Diving books recomendation

[emoreira]

Hi, with the e-book + iPad and the various e-readers (Kindle, Bluefire, Kobo, iBooks, Bookshout, Play books, etc) available, reading books has never been so easy and accesible everywhere.
I became an avid reader.
I've read a lot of diving related books, here is my list :

Deep Into Deco - Asser Salama
Deco for Divers - Mark Powell
A WALK ON THE DEEP SIDE - John Kean
Mystery of The Last Olympian: Titanic's Tragic Sister Britannic - Richie Kohler, Charlie Hudson
Fatally Flawed - The Quest to be Deepest - Verna van Schaik
Diving Medicine for SCUBA Divers - Dr Carl Edmonds
Diving into de past - Robert F. Burgess
Deep Descent - Kevin F. McMurray
Wakulla Bones - Jeff Bauer
Where Divers Dare: The Hunt for the Last U-Boat - Randall Peffer
The Cavern Kings - Jeff Bauer
The Cave Divers - Robert F. Burgess
El Hombre Subacuático - Manual de fisiologia y riesgos del buceo - Francisco Verjano Diaz
The Wall: Chronicle of a Scuba Trial - Martin Lawrence
The Great Buoyancy Scam - And how to avoid it - John Kean
El secreto sumergido: Aventura y misterio en la Patagonia - Cristian Perfumo
Scuba Professional: Insights into Sport Diver Training & Operations - Simon Pridmore
Lost Wife, Saw Barracuda - True Stories from a Sharm El Sheikh Scuba Diving Instructor - John Kean
Under Dark Waters: The Life and Distressed Times of a Commercial Diver - Scott A. Kilgore
Setting the Hook: A Diver's Return to the Andrea Doria - Peter M. Hunt
Dark Descent - Kevin F. McMurray
The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths - Bernie Chowdhury
Shadow Divers - Robert Kurson
Into the Lion's Mouth - Michael Smart
Sealab - Ben Hellwarth

Some of them are in spanish, my native language.
Some are historic books, some novels, some technical.
Some are great, some not so.

Also some e-books have a free sample chapter. If the reading is interesting, you can buy the book.
I've tried some like :

Papa topside
Ocean Gladiator
Raising the death
Trapped Under the sea
Blind Descent
Descent into darkness
Bottom time
Sunken treasure
Almost tranquilo
What your scuba diving course does not tell you
Seeking transformation
Darkness below
The first 130 feet

They didn't capture me in the first chapter like the previous.

I have access to some more, but those have no e-book format. Reading a traditional paper book is something I cannot do now (weight, bulk, things to carry, cross-references, dictionary, etc).

I'm subscribed to amazon books recommendations, but they send me over and over again the same books, though I have already bought them.

I'm interested in books related to diving history and progress.

I would love to read your recommendations.

 

[Akimbo]

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage Kindle Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage-ebook/dp/B0089EMLGK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1496707592&sr=1-1&keywords=blind+man's+bluff+the+untold+story+of+american+submarine+espionage

Mostly about submarines but diving is also a big part.

 

[JMBL]

If you're into real books also, I'd advise :

- any book by Hans Hass or Cousteau,
- the NOAA diving manual
- Navy Diver by Lonsdale
- Navy Frogmen by Lt Cmmder Douglas Fane

And that's only a few !

 

[Akimbo]

Free and in .pdf: US Navy Manual, Rev 7

More reference than light reading but the price is right.

 

[Compressor]

Great selection of books listed above.

 

[emoreira]

If you're into real books also, I'd advise :

- any book by Hans Hass or Cousteau,
- the NOAA diving manual
- Navy Diver by Lonsdale
- Navy Frogmen by Lt Cmmder Douglas Fane

And that's only a few !

NOAA diving manual, Yes, but it's a manual (yeah it's a book !) Great to study or to clear a question, but not a book like the others.
I'll check the rest.
Thanks

 

[charlier]

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage Kindle Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage-ebook/dp/B0089EMLGK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1496707592&sr=1-1&keywords=blind+man's+bluff+the+untold+story+of+american+submarine+espionage

Mostly about submarines but diving is also a big part.

Thanks for recommendation. The visits to the Sea of Okhotsk must of been nerve wrecking. It's hard to imagine working on the sea floor connecting cables to the bundle of communication sites. Using Bayes theorem for locating UW objects and constraining probabilities are all required reading for my graduate students.

 

[JMBL]

NOAA diving manual, Yes, but it's a manual (yeah it's a book !) Great to study or to clear a question, but not a book like the others.
I'll check the rest.
Thanks

A manual indeed, but very detailed and about all aspects of diving. Starts with a long chapter about diving history. According to me, the best diving manual and one of the best book about diving I've ever read.

 

[charlier]

NOAA diving manual, Yes, but it's a manual (yeah it's a book !) Great to study or to clear a question, but not a book like the others.
I'll check the rest.
Thanks

Emoreira do you have a PDF copy that you might share? Thanks charlie

 

[Compressor]

If he does not, I probably have one. Let me know.