Resources

Magazines

ScubaMagazine.net
A forum for divers from all over the world. Send messages, view or upload video clips and photos, respond to polls, view dive travel reports, join clubs and gain access to free classifieds marketplace for dive travel and selling your used gear. Free to join.

Scuba Diving Magazine
Online resource for dive travel destinations and trip reports, equipment research, contests deals, and articles about what’s new in dive gear and underwater photography. Enter dive contests and subscribe to the magazine.

Diver
The longest established scuba diving magazine in North America. Free trial subscription, articles, blogs and dive news and information about dive destinations, books, film, diving records, training and diver health.

Books

Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die

Chris Santella

In Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die Chris Santella has invited diving experts from around the world to share some of their favorite destinations, so ardent divers can experience these underwater wonders for themselves- either on location in their SCUBA gear, or at home in their armchair.

Dive Atlas of the World: An Illustrated Reference to the Best Sites

Whether you favor muck diving and macro photography, wrecks, walls, reefs, caves, blue holes or the adrenaline rush of a 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.

The Certified Diver’s Handbook: The Complete Guide to Your Own Underwater Adventures

Clay Coleman

This guide will help you create your own diving adventures on any budget, on any schedule, in waters local or distant, and without the restrictions of group demands.

DAN Pocket Guide to First Aid for Scuba Diving

Dan Orr and Bill Clendenen

A good book to keep in your dive bag. Easy reference for what to do in emergency situations.

Dive: The Ultimate Guide to 60 of the World’s Top Dive Locations by Monty Halls

An authoritative and lavishly illustrated guide with over 300 color photographs and maps. This is a scuba diver’s reference to 400 dives in sixty of the world’s best locations.