Book recommendation??

[mark01]

I'm looking for the next book to read. I'm finishing my Rescue cert in the next few weeks and am just finishing Powell's Deco for Divers. I've really developed an appetite for the science of diving though I consider myself a recreational diver with no vision of doing anything on the technical side of this sport. What have you read that increased your understanding of the sport, helped you sharpen your skills, or just plain helped you become a better diver?

TIA

Mark

 

[Graeme Tolton]

Go to the NSS online bookstore and buy Caverns Measureless to Man, by Sheck Exley.
When I bought it, I could not put it down.

Sheck exley was one of the pioneers of cave diving who developed a lot of the safety practices that still exist today. The book starts at the beginning of his diving career, progressing through his entire diving career, with many exciting stories of cave and deep diving adventure. The book will give you a good appreciation of what the limits of diving are and why they are. It is not overly technically worded, so a non diver could even enjoy this book.

 

[knowone]

Then do Dave Shaw and Steve Berman.