The Certified Diver's Handbook: The Complete Guide to Your Own Underwater Adventures
by Clay Coleman
from International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
The real-world guide for divers who want to enjoy their sport to the fullest
More than half of the 1.5 million people who achieve scuba certification each year are stymied in their pursuit of the sport because they lack time and money to enjoy the exotic diving experiences they've read about, and don't want to be confined to group dives. The Certified Diver's Handbook is the only guide to help them create their own diving adventures on any budget, on any schedule, in waters local or distant, and without the restrictions of group demands. Thirty-year diving veteran and photojournalist Clay Coleman provides the insider's tips and how-to advice divers need to equip, plan, and execute their own diving expeditions. Divers will learn how to:
- Buy or rent the best SCUBA equipment at the best prices
- Plan dives to maximize enjoyment and safety
- Find great diving sites close to home
- Master underwater rescue procedures and shore- and night-diving techniques
- Explore wrecks, reefs, and underwater caves
Manual of Freediving: Underwater on a Single Breath (Freediving)
by Umberto Pelizzari
from Idelson Gnocchi Pub
Is the first comprehensive manual that teaches how to hold the breath, stay underwater longer, and descend deeper into the blue. The book includes a history of freediving, and detailed drawings of underwater exercises, finning techniques and selected Yoga postures to enhance lung capacity. This book is highly recommended to Skin-divers, Scuba-Divers and Surfers. It teaches how to hold the breath longer under water.
Scuba Diving & Snorkeling for Dummies
by John Newman
from For Dummies
For millions of Americans, diving offers the chance to get away from everyday life and enter a world of stunning natural beauty and fascinating complexity. And getting started is a breeze! Anyone can learn to dive safely and explore the world’s wondrous oceans – all it takes is a little training and basic equipment.
Scuba Diving & Snorkeling For Dummies presents all the fundamentals for anyone interested in getting dive certified or just looking for good snorkeling while on vacation. Written by PADI-Certified diver John Newman, this friendly guide covers everything you need to know to:
- Get certified
- Plan a great diving trip
- Save money on equipment
- Dive or snorkel safely
This user-friendly guide starts by helping you evaluate your underwater skills and walking you step by step through a typical certification program. Once you’re certified, it helps you pick a dive site, purchase and set up your equipment, and take care of any fears you might have. Then you’ll discover what to expect on your first dive – from which creatures are dangerous to how to protect fragile sea life. Scuba Diving & Snorkeling For Dummies also covers these topics and more:
- Free diving
- Special breathing techniques
- Emergency procedures
- How to avoid the bends
- Handling dive anxiety
- The physics and chemistry of diving
- Staying healthy on dive trips
- Ocean ecosystems
- Rip tides and tidal waves
- Ten great dive destinations
In addition to beautiful full-color photography and all the information you need to plan a dive trip, the book also includes a handy appendix of dive organizations and publications, as well as a CD-ROM sampler from PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors). Whether you’re a novice diver or an old hand, Scuba Diving & Snorkeling For Dummies is perfect for anyone who wants to see the beauty of the ocean from a fish’s point of view.
NOAA Diving Manual: Diving for Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
from Best Pub Co
his completely revised Fourth Edition of the NOAA Diving Manual, Diving for Science and Technology, is one of the most detailed diving reference books available and is a valuable resource for all who are interested in a complete encyclopedia of diving technology, equipment, techniques, and procedures.
More than 100 authors and reviewers, selected from a diverse spectrum of experts in recreational scuba diving, commercial, military, scientific and research diving, combined their expertise to address the complex issues involved in today's diving.
This new edition contains twenty-one chapters on all aspects of diving: techniques to improve the methodology of underwater scientific research, new gear, operational techniques and details to assist the diver in diving safely. In addition, there are ten appendices, including a glossary, references, and a detailed index. The technologies of rebreathers and mixed gas diving, including nitrox and oxygen are included; diving physics, physiology, decompression and diving medicine have been updated to reflect the recent development in the diving industry. The never-before-published NOAA Nitrox Tables and Nitrox Diving Procedures allow deeper and/or longer bottom times to increase diver efficiency when using nitrox, without affecting safety or increasing decompression time. The most current and up-to-date U.S. Navy Dive Tables are also included. The NOAA Diving Manual is a valuable resource all serious divers must have!
Complete Diving Manual
by Jack Jackson
from International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Explore the underwater world
From basic diving certification topics and techniques to advanced technical diving, Complete Diving Manual has everything you need—all in full, stunning color. Whether you're an experienced diver or haven't yet gotten your C-card, your passport to diving expeditions is here, including:
- Choosing, using, maintaining, and storing equipment
- Basic training, from pool to open water
- Diving physiology, including buoyancy, behavior of gases, the bends, and hypothermia
- Dive planning, including decompression dives
- Safety and first aid
- Diving reefs, wrecks, and caves; warm and cold water; boat diving, and more
- Diving for marine biology, archaeology, photography, and videography
- Prime locations for the best diving excursions worldwide
With the Complete Diving Manual, you can investigate every aspect of this great sport. Let the adventures begin.
The Scuba Diving Handbook: The Complete Guide to Safe and Exciting Scuba Diving
by John Bantin
from Firefly Books
An essential resource for divers.
This comprehensive reference has information for divers of all levels, from the beginning basics to advanced skills and techniques for those with more experience. With its 350 full color photographs, easy-to-understand diagrams and tips from professionals, this book covers everything: the descent from the surface and the ascent back; all breathing techniques required; and advanced skills for cave diving, wreck diving, and search and recovery using the latest technology.
Combining detailed instruction with step-by-step exercises and practice programs, The Scuba Diving Handbook guides divers as they explore all aspects of the sport. Among the topics:
- Choosing an instructor
- The science of scuba
- Deep diving
- Raising heavy objects
- Equipment failure
- Boat handling before, during and after a dive
- Diving with big animals nearby
- Exploring wrecks
- Finding (or avoiding) shark-infested waters.
There is a wealth of information for planning diving trips in temperate, tropical and even arctic waters, as well as expert advice on conquering fear, using underwater cameras and avoiding the bends. This book is ideal for any diver -- both newcomers requiring intensive guidance and advanced divers seeking a quick brush-up.
Essentials of Sea Survival
by Frank Golden
from Human Kinetics Publishers
Be prepared for the worst! Each year, 140,000 water-related deaths occur worldwide. Essentials of Sea Survival will both prepare you to avoid disaster and to respond optimally in a potentially deadly situation. Frank Golden and Michael Tipton, internationally acclaimed experts on cold-water survival, present the science and step-by-step action plans for staying alive in open water. Be smart, be safe, and be prepared, because there are no second chances at sea.
Commercial Diver Training Manual, 5th Ed
from Best Publishing Company
This new edition has been revised and expanded to cover the - how to - for the broadest possible range of underwater diving conditions and dive situations. Its primary purpose is to provide for the protection of human safety and the improvement of diver performance. It was written as a companion piece and complement to the NOAA Diving Manual, which covers the fundamentals that commercial divers need to know related to physics, physiology, diving medicine, first aid, marine animals, etc.
It is a comprehensive training text that covers the major aspects of commercial diving for divers who plan to work either offshore or as an inland diver. The Commercial Diver Training Manual is intended to make learning the techniques and information necessary to become a commercial diver easier and quicker to learn. If it helps to make commercial diving safer and more comprehensible for the new diver, its purpose has been met. The only book to cover the entire compulsory national syllabus for the Examination in Commercial Diving, this manual is written by divers with the ability to make a complex subject intelligible to both working divers and trainees. Discusses all of the theoretical and practical aspects of the trade, including underwater skills, use of hand and hydraulic tools, arc welding, cutting, explosives, and working with concrete, and many other underwater projects.
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