Dive: The Ultimate Guide to 60 of the World’s Top Dive Locations

For starters, this 320-page book has more than 300 color photographs and maps, and references top more than 400 dives, all the way from North Carolina to Catalina, from Wakatobi to Uepi in the Solomons, to Fiji, Yap and the incredible Aussie wreck of the Yongala. If you have heard of it, author Monty Halls has included it, with information on water temperature, visibility, specific dives and depths and critters, and a beginner-to-expert grading system. There’s information about recompression chambers and dive governing bodies, travel and accommodations, local culture, visa requirements, related web sites, and even airlines that Hall, in his years of leading travel groups worldwide, finds to be diver friendly. Currently $19.97 at Undercurrent, where you link direct to Amazon.com. Buy through Undercurrent, and our profits will go to support coral reef protection worldwide.