I Thought I Saw Atlantis: Reminiscences of a Pioneer Skin and Scuba Dive

For over 60 years Al Tillman, a dedicated diving pioneer, has worked to make skin and scuba diving a safe and enjoyable form of recreation for millions of people worldwide. In this informal panorama of recreational diving and its practices, Tillman recounts many of the most spectacular and monumental events in his journey through the underwater world. With a strong sense of the historical forces that made diving what it is today, he tells about his experiences from the personal associations with other pioneers to the large and small events that shaped diving. I Thought I Saw Atlantis will give both divers and non-divers a look into earth's vast underwater wilderness the way it was seen by early skin and scuba divers. It introduces you to men and women who dared to venture beneath the sea without any connection to the surface above. This is a story of adventure, history, and humor that will entice even the most timid individual to seek out their own Atlantis.