Through his work in motion pictures, Lloyd Bridges appreciated the impact of skin diving upon this medium and presented an exciting picture of future possibilities in underwater photography. The author’s role in Sea Hunt made him keenly aware of the revolution developing in the fields of salvage diving, treasure hunting, search and rescue, science, gold mining, and other virgin areas open to skin divers with imagination and enterprise. He described methods, techniques, and tools already in use and gave an exciting glimpse of future possibilities. First published in 1960, here is the complete story of skin diving as an exciting new field for fun, adventure, and opportunity open to millions of average swimmers. Those who are willing to accept the challenge of exploring and conquering a new world can benefit from past mistakes and the accumulation of experience by early skin divers; and perhaps become tomorrow’s pioneers who have yet to conquer the problems of great depths and reap the harvest on the bottom of the sea.

She is most definitely a chip off the old Shake Davis block. In fact, her Dad is more than a little proud of his daughter, who is both a research scientist oceanographer at the famed Woods Hole Institute and a U.S. Navy Reserve officer. When Tracey Davis is called to do her annual active duty stint at the Navy's diving center in the Florida panhandle, her retired Marine father thinks its a great opportunity where his only child will be well-occupied—and out of harms way. He's right and wrong. Lt. (j.g.) Tracey Davis is well-occupied leading active duty sailors at the base Ocean Systems office, but she's hardly safe. When an old friend from her days working in Belize shows up looking for one of the girls they saved from sex traffickers in Central America, Tracey finds herself in very deep and dangerous waters—full of marauding sharks and deadly human predators. "Dye...is a superb storyteller who gets his details and language right....When you pick up a Dale Dye book, you know it will be professional, well-written, and a page-turner." —David Wilson, VVA Books

What's the 'weirdest' sea creature you've ever seen?Did it have fins, or tentacles, or a shell?Did it wriggle, or skitter, or stay still as a rock?Did it sting, or cling, or hide?Join young explorers Jack and Jenny as they hunt for strangeness in the Chesapeake Bay. Together, you'll discover just how weird, wild, and wonderful a saltwater world can be!