USU SCUBA Club

Club Reference Library

The USU Scuba Club has a small (but growing) reference library of books, magazines, videos, and maps. Most of the items listed below are the property of the club president, but we will be adding to a club collection as soon as we have funds to do so. These materials may be borrowed by any paid member by contacting the club president. They are primarily educational in nature, and cover a variety of topics related to scuba diving: official dive instruction materials, guides to dive site locations (especially in California), identification guides to marine life, etc. Here's the official list (with links to Amazon listings or other descriptions):

Books

General Diver Education

• PADI Open Water Diver Manual (short-term loans only, I use this a lot)
• NAUI Master Scuba Diver Manual
• PADI Divemaster Manual
• Doing It Right: The Fundamentals of Better Diving

Specialty Education

• The Essential Underwater Photography Manual
• The American Littoral Society Handbook for the Marine Naturalist

Guides to Underwater Life

• Fishes of the Pacific Coast: Alaska to Peru, Including the Gulf of California and the Galapagos Islands
• A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes: North America
• Probably More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast
• The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific
• Coastal Fish Identification: California to Alaska
• Guide to the Coastal Marine Fishes of California
• Guide to Marine Invertebrates: Alaska to Baja California

Guides to Dive Locations

• Diving & Snorkeling Monterey Peninsula & Northern California
• A Living Bay: The Underwater World of Monterey Bay
• A Diver's Guide to Southern California's Best Beach Dives

Magazines

• Dive Training - various issues
• Scuba Diving - various issues
• Alert Diver - various issues
• Sport Diver - various issues
• California Diving News - various issues
• Northwest Dive News - various issues

Videos

• PADI Open Water DVD
• Ocean Oasis (DVD)

Maps

• Franko's Map of Monterey (CA)
• Franko's Map of Los Angeles County Coast Diving (CA)
• Franko's Dive Map of Greater San Diego County Coast (CA)

Other Local Resources

USU Library

• Book: NOAA Diving Manual (2001 edition)
• Book: Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest

Logan Public Library

• Many DVDs on marine animals and environments
• Book: Complete wreck diving : a guide to diving wrecks
• Book: Deep descent : adventure and death diving the Andrea Doria
• Book: Shadow divers : the true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II
• Book: The last dive : a father and son's fatal descent into the ocean's depths
• Book: Beyond the deep : the deadly descent into the world's most treacherous cave