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Books on Scuba Diving

   

C-Life have made a careful selection of some of the most useful books and DVD's on Scuba Diving. Many other books can be purchased if you have a title for us to search for.



 Calenders
Wreck Diving Calendar 2008
Various
Our Price: £8.99
Pages
: 12 pages
Publication Date
: Oct 2006
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Calendars are 30 x 30cm square when folded, opening out to 30 x 60cm allowing ample room for messages on the bottom half with a full colour photograph for each month on the top half.
 Wrecks
Top Wreck Dives of the World
J Jackson
Our Price: £29.99
Pages :
160 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Oct 2007
Availability : New title available October 2007

BRAND NEW PUBLICATION………….

A combination of wars, bad weather and human error has left thousands of wrecks around the world. Wrecks are of interest to divers for a whole host of reasons: they are time capsules preserving the moment and living laboratories sheltering coral growths and communities of marine creatures. They also often present a challenge to divers, affording them valuable practice in negotiating difficult settings.

Top Wreck Dives of the World celebrates the most interesting examples from around the world, covering the full spectrum of sites-from shallow dives on artificial reefs and spectacular descents, to major wrecks such as the Lusitania, the Andrea Doria and the ship 'graveyards' of Scapa Flow and Chuuk. The book is organized regionally by ocean or sea, with the dives grouped according to the territorial waters in which they lie.


 
Shipwrecks from the Egyptian Red Sea
N Middleton

Our Price: £35.00

Pages : 160 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Sep 2006
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Provides scuba divers with their finest opportunity to explore the most outstanding collection of shipwrecks found anywhere in the world. No other country is able to boast such a fine assortment in a relatively confined area and in constant conditions of warm clear water. The wreck of the Thistlegorm has consistently remained the world's most visited dive site for the past ten years. This well researched and heavily illustrated work contains details of seventeen wrecks, ten of which have never been described or illustrated before in any book. A final chapter includes miscellaneous shipwrecks, providing a solid research base for any one wishing to know more of the story behind these epic sites. Each ship is described in detail and illustrated in its final glory, a narrative of each ship's last journey is provided as well as diving details - personally researched by the author - giving underwater descriptions of each vessel - from one end of the ship to the other. Finally, the artist's stunning impression of each shipwreck in its entirety concludes each individual ship's chapter.

 Logbooks - Recreational

Diving Log Book - Black Steel
Our Price: £15.99

Pages : 216 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Nov 2005
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A tough hardwearing log book designed specifically for today’s recreational diver. Two pages per dive, including a full page of ruled/graph section for notes and drawings. This new book is now even larger allowing you to log 100 dives and incorporates many updates making it even easier to keep an accurate record of your dives.
This log book contains all the information that is required to be recorded by law. In addition, there are many other areas of information that are included for information and reference.

This logbook is designed for recreational use only. If you are performing any work underwater or are being paid for diving please use a suitable commercial diving log book.
This logbook is aimed at recreational divers who are diving for the majority of the time on air. The logbook may be used for decompression dives and nitrox dives.

This version is a hardback case measuring approximately 216mm x 140mm.



Diving Log Book - Blue Wave

Our Price: £15.99

Pages : 216 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Nov 2005
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Same description as above Black Steel.

 

Diving Log Book - Softback

Our Price: £13.99

Pages : 172 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Apr 2006
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Relive the highs & lows of each diving year. Contains 2 pages per dive with one page reserved for technical information and one ruled page for notes. This paperback logbook conforms fully to HSE ACOPS standards and is suitable for recreational diving. Contains records for 82 dives. Comes complete with waterproof cover.

 Coffee Table
Beneath North Sulawesi

Our Price: £44.99
Format :
Hardback
Publication Date : Oct 2006
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'Beneath North Sulawesi’ is the long overdue Coffee Table sequel to “Beneath Bunaken (1993)”, the award winning almanac that was selected as the Presidential Gift for the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation conference in 1994.

Michael AW, author of ‘Beneath Bunaken’, ‘Richest Reefs’, ‘Dreams from a Rainbow Sea’ and cinematographer Stuart Ireland and Antibe’s award winning composer Eric Bettens came together for this production – a DVD and a high quality pictorial almanac that encapsulates the richness and beauty of what lies beneath North Sulawesi into one exquisite volume; it is designed to raise the standard for all books of the sea, a hallmark for underwater image production. The theme music was specially written for ‘Beneath North SulaweSea’

Part of the proceeds from this production go towards OceanNEnvironment’s SOS funds to support research and preservation projects in the Indo-Pacific. Covering the expanse of the North Sulawesi peninsula, the images from this production were shot entirely from Bunaken Marine Park, Banka, Sangie, Ruang, Siau and the Lembeh Strait.


 Educational
Reduced Gradient Bubble Model in Depth
B R Wienke

Our Price: £19.99

Pages : 96 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Oct 2003
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The intent of this book is to present a working view of the reduced gradient bubble model (RGBM), decompression mechanics, and applications to technical diving. The focus is RGBM theory and correlations with experiment, lab testing, field-testing, and data. It is directed to the reader with some rudimentary understanding of decompression. Dual phase mechanics, materials, and bubble phenomenology are linked, field testing, data, and validation are discussed, and the physical couplings are presented. Extensive references are appended. SOME HAVE CALLED IT A REVOLUTION IN MODERN DIVING. The RGBM has already gained widespread acceptance and popularity with growth in prominence, particularly in the deep, decompression, and mixed gas sectors. This is due to released Tables (NAUI), meter implementations (Suunto, Mares, Dacor, Plexus, Hydrospace, Plexus, Zeagle) computer software (GAP, ABYSS, RGBMdiving.com), testing, validation and wholesale positive results and feedback by real divers across all venues.

 
Deeper into Diving 2nd Edition
J Lippmann

Our Price: £32.99

Pages : 512 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Mar 2006
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The long-awaited second edition of John Lippmann’s popular book on deeper diving is finally available ...

Deeper Into Diving is for the diving enthusiast, the experienced diver, the technical diver, the dive instructor, as well as other diving and dive medical professionals. It contains information on a variety of decompression procedures and technical information that is not easily obtainable. This book also provides very valuable insights into diving physiology and various physical and medical aspects of deeper diving. This new edition also includes over 70 pages on technical diving.


IANTD Technical Diving Encyclopedia
Tom Mount

 

Format : Softback
Publication Date : Jan 2001
Availability : Unavailable Out of Print

This new 270 page reference is authored by Tom Mount with chapters by Jarrod Jablonski, Lamar Hires, Bruce V. Voss, M.D., David J. Doolette, Ph.D., Jolie Bookspan, Ph.D., Martin Shamilian, Ph.D., John Zumrick MD, JP Imbert, and Kevin Gurr. Subjects include The Leading Cause of Accidents in Technical Diving, Equipment Configuration, Dive Planning, Dive Techniques, Respiration, Circulation and Breathing Control, The Effects of Drugs on Diving, Oxygen and It's Effects on the Diver, Inert Gas Narcosis, Carbon Dioxide Retention, Carbon Monoxide - The Black Gas, High Pressure Nervous Syndrome, Combining Theories for Decompression Safety, Phychological & Physical Fitness for Technical Diving and Operation Safety. This unique reference manual will be required reading for all IANTD Technical Diver Programs.

The Decompression Matrix

 

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Format : Softback
Publication Date : Mar 2003
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Decompression theory is very complicated, yet a good understanding of it is essential to help protect the diver from harmful and distressing medical problems. It is worth remembering that 2/3rds of all bend cases are within the limits of tables and dive computers being used. So, it is very pleasing to find a book that brings this topic to life in plain English and with a sense of humour.

This book provides a straightforward explanation of the theory, with practical advice and strategies that help the diver avoid the bends.

This book takes you beyond the basic information given by the training agencies to a level of understanding that will better protect you from the ravages of DCI. The text ranges across traditional decompression, gas movement in the body, women and diving, personal decompression computers(PDCs), DCI avoidance strategies, bubble control including RGBM and deep stops, multi-level computer assisted diving, gas planning, alternative decompression systems, risk assessment, DCI first aid and practical decompression in the real-world.


 Fiction
Dragon

 

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Pages : 585 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Sep 2005
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A NUCLEAR PEARL HARBOUR Buried in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Japan, lies one of the greatest drowned secrets of World War Two - a crashed B-29 Bomber that was carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan in 1945. Its deadly cargo, lost in the sea for nearly fifty years, is at the heart of this classic Dirk Pitt thriller, in which a small group of Japanese nationalist fanatics, dreaming of a new Nipponese Empire, set out to neutralise and blackmail the USA - with nuclear weapons planted strategically in the country's major cities!

 
Double Cross

 

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Pages : 422 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Sep 2005
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When Ed Strachan's parents were killed in a horrific car crash eighteen years ago, they left their son a miserly inheritance: the memory of a mangled nursery rhyme and a cufflink inscribed with a single set of coordinates. But eighteen years later, when a beautiful girl tries to poison Ed and steal the cufflink, he guesses it may have greater significance than he had imagined. Christine Molyneux is just the first of many who will stop at nothing to get hold of it. Ed is soon prime suspect in a complicated homicide and immersed in a mystery that goes back way before his parent's death. It is a mystery that lies hidden off a coral island in the South China Sea; that has already cost thousands of lives and that will cost many more before it sees the light of day again. Fans of Clive Cussler will love "Double Cross", a breathtaking mixture of mystery, action and undersea adventure.

 Non-Fiction
Black Saturday

 

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Pages : 160 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Jul 2005
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In the early hours of Saturday, 14th October 1939, just after the outbreak of the War, the Royal Navy suffered a stunning loss. The battleship Royal Oak, stationed inside the main base of the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, was shaken by a number of explosions. She became a furnace, rolled over and within minutes, had gone to the bottom, with nearly 800 men trapped inside. This daring feat of arms was eagerly seized upon by the Nazi propoganda service and they acclaimed Leutenant Prien of U-47 as their first hero of the War. Hero because he had penetrated the defences of 'Impregnable Scapa', where every previous attempt had failed.

Blind Man's Bluff

 

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Pages : 352 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Jan 2001
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If you have ever wondered what Soviet submarines and for that matter British and American got up to, then it’s all in here! The book is centred around a series of incidents and major espionage projects around 1949 to the early nineties. We recommend you read a copy before the entire print run is recalled!

Ship of Gold
G Kinder

Our Price: £9.99

Pages : 528 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Oct 1999
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The SS Central America sank in 1857 off the Carolina coast. Despite battling storms and technological challenges, the discovery of this ship and it’s treasure has been described as the greatest ever found.

In September 1857 the side-wheel steamer SS "Central America", carrying 500 passengers and tons of gold from the California Gold Rush, sank in a hurricane 200 miles off the Carolina coast. Lost in legend for more than a century, its tragic story resurfaced in 1989 when Tommy Thompson, an ocean engineer, sailed into Norfolk harbour with over ten tons of pioneer gold. Using oceanography, computers and probability theory to sift through historical records and penetrate the ocean depths, Thompson's team had recovered, as LIFE magazine put it, 'the greatest treasure ever found'.

This superb book is, firstly, a finely researched historical record of the initial disaster. It is also a chronicle of the technological breakthroughs in which deep-sea robots were developed to perform all sorts of tasks one and half miles below the surface. Finally, it is a terrifically exciting adventure story, telling how scientists and engineers battled storms, technological challenges and intrusive salvagers to find one of the world's greatest lost treasures. A superb non-fiction adventure story.

About the Author
Gary Kinder has been researching this story since 1987, two years before the wreck was discovered. He was aboard the group's research vessel at sea when they first announced their find.


Ocean Gladiator

RRP: £12.99
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Pages : 340 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Oct 2005
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Ocean Gladiator - Battles beneath the ocean from Mark Ellyatt. Mark tells of scuba diving adventures spanning 12 years. Twelve chapters outline a shakey start learning to scuba dive in Mexico, life as globe trotting diving instructor and succesfully becoming the Worlds Deepest Scuba Diver, amongst other hair raising diving projects. Mark recalls the how and the why of some of the most adventurous scuba dives ever conducted in an effort to educate and entertain novices and experts alike.

REVIEWS -
Mark Ellyatt is a Scuba Diving Instructor Trainer with thousands of dives and almost as many underwater adventures to his name. Mark has authored 100's of magazine articles based around his exploits deep beneath the ocean - from exploring the Deepest Shipwrecks to becoming the Deepest Scuba Diver. Ocean Gladiator was written to educate and entertain anyone interested in scuba diving, especially those hoping to explore the extreme side of Technical Diving. Mark still teaches diving full time around the world through his Inspired-Training company.


 Cave Diving
The Darkness Beckons
M Farr

Our Price: £24.99

Pages : 304 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Oct 2003
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Explores the history and development of cave diving from early beginnings in the 18th Century right up to the present day. This highly sought after book is a brand new version with extensively updated material.

See also Martyn Farr's new publication 'Diving in Darkness' on the list below.


 
The Cave Divers
R F Burgess

Our Price: £16.99

Pages : 351 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Feb 1999
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Cave divers are a breed apart and this is their story - a story of pushing the limits of technology and human endurance. The author takes you on a journey from the earliest pioneering expeditions into submerged prehistoric caves in Europe to the most recent record-setting expeditions.

 Exploration
Return to Midway
Dr R D Ballard

Our Price: £20.00

Pages : 191 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Oct 1999
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The discoverer of the Titanic takes on his most challenging underwater search ever…In spring 1998 Robert Ballard and his team sailed into the waters off Midway Island. Their mission- to locate and photograph the ships sunk in the epic 1942 battle that changed the course of the Pacific War. But Dr Ballard soon found himself facing the greatest challenge of his career. The lost ships of Midway lay over three miles down and within a vast potential search area. Return to Midway is both an exciting modern-day adventure story - and the final chapter in one of this century's epic naval battles.

 History
Diving Pioneers
A Koornhof
E Hanauer

Our Price: £14.99

Format : Softback
Publication Date : Jan 2000
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The history of diving in America from Hollywood’s first stunt girl to the founding of PADI. Spanning the era from hard hats to computers, these stories recall scubas pioneering days when every dive was an adventure.

 UK Dive Guides
Scapa Flow Dive Guide
L. Wood

Our Price: £15.99

Pages : 176 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Mar 2007
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A brand new dive guide to scapa flow featuring; 3D wreck scans, highly detailed full colour maps of all locations, full colour world class photography throughout, unseen archive material.

The most comprehensive guide to diving the reefs and wrecks of Scapa Flow. Scapa Flow has international acclaim as one of the top five wreck diving locations in the world and has more diveable wreckage than any other area in Europe. The shipwrecks are a mixture of battleships, cruisers and destroyers from the German High Seas Battle Fleet scuttled towards the end of WWI and the direct actions of the British Admiralty which sank a further 43 ships during both world conflicts to block the entrances to Scapa Flow.

• The definitive guide to diving Scapa Flow covering all wrecks and reef dives.
• Contains a wealth of previously unpublished material.
• Detailed descriptions of every dive including special conditions and unusual features.
• Includes highly detailed full colour maps of all wreck locations.
• Detailed historical accounts of all the wrecks.
• Bottom scans and line drawings of many of the wrecks.
• Suitable for all levels of experience from novice to ‘technical’ diver.


 
The Bull & the Barriers - the wrecks of Scapa Flow
L. Wood

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Pages : 127 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Jun 2001
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This is the story of the wrecks dotted in and around Scapa Flow. Covering not only the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet is also looks at one of the biggest disasters in British naval history, that of the sinking of the Royal Oak by U-47 when 833 men lost their lives.

 
World War One Channel Wrecks
A Lane
N Maw

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Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Jan 2000
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Information is given on more than 750 vessels sunk during the 1914-1918 war. Includes chart positions and maps showing the relative locations of the wrecks and how they met their ends. Background information is also included on the U-Boats which accounted for many of the Allied loses, which themselves often fell victims of war.

 
Dive England's Greatest Wrecks
R MacDonald

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Pages : 169 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : May 2003
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 Dive England's Greatest Wrecks is a perfect companion for any diver interested in exploring England's most exciting shipwrecks, preserved as time capsules of an era of sea power and majesty that has now passed into the history books. Among the ten featured here are the Salsette off Weymouth, arguably Engalnd's most famous shipwreck; the SS Kyarra off Dorset; the British submarine M2 and the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Hood, both lying off Portland; the American Liberty ship James Egan Layne off Plymouth; and the fabulous P & O liner Moldavia.

Along with the history of each vessel and the dramatic account of how it was wrecked, there is essential diver information detailinghow the wreck lies today, along with depths, tides and other points of interest. Each of the wrecks is vividly brought to life by specially commissioned stunning paintings showing the vessels as they lie on the seabed today.


 
Dive Scotland's Greatest Wrecks
R MacDonald

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Pages : 176 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Jul 2000
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Accomplished diver Rod Macdonald has carefully selected 10 of Scotland's most famous shipwrecks in this practical and authoritative guide. The story of the sinking of each vessel is dramatically recounted and accompanied by a detailed description of the wreck today. Each wreck is brought vividly to life by specially commissioned illustrations and the dives are depicted with charts and underwater photographs.

 
Dive Dorset
J & V Hinchcliffe

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Pages : 232 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Jan 2000
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A new edition of this key Diver Guide series book featuring some of the country's most varied diving, from wrecks by the dozen to the natural wonders of reefs, caverns and busy fish life. More than 100 miles of coast are represented in this extensive guide, including Lyme Bay, Chesil Beach, Portland, Purbeck and Poole Bay and Harbour. In updating their wreck information the authors, with more than 25 years of Dorset diving experience, have concentrated on vessels which still have clear remains that can be explored. Illustrated in colour and black-and-white. 232 pages.

 
Dive Kent
K McDonald

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Format : Softback
Publication Date : Oct 2002
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Kent has many wrecks, sunk by weather, warfare and misadventure. This guide ranges from the Sussex border to Margate in the north-east, detailing wrecks and other sites plus information on local services, launch sites and charter boats. Chapters cover: Dungeness to Littlestone; Hythe and Folkestone; Dover, South Foreland and St Margaret's; Kingsdown, Walmer, Deal and South Goodwins; Sandwich, Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate and North Goodwins; Broadstairs, North Foreland and Margate. Illustrations in colour and b&w. 144 pages.

 
Dive Sussex
K McDonald

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Format : Softback
Publication Date : Jan 2000
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A new edition of this Diver Guide series book featuring more than 300 diveable wrecks off the Sussex coast. Following a chapter on dive planning the guide lists great wreck dives from Chichester all the way to Broomhill Sands, via Bognor Regis, Litttlehampton, Ferring, Hove, Brighton, Burrow Head, Newhaven, Beach Head, Eastbourne, St Leonards and Hastings. The author, a vice-president and former chairman of the British Sub-Aqua Club, is a wrecks advisor and writer for Diver magazine and has written more than 30 books on the subject. Illustrated in colour and black-and-white.

 
Dive South Cornwall
R Larn

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Pages : 236 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Jan 2000
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More than 200 coastal and offshore dive sites - including the region's infamous tally of wrecked ships - are described in a book that covers the area from Whitsand Bay, just west of Plymouth, to Land's End. Appropriately, author Richard Larn is a noted wrecks historian. Harbour maps and photographs of launch sites help the visiting diver while, to supplement GPS, illustrations of coastal transit marks aid site location by traditional means. Illustrations in colour and b&w. 236 pages.

 
Dive the Isles of Scilly & North Cornwall
R Larn

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Pages : 232 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Oct 2003
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Home to more than 3000 recorded shipwrecks, and boasting superior underwater visibility and rich marine life, North Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are a magnet for divers. This book tells how to explore the waters around the Isles of Scilly, with its 5 inhabited islands, 48 islets and hundreds of rocks spread over 60 square miles. There is also detailed coverage of North Cornwall, which can be dived from boats based at St Ives, Newquay, Padstow, Rock and Port Gaverne, with special information for technical divers wishing to visit the deeper wrecks off this coast. 232 pages, illustrated in colour and black and white with maps of relevant areas.

 Photography
An Essential Guide to Digital Underwater Photography

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Pages : 128 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Feb 2006
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This book is an absolutely essential guide for those who want to shoot beautiful digital pictures underwater. The complete “How to” guide with detailed descriptions and professional secrets, explanations about using digital cameras underwater, exposure, use of light and shooting techniques for macro and wide-angle imagery. Packed with information, key points, tips and techniques, and professional secrets, it includes; Digital Essentials, Shooting Digital Underwater, Art of Underwater Photography, The Digital Darkroom, Beyond the Basics.

An Essential Guide to Digital Underwater Photography takes you from the basics, channels your creativity to greater heights and guides you to produce some of the most beautiful pictures of the sea. It will also help you to learn the art form of photography and master the vocabulary of digital imaging. Above all this book will open your eyes to the enjoyment of digital underwater photography increasing the fun factor of your diving. It is a complete digital "How To" guide. An important new title for underwater photographers. All pages are color coded for quick reference.

For aspiring underwater photographers the road to success is littered with obstacles. Surfacing from a promising dive, we are faced with photographs of a blurred buddy, a fish giving us the arse or a blast of backscatter sneering back at us. Despite the desire to capture the magical moments we are privy to each time we submerge ourselves in the ocean, for most, underwater photography is nothing but a cruel joke.

That is until Michael Aw and Mathieu Meur came together to reveal the secrets of their success in producing this complete how-to guide to underwater digital photography. The guide includes well thought-out modules, tutorials, tips and hints on topics such as exposure, light manipulation, shooting techniques, macro and wide angle imagery, color correction, file management and most importantly what to do in that moment of terror when water gurgles into your camera!


An Advanced Guide to Digital Underwater Photography

 

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Pages : 132 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Aug 2007
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Based on methods employed by professional underwater photographers, the ADVANCED guide for Digital Underwater Photography is packaged with practical techniques and useful information. Whether you are a novice or a serious shooter, this state-of-the-art guide will take your digital imaging proficiency to the next level. Expanding beyond the basic and essential aspects of digital underwater photography, the content is organised into five modules encapsulating advanced digital imaging knowledge, photographic skills, asset management, and workflow to post production. For the photographer who wishes to appreciate and embrace the art of underwater imagery, techniques for successful pictures are revealed in detail. The structured modules give comprehensive descriptions about the composition and methods for ambient light photography, macro and super macro, wide-angle imagery with and without a model to shooting with filters, over and under images to shooting with HID lights. Advance yourself with tutorials for the digital darkroom – photo editing, colour and exposure correction. This guide also includes information on digital asset management systems adopted by professional photographers. A generous number of images are used to illustrate the varied form of underwater imaging. A special section features images and secrets from some of the world’s top underwater photographers – David Doubilet, Doug Perrine, Alex Mustard & Stephen Frink. This is the most definitive advanced guide available for digital underwater photography; a must have essential for any aspiring digital photographer.

 Red Sea
Dive Red Sea the Ultimate Guide

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Pages : 350 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Mar 2007
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Recent years have seen the discovery of new shipwrecks, reefs and animal gatherings in the Red Sea. Now they are featured in this important new guide book complemented by the best modern photography, high quality mapping and graphic illustrations. Simon Rogerson and John McIntyre take you on a guided tour of classic dives throughout the region.

 UK Marine Life
British Sea Fishes

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Pages : 216 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Oct 2001
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Revised, updated and expanded to cover more species in greater detail, this new edition of British Sea Fishes is devoted entirely to the fish found around the coasts of the British Isles - and most of the 100-plus species described are illustrated with colour photographs of the fishes in their natural environment.

 Submarines and Wrecks
SBS The Inside Story of the Special Boat Service

 

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Pages : 372 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Jan 1997
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The inside story of the SBS from the Second World War to Special Operations in the Gulf War. Based on dramatic personal accounts from former members, the result is the most comprehensive and authoritative documentary on the SBS.

 
Disasters of the Deep - A History of Submarine Tragedies

 

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Pages : 288 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Jul 2003
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This is the fully revised and updated edition of the first comphrensive account of every peacetime submarine disaster from 1774 to the present day. By examining many of the sinkings in considerable detail, analysing what went wrong and describing the attempts made to rescue the crew and the vessel, Edwyn Gray traces the development of the submarine from the earliest experimental submersibles of the late 18th century, to the nuclear powered monsters of today. The appendices include the most comprehensive and accurate list of submarine disasters ever printed, in the compilation of which the author has had the cooperation of the US, French, Italian, Danish and Japanese Navies, as well as the RN Submarine Museum and the German U-Boat Archive.

The Last Patrol

 

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Pages : 212 pages
Format : Hardback
Publication Date : Jan 2001
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The Last Patrol is an operational history of the fifty-two American submarines lost during the Second World War.

The Golden Horseshoe - U Boat Ace Otto Kretschner

 

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Pages : 186 pages
Format : Softback
Publication Date : Mar 2002
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The story of Otto Kretschmer Germany's top U-Boat ace. 'The Wolf of the Atlantic' was the name given to Otto Kretschner, Germany's brilliant U-boat commander. It was a title Kretschmer fully earned by almost legendary exploits during the early days of the war, when he accounted for a high tonnage of Allied shipping.

 DVD
British Sea Life

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Pages : 16 pages
Publication Date : Jan 2006
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This documentary records over 170 species, observing their peculiarities and feeding habits. Opening a window for all to see into the world of British Sea Life.

CONTAINS:-

DVD INDENTIFICATION DIRECTORY move quickly to any species of your choice
LIMITED EDITION 16 full colour identification supplement
3 HOURS OF FOOTAGE covering over 170 species


A World Below: Episode One Malta DVD

 

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Publication Date : Apr 2005
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With the fusion of spectacular underwater scenes and amazing music, this DVD gives you the ultimate in audio visual. The essential information on each shipwreck is also provided without the usual documentary format.

This is the first insallment in the H2ocean series. In this primary episode you are taken to the Mediterranean island of Malta. This strategically positioned island played a pivotal role during the conflicts of WW2. The beautiful blue waters of Malta's shores are littered with an abundance of interesting wreck sites, many of them in their final resting positions as a result of wartime conflicts.


The Ultimate Jacques Cousteau Collection 21 DVD Set + FREE Rediscover the World

 

Our Price: £149.99

Publication Date : May 2007
Availability : New title released 21st May 07

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Buy the Cousteau Ultimate Collection Box Set and receive Cousteau's Rediscover the World 3xDVD Box Set worth £29.99

Rediscover the World is a special 3 disc documentary set. The Cousteau team look at some of the fragile ecosystems in our planet and suggest ways to protect it. Their journeys took place in the Philippines, The Mekong, Africa & China.
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