An exciting new limited edition book, Diving With Legends, featuring Antigua professional scuba diver Martha Watkins Gilkes, was recently unveiled at the annual Our World Underwater Dive Show in Chicago, Illinois, USA.  Gilkes, along with many of the diving legends featured in the book was in attendance to be honoured with the presentation of a copy of the book and a limited edition Swiss-made DOXA SUB watch, the "Diving With Legends SUB 1200T HRV", to commemorate the occasion as the book was sponsored by DOXA Watches. The limited edition watch features a unique Diving With Legends logo, special engraved caseback and incorporates a Helium Release Valve. The watch is based on the vintage DOXA SUB 300T Conquistador which in 1969, was the first dive watch to feature this technology.

Diving With Legends is a unique book about some of the world’s top divers and adventurers.   It  contains stories about and written by legendary divers and is a mix of adventure, discovery, record dives and fantastic achievements in the underwater world from diving on the Titanic to exploring shipwrecks to dismantling underwater explosives. 

Gilkes has been a dynamic leader in the diving community for over 30 years. She has been involved in and has supported many different sectors of the diving industry including dive resort and retail operation, dive training and education, writing and photojournalism, historic shipwreck exploration and marine conservation. She has logged over 10,000 dives worldwide in tropical as well as cold marine environments, freshwater lakes, caves and caverns, and has published numerous articles and photographs.  Gilkes is also the author of Diving Guide to the Eastern Caribbean and Shipwrecks of the Caribbean. 

In 2006, Martha was listed in the United Nations Environmental Programme’s Who's Who of Women and the Environment for her work in marine conservation, and she co-produced the documentary Whaling in Our Waters with HAMA Productions.