This book is intended to be a field guide for use by divers, such as underwater photographers, who would both want and need to identify their subjects. Even the printed version of the book, which is also offered as an ebook, is light enough to bring on a trip.
A must-read from regular X-Ray Mag contributor Gareth Lock. This book contains more than 30 detailed stories from world-renown divers such as Jill Heinerth, Richard Lundgren, Steve Bogaerts and Roger Williams. The case studies and analysis show how experts can make mistakes and how they survived to tell the tale.
Scuba Exceptional may be the fifth in Simon Pridmore’s Scuba series, but it is actually the true follow up to his first book, the bestselling Scuba Confidential.
Never before published in book form, see extraordinary images of the forgotten American WWII airplanes resting on the bottom of the Kwajalein Atoll lagoon, from award-winning underwater photographer Brandi Mueller.
Today fresh water supplies are dwindling and refugees around the world are suffering from drought, famine and war. It is an issue that can be ignored in a news report, but what happens when this problem physically moves closer to home?
Reviewed by Michael Lawrence
Generally speaking, underwater photography falls into several well-defined categories. Wide-angle reef scenics with or without divers, over-under images, fish portraits, macro and super macro. With his new book, Song of Silence, Rico Besserdich shatters that construct. While skilled in all of the standard approaches to underwater imaging, Rico has chosen to focus on the essential, elemental spirit of water and its boundless faces.
The latest in a series of informative dive guides by Steve Rosenberg, Dive and Travel Galapagos is his NATJA Gold Medal award-winning e-book, providing detailed descriptions of 47 of the most popular dive sites and dozens of land tours throughout the archipelago.
If you are a diver, much of what you learned about topics such as decompression sickness and narcosis in your scuba diving class is over-simplified and some of it is just plain wrong, as diver training agency texts have not kept pace with the science. Scuba Physiological provides us with a good summary of what we know, a glimpse of where current science is taking us, and some good tips to make us all safer divers now.
I first heard the name 'Scapa Flow' when I was a small child. Our cat had just had kittens. My father promptly named two of them 'Scapa' and 'Flo'. "Why Daddy""""? """"There's a place in Scotland called Scapa Flow"""". I wasn't at all sure whether to believe Daddy or not. But I was certainly intrigued by the name."""
The True Nature of Sharks is a full scale exploration of wild shark behavior. Drawn from fifteen years of observing sharks underwater as animals and individuals, it reveals a new dimension of understanding of their lives.