mbalmr
Contributor
One of my favorite "diving" books is Drowned Hopes by Donald Westlake. The essential plot of the story is, before being cought, a bank robber burries his loot in a town that is flooded when a reservoir was created while he was in prison. Anyway, he gets a team of non-diving criminals together to retrieve the money. They learn to dive and their first plan is to just follow an old map, walk along the bottom of the lake to where the money is an simply dig it up. Nothing goes according to plan and its all very funny. Westlake does a good job describing the diving scenes.
I'll second this, it was a great read!