Top Wreck Dives Of The World

"Explores the fascinating world of shipwrecks and wreck diving. This book describes the dives grouped according to the territorial waters in which they lie. It offers a spectrum of dives, from shallow dives on artificial reefs (formed by sinking old or decommissioned ships) to spectacular descents, to major wrecks such as the Lusitania"--Publisher's description.

Contains diving and historical information on the world's best wreck sites,ith locations in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indiancean, and Pacific Ocean.

From the Blue Hole at Lawson Reef and the wreck of the Umbria in the Red Sea, to Michaelmas on the Great Barrier Reef, the Dive Atlas of the World offers a global tour of top dive sites, described and photographed by experts. From well-known classics to sites that have only recently been discovered, this global selection offers the discerning diver a feast of locations to choose from, including an expanded selection of Caribbean dive sites. Whether you favor muck diving and macro photography, wrecks, walls, reefs, caves, blue holes or the adrenaline rush of high-speed drift dive in a strong current (or all of these), you will find well-written, clearly mapped accounts of the top places where you can enjoy these dives. This book features contributions from local experts, leading writers and award-winning photographers such as Jack Jackson and Lawson Wood.

The Egyptian sector of the Red Sea provides scuba divers with their finest opportunity to explore the most outstanding collection of shipwrecks found anywhere in the world. This edition explores nineteen of the most important and diveable shipwrecks. It also includes details about many of the minor wrecks and a list of more than 250 sunken ships.

Explore 100 breathtaking scuba diving sites around the world--from the cenotes of Mexico to the best wreck in Micronesia--through stunning National Geographic photography, expert tips, and cutting-edge travel advice. Filled with more than 350 images from National Geographic, 100 Dives of a Lifetime provides the ultimate bucket list for ardent scuba divers and aspirational travelers alike. From diving with manta rays at night in Kona, Hawaii, and swimming with hammerheads of Cocos Island in Costa Rica to exploring caves in Belize's Lighthouse Atoll and diving beneath the ice floes of Antarctica, this exquisite inspirational book is filled with beautiful imagery, marine life guides, trusted travel tips, and expert diving advice from world-famous National Geographic divers and explorers like Brian Skerry, Jessica Cramp, and David Doubilet. Organized by diving experience and certification level--from beginner open water and wreck dives to expert cold water and cave dives--each location offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the magic of our world's oceans--from your armchair or with your scuba gear in tow.

Take a breathtaking plunge into the colorful world of the Coral Triangle, the waters that cradle Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. One of the world’s most mature reef networks, home to 30 percent of all the world’s coral, this magnificent marine expanse boasts the highest diversity of coral and fish species on the planet. Underwater photographer Chris Leidy beautifully captures a vision of this wonderland through his lens and conveys the inherent complexities of each singular, fleeting scene, illustrating the vital magic of the Coral Triangle.

This global guide to the world's top dive sites is a useful reference source for divers who wish to experience the best diving the planet has to offer. In addition to comprehensive mapping, it features underwater photography showing famous wrecks, a wide range of marine habitats and more.

“Superbly written and action-packed, The Last Dive ranks with such adventure classics as The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air.”—Tampa Tribune Spurred on by a fatal combination of obsession and ambition, Chris and Chrisy Rouse, an experienced father-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve wide-spread recognition for their outstanding and controversial diving skills by solving the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented, World War II German U-boat that lay only a half day’s mission from New York Harbor. The Rouses found the ultimate cost of chasing their personal challenge: death from what divers dread the most—decompression sickness, or “the bends.” In this gripping recounting of their tragedy, author Bernie Chowdhury, himself an expert diver, explores the thrill-seeking, high-risk world of deep sea diving, its legendary figures, most celebrated triumphs, and notorious tragedies.

Even if the memory of their sinking fades or is lost forever, the wrecks remain on the seabed, immersed in silence, bearing visual witness to moments of tragedy or moments of history. Every time you dive down to a wreck, even down to the more famous wrecks, there's a moment of pure magic: you descend into the blue that becomes deeper, and only the sound of bubbles breaks the silence. Suddenly the darker shape of the ship or plane appears, and you start to make out its parts, you start to decipher its fragments. The broken sheets of metal, now part of the seabed, are covered with millions of living creatures that have colonized the wreck, transforming it into a colorful and evocative living monument or the camouflaged foundation of a new and sheltering reef. This book seeks to show readers these incredible underwater treasures, up till now reserved exclusively for a lucky few. The text and illustrations highlight a range of underwater destinations and data that will enable readers to explore some of the world's most evocative wrecks. Highly skilled photographers have contributed the dramatic images of wrecks, reefs, and the living seabed and renowned and experienced scuba divers have provided the detailed practical information needed for preparing dives. To help readers plan successful wreck-diving expeditions, the individual wrecks are not only fully illustrated and described with three-dimensional graphic reconstructions, but are also grouped in geographical clusters, ocean by ocean, site by site.