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Well we've done The Last Dive & Deep Descent to death - very definitely worthy of a read is 'Ship of gold in the deep blue sea' - brilliant salvage book & well written. Currently working my way through 'Trawler', slightly impenetrable in a lot of respects but has (so far) lots of human interest in terms of life at sea in the North Atlantic and the fun & games that the trawlermen have when onshore in the Orkneys - most of the guys on the boat have no front teeth cos they go a bit mad when in town and batter ferk out of each other.
Trouble is, there aren't nearly enough really good diving books about so if you want to spread your wings a bit I can definitely recommend good mountain-climbing books. These blokes are proper nutters and there are some great reads about. 'Into Thin Air' by John Krakauer and anything by Joe Simpson will have you spellbound. Very off-topic I know but I read shitloads of books & most of the divers I've lent these books to have rated them.
There are apparently a good few cave diving books around but they can be a git to get hold of. However, a maniac by the name of Dr Jerome Meynie recently did a 184m cave dive on CCR and the book he read on his stops was 'Down to a Sunless Sea' by David Poyer which definitely merits further investigation.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the cave diving books of note will be better than the -admittedly few - regular diving books I've read, just by dint of the people who wrote them.
Caves measureless to man is by all accounts a bit of a classic.
EDIT: Arrgh - just ordered the Poyer book and by it appears to be a Clive Cussler-type thriller. Still, worth a go.