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A Beautiful Color/Hardcover Collector's Gift Edition. There is also a roughly $20.00 paperback edition. A perfect gift for that diver in your life! SCUBA diving is thriving in the New York Area. The diving up here is much more challenging than warm water destinations due to our local conditions of cold temperatures, low visibility and currents. Written for the diver and the non-diver, this book draws the reader into the exciting world of Northeast SCUBA Diving. The book opens with an ‘Introduction to SCUBA Diving’ that explains the equipment, local conditions and dangers of diving to those new to the sport. With over 70 true stories of local dives this book has the reader descending to local shipwrecks such as the USS San Diego and ocean liner Oregon sunk in the Atlantic off Long Island. The book also has a number of dive site maps. The stories, chronicle the author’s diving adventures and what it feels like to dive locally both exploring the wrecks and from popular shore diving sites .