Advanced Wreck Diving Guide [Paperback]

Gary Gentile (Author)

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Review

Written for the diver with considerable scuba experience, a sense of adventure, and a yen to explore shipwreck sties, Advanced Wreck Diving Guide is amply illustrated and covers all the important aspects of the popular sport: approach, techniques, safety, wreck penetration, and decompression methods, as well as the details of artifact recovery and restoration. In addition, Gary Gentile includes invaluable tips on underwater photographer. Gentile, a professional photographer and experienced shipwreck diver, has enlivened his informative text with anecdotes that may make novice divers and armchair adventurers alike want to don diving gear! -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Cornell Maritime Pr/Tidewater Pub; 3rd edition (July 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870333801
• ISBN-13: 978-0870333804
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #810,814 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Should be "basic wreck diving," not "advanced", March 11, 2000

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JMSpade (Fayetteville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Wreck Diving Guide (Paperback)

Can't argue with Gentile's credentials as a diver, but his book leaves a lot to be desired. It gives a lot of very basic information and hints, all of which are covered in the PADI wreck diving course. And much of the information he provides is generic to any kind of diving. This book would serve as a decent reference for a beginning wreck diver, but if you've been down on or in more than two wrecks already, this book won't tell you anything new.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disapointing, November 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Wreck Diving Guide (Paperback)

In an age of beautiful color underwater photographs and advanced underwater technology, this work falls short. The book is dated and less than informative. This is not a reference guide for an experienced diver.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good reference material, June 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Wreck Diving Guide (Paperback)

Although a little outdated, this is a good choice for someone that is beginning to learn about Technical diving. Even though this book is 10 yrs old -and tech diving changes rapidally- there are still chapters that are very usefull. The artifact restoration chapter especially. All in all a good addition to any diver's book shelf.