📚 Skin Diving

Down on one breath: freediving’s technique, its records, and the shallow blue it studies.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject skin diving in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The silent world	Jacques Yves Cousteau	1953	31
	Scuba	John Reseck	1975	10
	The Dive	Pipin Ferreras	2004	8
	Skin Divers	Anne Michaels	1999	7
	Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves	James Nestor	2014	7
	Captain Cousteau's underwater treasury	Jacques Yves Cousteau	1959	6
	Diving for fun	Joe Strykowski	1971	5
	One breath	Adam Skolnick	2016	5
	Mask and flippers	Lloyd Bridges	1960	4
	Dive: the complete book of skin diving	Rick Carrier	1963	4
	The complete manual of skin diving	Alton Parker Balder	1968	4
	Men beneath the sea	Hans Hass	1975	4
	The young sportsman's guide to skin diving	Joan Ellman	1961	3
	Underwater swimming	George F. Brookes	1962	3
	Guide to the underwater	Bill Slosky	1966	3
	The golden guide to scuba diving	Wheeler J. North	1968	3
	Diving officers' handbook	George F. Brookes	1968	3
	The aquanauts	Arthur Schaffert	1971	3
	Red Sea Diver's Guide	Shlomo Cohen	1975	3
	This Is Diving	Duilio Marcante	1977	3
	Snorkelling for all	British Sub-Aqua Club	1991	3
	The dive sites of South Africa	Anton Koornhof	1993	3
	Scuba diving & snorkeling for dummies	John Newman	1999	3
	Dive	Lawson Wood	2014	3
	The skin diver	Elgin Ciampi	1960	2
	Skindiving in Australia	Edward Du Cros	1960	2
	Skin diving	Simon Dresner	1963	2
	Skin and scuba diving	Albert A. Tillman	1966	2
	Diving manual	British Sub-Aqua Club.	1968	2
	Underwater swimming	Mike Busuttili	1968	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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