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Do you want a coffee table book, an introductory-level text for budding biologists, or something that's specific for certain marine habitats (i.e. kelp forests)?
Marine Biology by Jeffery S. Levington or
Marine Biology: An ecological approach by James W. Nybakken
Both are used as introductory texts for undergraduate courses, both are good, though I prefer the one by Levington. It is a university text, but as I said it is introductory, so it is not any more technical/complicated than your average dive manual. One of them comes with a CD-ROM, but not sure which.