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Complete Wreck Diving: A Guide to Diving Wrecks  For a comprehensive wreck diving course, Complete Wreck Diving is an excellent companion text. Starting with the types of ships and how wrecks deteriorate, Keatts and Skerry cover a broad range of topics in an organized and progressive manner. Included are sections on researching and finding wrecks; specialized equipment and configurations; pre-dive preparations; what to look for and expect in a charter boat; diving the wreck with special emphasis on hazards and navigation; what clues to look for to help identify a wreck; artifact recovery and conservation; legal ramification of diving wrecks and removing artifacts; special techniques for photographing wrecks. Written in an engaging style with ample use of the authors? first hand experiences, even veteran wreck divers will find much valuable information in Complete Wreck Diving. Diving the World (Footprint - Activity Guides)  The newest addition to Footprint's burgeoning series of activity guides, "Diving the World", takes the underwater adventurer on a magical tour of many of the world's top dives. Some 200 prime sites have been carefully selected, reviewed and photographed by experienced husband-and-wife team, Beth and Shaun Tierney. From the pristine reefs of Papua New Guinea to the warm waters of the Belize Barrier Reef and the legendary wrecks of Micronesia's Truk Lagoon, there's something for everyone. The guide also features personal opinions and anecdotes from both experts and other divers, as well as recommendations of what to do and see on dry land.Author: Beth Tierney, Shaun Tierney Paperback: 352 pages Company: Footprint Handbooks (2006-05-01) ISBN: 1904777597 List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $17.74 Used Price: $16.85 Complete Diving Manual  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:
With the Complete Diving Manual, you can investigate every aspect of this great sport. Let the adventures begin. Diving into Darkness: A True Story of Death and Survival  On New Year's Day, 2005, David Shaw traveled halfway around the world on a journey that took him to a steep crater in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa, a site known as Bushman's Hole. His destination was nearly 900 feet below the surface. On January 8th he descended into the water. About fifteen feet below the surface was a fissure in the bottom of the basin, barely wide enough to admit him. He slipped through the opening and disappeared from sight, leaving behind the world of light and life. Then, a second diver descended through the same crack in the stone. This was Don Shirley, Shaw's friend, and one of the few people in the world qualified to follow where Shaw was about to go. In the community of extreme diving, Don Shirley was a master among masters. Twenty-five minutes later, one of the men was dead. The other was in mortal peril, and would spend the next 10 hours struggling to survive, existing literally from breath to breath. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but it?s also a compelling human story of friendship, heroism, ambition, and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy. Author: Phillip Finch Hardcover: 320 pages Company: St. Martin's Press (2008-09-30) (2008-09-30) ISBN: 0312383940 List Price: $25.95 Amazon Price: $12.97 Used Price: $17.74 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly  Paperback: 132 pages Company: Vintage International (1998) ISBN: 0375701214 List Price: Amazon Price: $255.02 Used Price: $25.99 Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die: Diving Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations  The earth?s oceans hold many wondrous surprises?be they the small, colorful ?critters? off the coast of Papua New Guinea, opportunistic red demon squids in the Sea of Cortes, or naval wrecks in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. In Fifty Places to Dive Before You Die Chris Santella has invited diving experts from around the world to share some of their favorite destinations, so ardent divers can experience these underwater wonders for themselves?either on location in their SCUBA gear, or at home in their armchair.
The fifth in Santella?s bestselling ?Fifty Places? series, the book takes divers from hot-spot destinations like Raja Ampat (off the coast of West Guinea) to old Caribbean favorites like Grand Cayman Isles. Readers will swim among whale sharks off Myanmar, befriend wolf eels off the coast of Maine, and marvel at the giant mola mola of Lembognan, Indonesia. These wonderful creatures?plus the brilliant coral reefs that often provide their backdrop?are captured in 40 gorgeous color photos from the world?s greatest underwater photographers. And for readers who want to travel to these breathtaking locales, Santella provides complete ?If You Go? suggestions to help you plan your trip. Author: Chris Santella Hardcover: 224 pages Company: Stewart, Tabori & Chang (2008-10-01) ISBN: 158479710X List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $15.19 Used Price: $15.56 DAN Pocket Guide to First Aid for Scuba Diving  Know exactly what to do for all scuba diving first aid situations. High-tech laser printing on hard vinyl sheets make this pocket-sized "how to" guide virtually indestructible and completely portable. Waterproof. Dirtproof. You can even mark up pages with a grease pencil then wipe clean. Spiral binding allows you to fully open the book anywhere and lay it flat. Fully illustrated with easy-to-follow instructions. Index-tabbed pages allow you to quickly access the information you need. "What you really need to know, when you really need it!" Tabbed sections include: Emergency Assistance Plan, Dive Injury Information Form, Safety Assessment, Injured Diver Assessment, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), Bleeding, Physical Assessment, Field Neurological Exam, Positioning of the Injured Diver, Oxygen First Aid, Bone and Joint Injuries, Carbon Monoxide Toxicity, Decompression Illness (DCI), Subcutaneous Emphysema/Mediastinal Emphysema/Pneumothorax, Seafood Poisoning, Heart Attack/Cardiac Arrest, Seizures, Spinal Injuries, Squeeze/Barotrauma, Seasickness (Motion Sickness), Oxygen Toxicity, Allergic Reactions, Thermal Injuries and Marine Animal Injuries. Pocket Guides are jam-packed with critical information from field experts. World renowned Pocket Guides have had an international almost cult-like following for over ten years. Virtually indestructible and completely indispensable, Pocket Guides are perfect for enthusiasts and gift giving. Join the experts and carry Pocket Guides. Select from 28 Sports/Hobbies, Fishing and Emergency Assistance titles. POCKET GUIDES: The Biggest Little Books You'll Ever Need. Finally, you can take it with you! Diving Science  Prepare for each underwater adventure and its challenges. Diving Science will help you anticipate, recognize, and respond to the physical, physiological, and psychological stresses encountered in sport diving. Written by two experts in diving physiology and medicine, this comprehensive resource will help you manage each stage of a dive more safely and successfully. Whether you?re on the surface or bottom, in the descent or ascent, you?ll know exactly what to do and when to do it. With information on everything from on-gassing and off-gassing to first response interventions for medical problems, Diving Science is as essential as a wetsuit for your next dive. Use the book?s diving-specific fitness specifications to learn how to make diving safe and enjoyable at any age. And apply the detailed equipment recommendations to prepare properly for each dive. Diving Science provides a wealth of information useful to all divers. Tap into this treasure chest before each dive to ensure it is your best and safest yet. SCUBA Diving the Wrecks and Shores of Long Island, NY  SCUBA diving is thriving in the New York Area. The diving up here is much more challenging than warm water destinations due to our local conditions of cold temperatures, low visibility and currents. Written for both the diver and the non-diver, this book draws the reader into the exciting world of Northeast Technical SCUBA Diving. The book opens with an 'Introduction to SCUBA Diving' that explains the equipment, local conditions and dangers of diving to those new to the sport. Consisting of over 70 true stories of local dives this book has the reader descending with the author on numerous local shipwrecks such as the USS San Diego and ocean liner Oregon, both over 500 feet long and sunk in the Atlantic off of Long Island. The book also contains a number of dive site maps. The stories, chronicle the author's diving adventures and what it feels like to dive locally both exploring the wrecks and from popular shore diving sites . A site/equipment index allows the reader to also use the book to experience specific wrecks and sites. Let's say you have never dove the USS San Diego, a naval Armored Cruiser that sank in 1918 off of Fire Island. You can easily find all the stories about dives on her in order of increasing difficulty. Or you are considering getting an underwater scooter. You can locate all the stories where a scooter was an important part. Perhaps you want to understand how a reel helps keep a diver from getting lost inside a wreck or what its like to be entangled by a line of reel inside a wreck. Interested in finding out more of the dangers of technical decompression diving? It's all here in this book. This book takes you diving..Author: David L Rosenthal Paperback: 372 pages Company: The Wharves Project (2008-02-01) ISBN: 0979385202 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $16.21 Used Price: $17.65 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Vintage International) (Vintage International)  In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the 43-year-old editor of French Elle, suffered a massive stroke that left him permanently paralyzed, a victim of ?locked in syndrome.? Once known for his gregariousness and wit, Bauby now finds himself imprisoned in an inert body, able to communicate only by blinking his left eye. The miracle is that in doing so he was able to compose this stunningly eloquent memoir.In a voice that is by turns wistful and mischievous, angry and sardonic, Bauby gives us a celebration of the liberating power of consciousness: what it is like to spend a day with his children, to imagine lying in bed beside his wife, to conjure up the flavor of delectable meals even as he is fed through at tube. Most of all, this triumphant book lets us witness an indomitable spirit and share in the pure joy of its own survival. Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby Paperback: 144 pages Company: Vintage (2007-11-20) (2007-11-20) ISBN: 0007790155 List Price: $12.95 Amazon Price: $7.15 Used Price: $6.23 |