This comprehensive survey of the people and events of scuba diving will be the culmination of two decades of exhaustive research effort and voluminous amounts of material by authors Albert A. Tillman and Zale Parry. The eventual four-volume-set of books will follow the style of history reporting, interpreting the sociological and psychological motivations from the chronological facts and oral history anecdotes of the landmark persons and events.

Cross references to the general lifestyles, movements, events and changes of the nation’s political, economic and social culture will illuminate the dramatic heroics and tragedies of the special field of scuba, the sport of diving. Over one-thousand in-depth interviews capstone the many years’ effort.

Zale Parry, an internationally-renown diving actress/stunt person, underwater photographer and early equipment tester, and Albert Tillman, a pioneer developer of various instruction, photographic and resort programs, have been involved participants and professionals in the entire scuba era. Their involvement in aquatics and diving precedes the mass impact of scuba, the sport of diving, by a number of years, all of which adds to a colorful and sometimes emotional rendering of a story that is told as much from their own views as from the impressions of the hundreds of pioneers and innovators who contributed.

Scuba America is designed to make sure the reader is on the scene, even “crawl inside the mind of a diver on a fatal plunge,” throughout special sections on the military, entertainment, instruction, exploration, monster confrontation, manufacturing, merchandising, invention, experiments and sport arenas. Never before has a new leisure activity and technological innovation exploded into the pattern of life of a people and flourished in a variety of applications and all within a recent and confinable period of time. The fascinating first-person accounts, extraordinary photographs and fast-paced narrative bring it all together in a clear, revealing panorama that produces an exciting human record of our times.

Scuba America is a hardbound limited edition printing. For more information, contact Whalestooth Publishing, 131 Bond Mill Road, Olga, WA 98279 or visit the Scuba America website at www.DivingHistory.com.

Homo Delphinus – The Dolphin Within Man

The book Homo Delphinus was an immediate success in Italy, France, Russia and most recently in Japan, where it has become a best seller and is considered to be the Bible for all breath-hold divers.

Author Jacques Mayol is a sea researcher, a world-famous diver widely acclaimed for his pioneering work in the field of deep breath-hold diving and for his historic, record-setting dive of 100 meter (330 feet), during a program of experimental and medical research in deep breath-hold diving. He was the first man to reach this remarkable depth, diving the way dolphins do, with one breath, defying the prediction of physiologists.

Throughout this book Jacques Mayol develops the concept “Homo Delphinus,” of which he is the original and sole father.

The revelation of his passion for the sea and for our marine “cousins,” the cetaceans, help to awaken our subconscious mind to questions that we never considered before: Does man really have an aquatic origin? How can man reawaken his dormant mental and spiritual faculties and the physiological mechanism from the depths of his psyche and genetic make-up to develop the potential of his aquatic origins, to become a “Homo Delphinus”?

Mayol courageously attempts to explain man’s affinity for water and the ocean in particular, and show the similarity of man’s “inner-ocean” with the primordial ocean. As a visionary man he develops the validity of the concept of underwater birth.

Mayol’s book Homo Delphinus, The dolphin within Man is not a “how-to” book. It is about “The Way” of man’s spiritual connection to the sea.

For more information, contact: Idelson-Gnocchi Publisher, 352-591-1136, www.idelson-gnocchi.com.

NAUI Self-Contained Educational System

NAUI has introduced a new self contained educational system for all levels of diving instruction. The self-contained educational system delivers learning flexibility whether in a home study environment or classroom setting. The Scuba Diver Course, designed for the new scuba student has everything the students will require to learn scuba. The kit is extremely thorough in its presentation through multiple mediums. Included is a video tape, audio tapes, textbooks and post certification tools such as a logbook and dive tables.

Other educational systems are available for NAUI Master Scuba Diver, NAUI

Advanced Scuba Diver, NAUI Scuba Diver en Español and NAUI Rescue Scuba Diver. Now, for the first time diver continuing education courses can be conducted via home school and independent study.

For further information on NAUI Worldwide affiliated stores, resorts, and certified diving instruction, contact NAUI Worldwide, (813) 628-6284, (800) 553-6284 or on the web at www.naui.org.