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Underwater
Books & Guides
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NOAA
Diving Manual, Diving for Science & 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 &
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.
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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! |
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Did You
Know?
- Water conducts heat from the diver 25
times better than air, which can lead to hypothermia even in mild water
temperatures. Symptoms of hypothermia include impaired judgment and
dexterity, which can quickly become deadly in an aquatic environment.
In all but the warmest waters, divers need the thermal insulation
provided by wetsuits or drysuits.
- The diver must avoid the formation of
gas bubbles in the body, called decompression sickness or 'the bends',
by releasing the water pressure on the body slowly at the end of the
dive and allowing gases trapped in the bloodstream to gradually break
solution and leave the body, called "off-gassing." This is done by
making safety stops or decompression stops and ascending slowly using
dive computers or decompression tables for guidance.
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