Welcome to Chipola Divers! Home of the Sidemount Diving book and the Beyond thriller series!
The Dive Center
The Books
– Sidemount Diving book
– Thrillers
– Adventure
The Dive Center
Chipola Divers began as a full service dive center located just minutes from some of the best caves in North Florida at 5010 Fort Rd in Greenwood. Since retiring we have scaled down operations but we still offer overnight accommodations, several lines of products, self-serve gas fills to our overnight guests, and gas fills to all others by appointment. We have almost 10,000 cubic feet of banked 30% Nitrox. We also bank Trimix and O2. You can get any custom mix you like. All gas fills (except air) are charged by the cubic foot.
Our fill-station is open 24/7 to our overnight guests and to others by appointment. Back your vehicle right up to the fill station. Our whips are long enough to fill your tanks without removing them from your vehicle or you can choose to use the water bath. There’s enough lighting you can do this anytime of day or night, which makes it perfect for our overnight guests! We’ll settle the total tab for overnight accommodations and fills at the end of your visit. Cash, check, credit cards, PayPal, and Venmo are all welcome.
We also carry a small line of scuba diving gear from OMS, SEAC, Big Blue Dive Lights, Armadillo Sidemount System, and more! So if you end up needing to replace a hose, pick up some additional spools, or anything else, let us know..
The Books
Chipola Divers is the home of the world’s first Almost Comprehensive Guide to Sidemount Diving!
Rob Neto is known throughout the world as an expert in sidemount diving. And he has compiled a lot of his knowledge into The Almost Comprehensive Guide to sidemount diving. The 1st edition was released in 2015 and was a huge success. A few years later Rob began working on the 2nd edition of the book. A lot had happened since writing the 1st edition and this resulted in the 2nd edition being more than twice as long as the 1st edition. The 3rd edition is now available. While not as much changed in sidemount diving over the previous 5 years, there were some key things that happened that Rob felt should be included in The Almost Comprehensive Guide on Sidemount Diving. In addition to those updates, the 2nd edition was also edited and cleaned up. If you own a copy of the 2nd edition, there’s no need to purchase the 3rd edition (unless you just want a copy). Contact us by email to request a PDF of the updates.
There is now a Recreational Sidemount Diving edition, known as The Not So Comprehensive Guide. Printing costs for an interior color book 308 pages long are a bit on the high end and result in a cover price that might be out of reach for some divers. And let’s face it, not all divers want to do technical decompression dives or cave dives. The Recreational Sidemount Diving edition turned the focus to recreational open water diving. The chapters and sections relating to technical diving were removed and the images were updated to reflect recreational scuba diving. This resulted in a 200 page long book that can be sold for about 2/3s the price of the original Sidemount Diving Guide and putting it in the budget of more divers. If you’ve been holding out because of the price. Now is the time to grab your copy.
Sidemount Diving has been so popular that it is now being translated into several languages! The German edition, released in 2022, was the first such effort with the bulk of the work being done by Dirk Lehmann, a sidemount diving instructor living and diving in Germany near Hamburg. Books can be purchased directly from Taucher-Technik in Hamburg or through Amazon.
The Spanish edition, completed with the assistance of Ivonne Flores of Cozumel Abyss Divers, was released in the first part of 2023.
The Dutch edition, with the bulk of the work being done by Jurry de Vries, a sidemount diver living in the Netherlands was also released in 2023.
Rob is currently working on French and Portuguese translations.
Click on the book cover below and get your signed copy today!
Check out Rob’s Beyond Thriller series!
The series takes you into the dark world of cave diving, both physically and figuratively. Get ready to sit on the edge of your seat and hold your breath as you read these thrillers!
The award-winning
Beyond the Grate
The award-winning
Into the Darkness Beyond
The award-winning
Top New Release
Beyond Hope
The award-winning
Top New Release
Beyond the End of the Line
Check out Rob’s true adventure books.
He’s released the first book in two new series, one focused on his cave exploration in Cozumel, Mexico and one focused on his cave diving and exploration in Florida. Both are available in audiobook format read by Rob himself.
The award-winning Top New Release
Beneath the Jungle of Cozumel
Also available in audiobook format.
Top New Release
The Hidden Rivers of Florida
Available in audiobook format soon.
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