The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths (2000)[1] is a
non-fiction book written by
diverBernie Chowdhury and published by
HarperCollins. It documents the fatal dive of Chris Rouse, Sr. and Chris "Chrissy" Rouse, Jr., a father-son team who perished off the New Jersey coast in 1992. The author is a dive expert and was a friend of the Rouses.[2]
Chowdhury is a technical diver who, according to writer Neal Matthews' review of
Robert Kurson's book Shadow Divers (2004), "was among the first to adapt cave-diving principles to deep-water wrecks".[3] Also according to Matthews, "His book documents how the clashes of equipment philosophy between cave divers and wreck divers mirrored the clash of diving subcultures."[3]
The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths (2000)[1] is a
non-fiction book written by
diverBernie Chowdhury and published by
HarperCollins. It documents the fatal dive of Chris Rouse, Sr. and Chris "Chrissy" Rouse, Jr., a father-son team who perished off the New Jersey coast in 1992. The author is a dive expert and was a friend of the Rouses.[2]
Chowdhury is a technical diver who, according to writer Neal Matthews' review of
Robert Kurson's book Shadow Divers (2004), "was among the first to adapt cave-diving principles to deep-water wrecks".[3] Also according to Matthews, "His book documents how the clashes of equipment philosophy between cave divers and wreck divers mirrored the clash of diving subcultures."[3]