SCUBA Best Sellers of the Last 3 Months

The SCUBA Travel best selling diving books in the first quarter of 2009. Yet again the Dive Atlas of the World keeps its top spot. Previous quarter's position is shown in brackets.

1. Dive Atlas of the World: An Illustrated Reference to the Best Sites by Jack Jackson
   300 pages detailing some of the world's best dive sites. (1)
2. Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die: Diving Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations by Chris Santella
   The fifth in Santella's bestselling "Fifty Places" series. (2)
3. Dive in Style by Tim Simond
   Luxury diving around the world.(4)
4. Dive Red Sea: The Ultimate Guide by Simon Rogerson and John McIntyre
   Covers popular Red Sea diving areas: mostly Egypt.(--)
5. Coral Reef Guide Red Sea (Coral Reef) by Ewald Lieske, Robert Myers
   Covering jellyfish, corals, nudibranchs, starfish, sea urchins, fishes and turtles of the Red Sea. (3)
6. Coral Reef Fishes: Indo-Pacific and Caribbean by Ewald Lieske, Robert Myers
   A compact, guide to over 2000 species of fish you might see whilst diving on coral reefs. (8)
7. Dive: The Ultimate Guide To 60 Of The Worlds Top Dive Locations by Monty Halls
   Describes 60 of the world's best diving areas, and highlights specific dives not to be missed whilst you are there. (6)
8. Diver Down: Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them by Michael R. Ange
   Reveals how scuba diving accidents leading to severe injury or death usually result from a chain of events that can and should be prevented before a tragedy occurs. (7)
9. Red Sea Reef Guide by Helmut Debelius
   Guide to marine life of the Red Sea (10)
10. Thailand (Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Guides) by Tim Rock
    Dive sites of Thailand. Includes city guide to Bangkok. (5)

SCUBA Diving Best Sellers of 2008

SCUBA Travel are pleased to release the list of the best selling books and DVDs bought by SCUBA divers at our site in 2008. For the fifth consecutive year, The Dive Atlas of the World retains its top spot! Its author, Jack Jackson, has two entries in the list, with Diving with Giants at number nine. A new entry at number three is Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die, which was only published last October. Perhaps the best performer though is the Blue Planet DVD. This has not been out of the top ten since the list began in 2001.

Here are the top ten: figures in brackets show the previous year's position.

1. Dive Atlas of the World: An Illustrated Reference to the Best Sites by Jack Jackson
   300 pages detailing some of the world's best dive sites. (1)
2. Dive in Style by Tim Simond
   Luxury diving around the world.(6)
3. Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die: Diving Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations by Chris Santella
   The fifth in Santella's bestselling ""Fifty Places"" series. (--)
4. Coral Reef Fishes: Indo-Pacific and Caribbean by Ewald Lieske, Robert Myers
   A compact, guide to over 2000 species of fish you might see whilst diving on coral reefs. (7)
5. Thailand (Lonely Planet Diving & Snorkeling Guides) by Tim Rock
   Dive sites of Thailand. Includes city guide to Bangkok. (--)
6. Dive: The Ultimate Guide To 60 Of The Worlds Top Dive Locations by Monty Halls,
   Describes 60 of the world's best diving areas, and highlights specific dives not to be missed whilst you are there (2)
7. Coral Reef Guide Red Sea (Coral Reef) by Ewald Lieske, Robert Myers
   Covering jellyfish, corals, nudibranchs, starfish, sea urchins, fishes and turtles of the Red Sea. (10)
8. Diving the World by Beth and Shaun Tierney
   Reviews 200 dive sites (--)
9. Diving with Giants by Jack Jackson
   Features the best places to dive with pelagic species. (--)
10. The Blue Planet DVD
    The BBC television series on DVD - action shots of the intriguing behaviour of the underwater world with commentary by David Attenborough. (9)

Current and Previous Bestsellers

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