up to the part where Weathers wonders into camp after being left for dead. It doesn't look good for him.

I won't spoil it for you then.