Product DescriptionSCUBA diving is thriving in the New York Area. The diving up here is much more challenging than warm water destinations due to our local conditions of cold temperatures, low visibility and currents. Written for both the diver and the non-diver, this book draws the reader into the exciting world of Northeast Technical SCUBA Diving. The book opens with an ‘Introduction to SCUBA Diving’ that explains the equipment, local conditions and dangers of diving to those new to the sport. Consisting of over 70 true stories of local dives this book has the reader descending with the author on numerous local shipwrecks such as the USS San Diego and ocean liner Oregon, both over 500 feet long and sunk in the Atlantic off of Long Island. The book also contains a number of dive site maps. The stories, chronicle the author’s diving adventures and what it feels like to dive locally both exploring the wrecks and from popular shore diving sites . A site/equipment index allows the reader to also use the book to experience specific wrecks and sites. Let’s say you have never dove the USS San Diego, a naval Armored Cruiser that sank in 1918 off of Fire Island. You can easily find all the stories about dives on her in order of increasing difficulty. Or you are considering getting an underwater scooter. You can locate all the stories where a scooter was an important part. Perhaps you want to understand how a reel helps keep a diver from getting lost inside a wreck or what its like to be entangled by a line of reel inside a wreck. Interested in finding out more of the dangers of technical decompression diving? It’s all here in this book. This book takes you diving. .
SCUBA Diving the Wrecks and Shores of Long Island, NY 
This book is a very interesting, entertaining, and enlightening narrative of the author’s adventures SCUBA diving in the Long Island area. The author skillfully combines the suspense and challenge of his escapades with wry humor and fascinating historical anecdotes surrounding the sunken vessels he explores. As a diver myself, I found the tips and suggestions highly valuable, but you don’t have to be a diver to enjoy this gem.
Rating: 5 / 5
I am not a SCUBA diver. I had to read this book for my job, and I was pleasantly surprised. It is not very often when I want to hurry up and finish my day and get home to continue reading a story. And these are true stories. It reads like an adventure, and reminded me of adventure books I read in my youth. I also found myself laughing out loud, like when the author was taken over by currents and finds himself in the middle of the Rockaways on an island with Firemen trainees geared up in his dive suit post 9/11 and exclaims as they are running towards him, “this isn’t France!”. Some of these wreck dives the author went on sound downright scary and dangerous, yet their is a coziness about them. You can feel the pain of the early morning cold minimized by the sheer love of adventure, (and warmed up by an egg sandwich and cup of coffee). There is also a sense of history, and many interesting details. Yes, read this book, and live something you wouldn’t ordinarily live.
Rating: 5 / 5
David has captured the essence of LI wreck diving. . . he adds a humorous side to this book that reads like his log book and is very informative about the wrecks he has been on. . I would recommend this book as mandatory reading for the AOW diver. . Thank you David for such an informative book. .
Rating: 5 / 5
As a local NY diver, I found this book a great reference for expanding my knowledge of local dive sites. Along with the colorful narrative, it proved to be an entertaining read as well. Readers of this book won’t be disappointed. Whether you are thinking about diving or already dive, this book will become a go to source for future dives and may just push you towards dives you didn’t even know existed.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book has been one of the most interesting dive books that I have ever read. I am moving from Florida where I am a Master Diver and have done all of my diving to NY where I didn’t think that I would be doing any diving unless I went to the Islands but this book as proven me totally wrong. The writer is incredibly experienced and helpful and makes diving in New York sound like a whole new world of diving is about to open up to me. I am totally excited to get up there and begin discovering new dive spots.
Thanks again for all of the information!
Claudia and Wendy
Rating: 5 / 5