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Useful Books

Reviews and overviews of books relating to the psychological aspects of diving and books that help divers to be fit-to-dive.

Under Pressure (2019) Gareth Lock

Blue Mind (2014) Wallace J. Nichols

Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Diving (1999) Baruch Nevo & Stephen Breitstein

Stress and Performance in Diving (1987) Arthur J. Bachrach & Glen H. Egstrom

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