[1] After his father died at a young age, he eventually went to sea, where he spent the next forty years diving in the Pacific.
Pearl Diver: Adventuring Over and Under Southern Seas Victor Berge and Henry Wysham Lanier (as told to) Illustrations by Stephen Haweis Hardcover, dustjacket, first published, 1930 352pp.
Garden City Publishing Company, Inc. Garden City, New York Co-author Henry Wysham Lanier had Berge describe his career as a diver and his adventures around the world, with a stenographer making a verbatim transcript, from which Lanier then wrote this account.
Danger Is My Life Victor Berge Translated from the Swedish by Mervyn Savill Hardcover, dustjacket, first published, April 1954 184pp.
Hutchinson, London Covers his life in 'the South Seas' where he was later captured and brought to Java by the Japanese during the Pacific War.