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  • Career In SCUBA

    How to Become a Dive Instructor and be Successful

    by Nick Derutter ...
    If you are ready to get serious about SCUBA diving as a career choice, let this book be a fast-pass through some of the mental, motivational and administrative obstacles that many of us have had to overcome when becoming a diving professional. This book covers everything you need to know to turn your life around and to start teaching SCUBA diving professionally. Some of the chapters include: 1. 7 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Wavewalker: A Memoir of Breaking Free

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing … a fantastic story of a truly Odyssean journey across all... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Misunderstood God

    The Lies Religion Tells About God

    by Darin Hufford ...
    The Misunderstood God tells the truth about who the Creator is. This book analyzes what religion says about God's heart and personality and measures it up to what God calls Himself: Love. It simplifies a generation's tangled perceptions of God by taking a journey through the sixteen aspects of love described in one of the most well-known Bible passages in the world: 1 Corinthians 13, also known as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Flying Off Everest

    A Journey from the Summit to the Sea

    by Dave Costello ...
    Perched impossibly on a ridge overlooking a 10,000-foot drop into Tibet, Sano Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa wait. Heel to toe, connected at the waist by a pair of carabineers that’s connected to nothing else, they stare down the North Face of Mount Everest, a red and white nylon tandem paragliding wing fluttering behind them. They know that jumping off the top of the world marks only the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Oxygen

    A Memoir

    LEARN THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST FREEDIVEROne of the most mesmerising books about the ocean you'll ever read...New Zealander William Trubridge has reached depths never thought possible on the precipice of low oxygen.In a sport where failure usually means blacking out, it is a freediver's daily life to contend with suffocation, narcosis, hallucinations, lactic acidosis, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The New Encyclopedia of Knots

    by Derek Avery ...
    A new reference book that includes knots, turns, bends and hitches together with decorative knots, plaits, sennits and mats. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Juice

    Epic Tales of Big Wave Surfing

    Edited by John Long, Sam George ...
    The best and newest big-wave surfing stories from the sport’s insiders More than a decade ago, John Long published his now classic The Big Drop, an unprecedented look at the larger-than-life frontier of big wave surfing. Since then, the sport has exploded in popularity. The big wave bar keeps rising as extreme surfers continue to seek out, surf, and survive a ride on the elusive 100-foot wave. The ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Crossing the Bar

    The Adventures of a San Francisco Bay Bar Pilot

    by Paul Lobo ...
    There is nothing placid about San Francisco Bay. Its raucous waters have hosted brutal storms, daring rescues, horrendous accidents, and countless hours of drama and tension. Captain Paul Lobo knows that better than most people. As a licensed harbor pilot in those treacherous waters, Lobo captained nearly 6,500 boats in a thirty-one year career-everything from mega-yachts to the USS Enterprise to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • One Breath

    Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits

    by Adam Skolnick ...
    One Breath is a gripping and powerful exploration of the strange and fascinating sport of freediving, and of the tragic, untimely death of America’s greatest freediverCompetitive freediving—a sport built on diving as deep as possible on a single breath—tests the limits of human ability in the most hostile environment on earth. The unique and eclectic breed of individuals who freedive at the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Swimming for Parents

    The Ultimate Education Guide for Swimming Parents

    by Gary Barclay ...
    The number one question asked by swimming parents around the world is: How can I help my child be the best swimmer they can possibly be? The answer is now available! You can go from being the new parent on the block, to knowing exactly what to say and do in a way that supports your child and helps them to excel in the sport of swimming in just a few hours. Swimming for Parents will help parents of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Godforsaken Sea

    Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters

    by Derek Lundy ...
    Godforsaken Sea is the hair-raising account of the world's most demanding, dangerous, and deadly sailing race. Around the world, one sailor, one boat, no stops, no assistance.Author Derek Lundy's vivid book follows the field of the 1996 - 1997 Vendee Globe through the race's grueling four-month circumnavigation of the globe, most of it through the terror of the Southern Ocean.Lundy narrates the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Over the Top

    The First Lone Yachtsman to Sail Vertically Around the World

    Only one person has ever sailed vertically around the world - Adrian Flanagan.Sailing horizontally is difficult enough, crossing thousands of miles of ocean only to get near land at the Capes and battle treacherous currents. However, hundreds of sailors have still managed it. Adrian became obsessed with the idea of sailing vertically around the world as a boy, before he even knew whether it was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • GPS for Mariners, 2nd Edition

    A Guide for the Recreational Boater

    The operator's manual that should come with every boater's GPS receiver or chart plotter. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Maiden Voyage

    by Tania Aebi ...
    What begins as the sheer desire for adventure turns into a spiritual quest as a young woman comes to terms with her family, her dreams, and her first love.Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night. In short, she was going nowhere—until her father offered her a challenge: Tania could choose either a college ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wave

    In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

    by Susan Casey ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this "wonderfully vivid, kinetic narrative" (The New York Times), the bestselling author of Voices in the Ocean captures colossal, ship-swallowing waves, and the surfers and scientists who seek them out.For legendary surfer Laird Hamilton, hundred foot waves represent the ultimate challenge. As Susan Casey travels the globe, hunting these monsters of the ocean with ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Boundary Waters Canoe Area: Western Region

    Find your way into the western BWCAW via 27 entry points, accessible near Ely, Minnesota.The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northeastern Minnesota—over a million acres of wilderness on the US-Canada border—is a magnet for visitors seeking to explore some of the most beautiful waterways in the world. With a canoe or kayak, you can paddle its remote lakes, rivers, waterfalls, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Le fate in nero. Napoleone Esposito indaga

    by Gino Corcione ...
    Estate 1985.Kattegat, un tratto di mare sconosciuto ai più dove si fondono le grigie acque del Mare del Nord e del mar Baltico: bassi fondali tra centinaia di scogli e isolotti che danno vita a correnti anomale. Nessuno che non l’abbia provato può immaginare cosa significhi essere sorpresi da una tempesta in quello stretto: il mondo è capovolto e basta un attimo di indecisione per morire. Cinque ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surf and Rescue

    George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture

    by Patrick Moser ...
    Series series Sport and Society
    The mixed-race Hawaiian athlete George Freeth brought surfing to Venice, California, in 1907. Over the next twelve years, Freeth taught Southern Californians to surf and swim while creating a modern lifeguard service that transformed the beach into a destination for fun, leisure, and excitement. Patrick Moser places Freeth’s inspiring life story against the rise of the Southern California beach ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Swimming in the Sink

    An Episode of the Heart

    by Lynne Cox ...
    In this stunning memoir of life after loss, the open-water swimming legend and bestselling author tells of facing the one challenge that no amount of training could prepare her for.A celebrated athlete who set swimming records around the world, Lynne Cox achieved astonishing feats of strength and endurance. She was the first to swim the frigid waters of the Bering Strait, the Strait of Magellan, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mine's Bigger

    The Extraordinary Tale of the World's Greatest Sailboat and the Silicon Valley Tycoon Who Built It

    As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all—from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France. But his ultimate dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat ever built.With keen storytelling and biting wit, bestselling author David A. Kaplan takes us inside ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • La felicità è oltre le Colonne d'Ercole

    Tutti gli armatori almeno una volta hanno pensato: “Ah! Se la mia barca potesse parlare…”. È proprio Steel Lady, un ketch a vela ormeggiato nel porto di Genova, in vendita, a raccontare la sua storia.Dopo i lunghi anni trascorsi in porto, la barca, esuberante e impaziente di riprendere a navigare, incontra una giovane coppia che fa al caso suo. Con Mauro e Michela inizia una nuova avventura: sarà ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain

    A Mother Jones' Best Book of the Year"A beautiful ode to the act of swimming outdoors. . . . Deakin’s insistence on wild swimming for all is really an insistence on a better ecosystem for all." —The AtlanticA masterpiece of nature writing, Roger Deakin’s Waterlog is a fascinating and inspiring journey into the aquatic world that surrounds us.In an attempt to discover his island nation from a new ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Working Guide to Traditional Small-Boat Sails

    A How-To Handbooks for Owners and Builders

    Make your modern sailboat look (and work) like a salty classic.The Golden Age of Sail is long past, sadly, and much of its lore is nearly extinct. Sailboats now almost uniformly use the Bermudan sloop rig—a triangular jib and a triangular mainsail. But that rig evolved mainly to meet esoteric yacht-racing measurement rules. It is not necessarily the most efficient or effective rig. This book lets ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Water in Between

    A Journey at Sea

    A broken heart leads Kevin Patterson to the dock of a sailboat brokerage on Vancouver Island, where he stands contemplating the romance of the sea and his heartfelt desire to get away. By the end of the day, he finds himself the owner of a thirty-seven-foot ketch called Sea Mouse. Although he's never really been on the ocean before (aside from the odd ferry-ride), he feels compelled to sail to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD