Books about personal scuba diving experiences, books about scuba
diving triumphs and tragedies, and stories and diving expeditions.
All of the links on this page go to special pages at Amazon.com
where you can learn more about each book and read reviews written
by other readers.
Dark Descent: Diving and the Deadly Allure of the Empress of Ireland
This book by Kevin F. McMurray is the story of the sinking of the Canadian
ocean liner "Empress of Ireland" and that
ship's history as a lure for extreme scuba divers
who can handle strong currents and frigid waters.
Deep Descent:
Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria
This book by Kevin F. McMurray is the personal journal of one diver's deep-sea
wreck diving experiences that mostly covers diving
over the sunken Italian pasenger liner the "Andrea Doria"
which sank off the east coast of the Unite States -
near Cape Cod - in 1956.
The Last Dive:
A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths
This book by Bernie Chowdhury is the
tragic story of Chris and Chrissy Rouse,
an energetic, quarrelsome father-and-son
diving team who met with disaster in 1992
while attempting to reach a German U-boat
in the waters off of the New York coast.