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References from the shelves of my personal library:

Tec Diving

Hyperbarics and Physiology

Blending and Fill Station

Tec Manuals

Cave Diving

Florida Shipwrecks

Photography

Good Reading

Nature

Travel

 

 

 

Tec Diving

Basic Diving Physics and Applications by B.R. Wienke - Best Publishers

Beating the Bends by Alex Brylske - Best Publishing

Complete Encyclopedia of Diving Terminology by Joe Odom - TDI

Decompression Procedures by Jan Neal - TDI

Deep Diving by Bret Gilliam - Watersport Publishing

Deeper into Diving by John Lippmann - J.L. Publications

Diver Reference Dictionary - Best Publishing

Diving Above Sea Level by B.R. Wienke - Best Publishers

Doing it Right by Jarrod Jablonski - Global Underwater Explorers

Expedition & Diving Operations Handbook by Stephen Arrington - Best Publishing

Exploration And Mixed Gas Diving Encyclopedia by Tom Mount - IANTD

An Introduction to Technical Diving CD-ROM - Grale Company

Mixed Gas Diving by Heinz K.J. Lettnin - Best Publishing

Mixed Gas Diving by Tom Mount & Bret Gilliam - Watersport Publishing, Inc.

NOAA Diving Manual, edited by James T. Joiner - US Dept. of Commerce

Oxygen Exposure Management by Dr. R. Vann

Physics For Commercial Divers by Paul Williams - Harlequin Press

Physics for Divers by Fred Calhoun

Recreational Divers Guide to Decompression Theory

Solo Diving by Robert Von Maier - Aqua Quest Publications

Tec Rec Equipment and Setup and Key Skills DVD - DSAT

Technical Diving From the Bottom Up by Kevin Gurr - Pheonix Oceaneering Ltd.

Technical Decompression Techniques & Extended Range by Jan Neal - Underwater Dynamics

Technical Diver Encyclopedia by Tom Mount - IANTD

Technical Diving, In Depth by Bruce Wienke - Best Publishing

Technical EANx Decompression Techniques by Jan Neal - Underwater Dynamics

The Technical Diving Handbook by Gary Gentile - Gary Gentile Productions

US Navy Diving Technical Manual

 

 

Hyperbarics and Physiology

Basic Decompression Theory and Application by B.R. Wienke - Best Publishing

Diving Physiology in Plain English by Jolie Bookspan - Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Soc. Inc.

History of Hyperbaric Chambers by Gerhard F.K. Haux - Best Publishing

Mending The Bends by David Merritt - Best Publishing

Oxygen and the Scuba Diver by Walt Hendrick - Lifeguard Systems, Inc.

Recompression Chamber Life Support by Dick Rutkowski - Hyperbarics International

Reduced Gradient Bubble Model in depth by Bruce Wienke - Best Publishing

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine - Journal of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society

 

 

Blending and Fill Station

Blending and Partial Pressure Methods of Mixing Nitrox by Dick Rutkowski - IANTD

DSAT Gas Blending by Drew Rishardson - DSAT

Fill Station Operations by William High - PSI

Guide For Fill Station Operations by William High & Ed Kasten - PSI

Hazmat Training by William High - PSI

Improvised and Low Cost Gas Boosters by Vance Harlow - Airspeed Press

Inspecting Cylinders by William High - PSI

Nitrox Gas Blender by Adrian Doubleday - TDI

Oxygen Cylinder Cleaning Technician by William High - PSI

Oxygen Hacker's Companion by Vance Harlow - Airspeed Press

Oxygen Measurement for Divers by J. S. Lamb - Best Publishing

O2 Service Technician by Gary L. Taylor - PSA International

Recreational Nitrox Gas Blending by Bart Bjorkman - Best Publishing

Scuba Cylinder Reprint File by William High - PSI

Technical Guide To Gas Blending by Nicos Raftis - Best Publishing

Valve Repair Technician by William High - PSI

Visual Cylinder Inspection by William High -PSI

 

 

Tec Manuals

Advanced Nitrox by Jan Neal - TDI

Advanced Nitrox by Hal Watts - PSAI

Advanced Nitrox Diver by Lee Sommers - IANTD

Advanced Trimix Diving by Steve Lewis - TDI

Diver's Guide to Decompression Procedures by Joe Odom - TDI

DSAT Equivalent Air Depth Table

Enriched Air RDPs

Extended Range by Jan Neal - TDI

Extended Range Nitrox by Hal Watts - PSAI

Extended Range and Intro to Trimix by Joe Odom - TDI

Introduction To Trimix by Joe Odom - TDI

Narcosis Management by Hal Watts - PSAI

Nitrox by Jan Neal, TDI

PADI Deep Diver Manual

PADI Divemaster Manual

PADI Encyclopedia

PADI Enriched Air Diving Manual

Scuba Divers Sign Language Manual by James P. Smith - Best Publishing

Tao of Survuval Underwater by Tom Mount - IANTD

TDI & IANTD Advanced Nitrox by Jan Neal & Denise Morrissette

TDI & IANTD Decompression Procedures by Jan Neal & Denise Morrissette

TDI & IANTD Extended Range by Jan Neal

Tec Manual PDF CD-ROM - GUE

Technical Student Workbook by Tom Mount - IANTD

Tek Lite by Tom Mount - IANTD

Trimix by Joe Odom - TDI

Twin Set Diving by Hal Watts - PSAI

 

 

Cave Diving

The Art of Safe Cave Diving by Dayton Saltsman - NACD

Basic Underwater Cave Surveying by John Burge - New South Press

Cave Diver Student Manual and Workbook by Tom Mount - IANTD

Cave Divers by Robert F. Burgess - Aqua Quest

Cavern and Cave Fundementals - TDI

Cavern/Cave Diver Workbook - NACD

Cave Diving Communications by Joe Prosser - NSSCDS

Cavers Measureless to Man by Sheck Exley - Cave Books

Deep into Blue Holes by Rob Palmer - Media

Diving in Darkness by Martyn Farr - Wild Places

Diving in Overhead Environments by Richard Dreher - TDI

Dynamics of Underwater Survey, Mapping & Modeling by Todd R. Kincaid - GUE

Hand Signals for Diving - NACD

NSS Student Cave Diverf Workbook - NSSCDS

NSS/CDS Workbook - NSSCDS

NSS Cave Diving Manual by Joe Prosser - NSSCDS

NSS Cavern Diving Manual by John Zumrick - NSSCDS

Taming of the Slough by Sheck Exley - NSSCDS

 

 

 

Florida Shipwrecks

Emanuel Point Ship by Roger C. Smith - Florida Bureau of Archeological Research

Florida Keys Dive Odyssey by Don Ferguson

Florida Shipwrecks by Daniel Berg - Aqua Explorers

Histories & Mysteries by Thomas A. Scott - Best Publishing

Shipwrecks of the Sunshine State by Michael C. Barnette - Assco. of Underwater Explorers

Underwater Florida by Ned DeLoach

 

Photography

Complete Guide to Underwater Modeling by Tom Mount and Patti Schaeffer - Sea-Mount

Digital Underwater Photographer - PADI

Essential Guide to Nikonos Systems by Jim Church - Aqua Quest

Essential Guide to Underwater Photography by Michael Aw - Best Publishing

Essential Guide to Underwater Video by Jim Church - Aqua Quest

Essentials of Underwater Photography by Robert M. Jackson - Best Publishing

How To Photograph Underwater by Norbert Wu - Best Publishing

The Manual of Underwater Photography by Verlag Christina Hemmen - Best Publishing

Pioneer Series DVD by Stan Waterman

My Underwater Photo Journey by Cathy Church

Sea Salt by Stan Waterman - New World Publications

Underwater Video Basics DVD by Steve Miller

 

 

 

Good Reading

The Adventurous Aquanaut by Hillary Hauser - Best Publishing

The Dive by Pippin Ferreras - Regan Books

Diver Down by Michael R. Ange - McGraw Hill

The Last Dive by Bernie Chowdhury - Harper Collins

Latitude by Gianni Guadalupi - Carrol & Graff

Longitude by Dava Sobel - Walker

Neutral Buoyancy by Tim Ecott - Grove Press

Ocean Gladiator by Mark Ellatt - Emily Eight Productions

Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen - Harper Perennial

The Rapture of the Deep by Michael Zinsley - 1st Books

The Riddle of the Compass by Amir D. Aczel - Harcourt

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson - Random House

Submerged by Daniel Lenihan - Newmarket Press

Underworld by Graham Hancock - Three Rivers Press

Water and Light by Stephen Harrigan - University of Texas Press

 

 

Nature

 

 

The Book of Whales by Richard Ellis - Knopf

Coastal Fish Identification, California to Alaska by Paul Human - New World Publications

Eco-Touring The Florida Keys by Matthew Landau and Larry Gates - Best Publishing

Fishes of the Caribbean CD-ROM - ReefNet

Indo Pacific Coral Reef by Gerald R. Allen - Roger Steene

The Great Book of the Sea by Francesco Guierrini - Courage Books

The Living Sea by Jaques Cousteau - Harper & Row

Reef Fishes by Michael Aw - Ocean Graphic

Reef Creature Identification, Florida Caribbean Bahamas by Paul Human - New World Publications

Reef Fish Behavior, Florida Caribbean Bahamas by Paul Human - New World Publications

Reef Fish Identification, Florida Caribbean Bahamas by Paul Human - New World Publications

Reef Fish Identification, Galapagos by Paul Human - New World Publications

Reef Fish Identification, Tropical Pacific by Paul Human - New World Publications

Reef Coral Identification, Florida Caribbean Bahamas by Paul Human - New World Publications

Reef Life by Denise Tackett - Microcosm

The Sea - VMB

Shells by S. Peter Dance - Dorling Kindersley

Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises by Mark Carwardine - Dorling Kindersley

Wild Ocean by Sylvia Earle - National Geographic

Wonders of the Reef by Stephen Frink - Abrams

 

 

 

Travel

Aqua Expeditions by Wendy Church - Aqua Expeditions

The Bahamas by Hans W. Hannau - Agros

Belize by Franz Meyer - Pisces Books

Best Dive Sites of the World by Egidio Trainito - Abbe Mille Press

Caribbean Dive Guide by Kurt Amsler - Abbeville Press

The Cayman Islands Dive Guide by Stephen Frink - Abbeville Press

Cozumel by George Lewbel - Pisces Books

Cuba by David Stanley - Lonely Planet

Cuba by Diana Williams - Pisces Books

Dive Chronicals

Diving Beleze by Ned Middleton - Aqua Quest

The Cayman Islands by Carl Roessler - Pisces Books

The Dive Sites of the Cayman Islands by Lawson Wood - New Holland

The French Polynesia Dive Guide by Kurt Amsler - Abbeville Press

The Great Lakes - Kathy Johnson - Pisces Books

Indonesia by Peter Turner - Lonely Planet

Isles of the Caribbees by Carleton Mitchell - National Geographic

The Pacific Horthwest by Edward Weber - Pisces Books

Papau New Guinea by Adrian Lipscomb - Lonely Planet

The Red Sea by John Ratterree - Pisces Books

The Red Sea Dive Guide by Alessandro Garletti - Abbeville Press

Red Sea Reef Guide by Helmut Debelius - Ikan

Sinai Dive Guide - Sea Level

Scuba Core DVD

The Travelin' Diver's Chapbook by Ben Davison - Undercurrent

The Turks and Caicos Islands by Stuart Cummings - Pisces Books

The Turks and Caicos Islands by Bob Gascione - Aquanaut

 

 

 

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