Scuba Diving Books

Learn the 10 Commandments for Safe Diving:
1. Basic Skin and Scuba Equipment.
2. Scuba tanks and compressed air.
3. Skills of skin and scuba diving.
4. Environment and marine life.
5. Diving and pressure.
6. Medical facts of diving.
7. Planning a Scuba Dive.
8. First aid for diving accidents.
9. Requirements for skin and scuba diving.
10. Glossary of Skin and Scuba Diving Terms. Also includes
the most recent (at the time of publishing) United States Navy
Diving Tables.
This book has been such a valued resource, that it has sold more than
2 Million Copies.

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Don't approach this book in that manner. Wallow in it like a pig on steroids. You could approach this collection like a fine wine, sniff the cork, swirl it in your Riedel crystal goblet, but wouldn't you rather pour yourself a big glass, gulp it down and then, get out on the dance floor and do the Watusi?
These stories are a night at the carnival. All of your emotions will suit up and take a ride-from the hilarious "Adrift on The Gulf Stream" to the awe inspiring last story/essay, "Everest at The Bottom of The Sea". Bucky McMahon is your tour guide to the strange worlds where angels fear to tread, where all but the most extreme of the extreme take pause. He even takes you into his dreams. Scary place. Prose like this, smooth and tender and surprising, even laugh out loud funny, is harder to come by than a lucid phrase from the mouth of George Bush. Better yet, this book will make you forget George Bush. For a while anyway. You'll drift off to South America, Alaska, to Nicaragua, to the very moon.
You'll go to where great books are supposed to take you. Buy a copy now. Or maybe two.

Although I was unable to purchase this text at Amazon, I came here first. When it becomes available again at Amazon, this is a must read. This book opens the door to the many possibilities of limited visibility diving and would make an excellent companion to any specialty course text.

This is a very exciting, colorful and amusing manual, very interesting to read, yet enough to pass SSI Open Water Exams, and become a comfortable and proficient diver.

The first chapter explains what equipment do you need for diving, and the miscellaneous details about the equipment. The second chapter gives you proper procedures for entering the water, descending and equalizing pressure, establishing and maintaining neutral buoyancy, ascending, safety stops and exiting the water.

Chapter three, "Your Body and the Underwater World", make you able to understand the effects of increasing pressure on your body, understand how breathing compressed gas affects you body, understand the basic function of respiration, understand partial pressure and how they apply you as a diver, know basic procedures to adapt to the underwater environment, know proper ascent procedures under normal and emerging conditions and know the causes, treatment and prevention of Nitrogen Narcosis, Decompression Sickness and overexpansion injuries.

After completing the chapter four, "Planning and executing your dive", you will know why divers need to use Dive Tables or a dive computer on every dive, how other factors can affect nitrogen absorption and decompression, the value of diving with a buddy and buddy team functioning, and how to execute your dive.

Chapter five is about the underwater world: fundamentals of wave, tide and current action and how this affect divers, what surge and surf are, proper diver techniques as they relate to surge and surf, how coral reefs form and their global importance, species of marine life including potentially hazardous marine life.

The final sixth chapter is about the SSI organization: Universal Referral Network, Continuing Education Ratings, SSI Levels of Recognition, the types of training included in the SSI Dive Control Specialist course.

There are numerous useful tips, tricks and advices throughout the book, and lots of nice color photographs. This is a very exciting book!

A Pictorial History of Diving provides a lavishly illustrated, brief, but comprehensive review of diving history, from early breath-hold diving and primitive diving bells to modern developments like ROV's and the Newtsuit. Unlike many other books on the subject, it also includes information on underwater habitats and recreational gear. An excellent photo section on early dive helmets rounds out the history and provides some fuel for the imagination. A great coffee table book and serious reader in one volume!

this is a very informative book, providing many answers to questions you may not have asked. Safety, procedures, legal liability issues, diving operations are all thought about and discussed.

This is the 42nd book from this author and he is still going strong. More importantly, within these pages the visiting diver will find all the information he is looking for. Whilst some might argue there are already too many diving guides to this area, this guide stands apart from all others because it has it all.

The book commences with a very interesting and informative view of Orkney. Next we have a fascinating potted history of how the German High Seas Fleet came to be interned and then scuttled followed by the story of the salvaging of many of those vessels. Then there is the information required by all visiting divers "Travelling and Staying in Orkney" with notes on how to get there, where to stay and what else there is to see.

After a one page introduction to the Scapa Map project - which exists to document the wrecks of Scapa Flow by imaging, the book gets down to cases and, chapter by chapter, explains and describes those wrecks which interest divers from all over the world. This is where the book comes into it's own. Each of these chapters commences with a map showing the wrecks under discussion in relation to the remainder. Then we get down to facts, statistics and diving detail interspersed with historic photographs I have never seen before. All are interesting, some are pretty amazing. With only the occasional underwater photograph, each of the major shipwrecks is fully described and incorporates one or more scan images to show exactly what that wreck looks like on the seabed today.

Predominantly, Scapa attracts divers because of the remains of the German High Seas Fleet and whilst these are given full and excellent coverage, the book does not stop there. Next up are chapters headed; Other Wrecks in Scapa Flow, World War II Wrecks, Breaking the Flow Defences (which provides an excellent account of HMS Royal Oak), Orkney Italian Chapel, War Graves (HMS Hampshire and HMS Vanguard), Churchill Barriers (which includes an incredible series of photos of the "Collindoc" from her being mostly underwater to mostly underground!) and finally Scapa Flow Reef Dives - all of which are self explanatory.

With appendices containing contact and other useful information, this single book has it all.

The product itself is well laid out, easy to follow and equally as easy to read. What else could any diver ask for.

NM

This book is excellent if you ever went scuba diving or want to go scuba diving in the future. It is an encyclopedic history of SCUBA and it is full of interesting facts and information. It includes over a quarter century of history.

It comes is beautiful hardcover and has numerous pictures to enjoy! A must see and read for all the ocean, lake, and stream lovers.

I loved Mr. McCallums guide to diving. In fact, he inspired my whole family to take a trip to Hawaii and try diving for ourselves. We love it! Plus, the wonderful seafood recipes in the back of the book are a wonderful treat

THIS BOOK IS A VERY GOOD ONE IT COVER'S EVERY THING CONCERNS SCUBA DIVING BUT UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT DISCUSSED AS IT SHOULD BE.