About the Author

Bernie Chowdhury is the founder and co-publisher of The Inteinational Technical Diving Magazine. A world-class diver, Explorers Club Fellow, and a recognized expert on extreme sport diving, he also makes documentary films and is a frequent lecturer.

Reviews

"Bernie Chowdhury has written a book that seems to explore diving and the deep, cruel sea but in reality he has written a book about exploring a place even deeper and far crueler, the human psyche and our often unfulfilled souls. We should thank him for the illumination."-- Homer Hickam, author of "October Sky"?Going as deep as the most daring military divers, but without the military's advanced technology or life-saving support, a father and son explore realms as alien as any in space. They swim for the sheer joy of exploration into a mesmerizing adventure undertaken at overwhelming cost.?-- Sherry Sontag, co-author of "Blind Man's Bluff"?While reading "The Last Dive" I could feel myself hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface. I had dreams where I felt the pressure and floated in the beauty. The story is well told and once I started, I could barely come up for air.? -- Daniel Hays, co-author of "My Old Man and the Sea"?Meticulously detailed and dramatically paced, a tragic story told deftly and with the rare authority that comes only from personal experience.?-- Patrick Dillon, author of "Lost at Sea"?This book gave me more palpitations than any dive I've done myself. Bernie Chowdhury is a true modern-day explorer who penetrates not just sunken ships but the minds of those who risk their lives to explore them. The climactic last fatal dive left me as out of breath as the divers he wrote about.?-- Kenneth Kamler, M.D., Vice President, The Explorers Club"A suspenseful tale [that] amounts to one long nail-biter...will leave even surface-dwellers gasping for air.--" Philadelphia Enquirer" about the Audio Edition of" The Last Dive ""Superbly written and action-packed, "The LastDive" ranks with such adventure classics as "The Perfect Storm" and "Into Thin Air."--" Tampa Tribune"