The mysterious world of underwater caves

As an active cave diving instructor, I knew that our community needed a general text that included the latest cave diving information, techniques and practices. This full-color contemporary guidebook reflects recent advances in diving technology including rebreathers and is intended to supplement a proper training program with a professional instructor.

Cave diving may be known as the world's most dangerous sport, but risk is ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Croston leads and entertaining and informative discussion about how we face risk and experience life challenges that allow us to discover our full potential.

My real passion in life is to help spread water literacy. Using my adventures underground, I hope that I communicate how our drinking water courses beneath our feet, and that everything we do on the surface of our land is eventually returned to us to drink. I wrote this children’s book to reach the next generation about how important it is to protect our water resources for the sake of Mother Nature and humankind.

This first person account reveals the very genesis of sport cave diving in the US. Sheck Exley describes close calls that helped him form the rules for safe cave diving. Ultimately, the author lost his life in an underwater cave in 1994 while attempting a deep cave diver to 1000 feet.

Author, photographer and cave explorer Martyn Farr has penned the ultimate history of cave diving. Complete with photos, this book tells the story of how the sport of cave diving evolved around the world.

Drs. Bill Stone and Barbara am Ende dived and crawled deeper into the planet than had ever been achieved before their 1994 expedition in Central Mexico. This gripping true story of adventure, science and technology tells the unbelievably and sometimes fatal feats of cave explorers.

I've given this book to more people than I can count. If you participate in adventure sports and exploration, this book will help you understand what makes you tick and how to take on risks in a responsible manner that brings you home safe.

James Tabor shares gritty stories of sump diving and caving expeditions that take ultimate explorers deeper into the earth than you can imagine. Imagine climbing Everest — except instead of great summits, you are venturing deep into the darkness of Mother Earth.

This is a great read that reveals the world of technical wreck diving. Like cave divers, wreck hunters are often drawn by exploration and scientific pursuits to find innovative ways and techniques to explore the underwater world.

A followup to Deep Survival, Gonzales takes the lessons of modern adventurers and applies them to daily life in a way that helps the average person understand and take risks in the workplace and at home to achieve new goals.

I often read books about exploration, extreme environments and survival. I think these true life adventures help me mitigate risks and survive close calls in my sport of cave diving. In my opinion, few books have ever captured human strength and the capacity to survive like Simpson’s first hand account of a time he was left for dead following a tragic fall on a remote mountain.

For the first time in history, fresh water has become a finite resource. Many experts agree that, without significant changes in water policy, wars of the 21st century may be fought not over oil but for control of clean water. In We Are Water, a cave diving journey carries viewers on an entertaining and enlightening experience, illustrating the fragile relationship between our planet's endangered fresh water resources and the ever increasing needs of our expanding population.