Scuba and Snorkelings
Scuba diving is one of the world's fastest
growing sports, and as a result there is an ever increasing demand for
authoritative, practical information about this challenging activity. The
Diver's Handbook meets this need and covers everything from what equipment to
buy and which training courses to attend to basic health and safety measures.
With comprehensive and up-to-date text, this book is certain to become an
invaluable addition to any diver's bookshelf. 300 color photos.
Diving in Depth
A long-awaited and much-needed title has just been
released by BPC. "Technical Diving in Depth" by Bruce R. Wienke is the
most complete and comprehensive reference work published to date on technical
It contains a mixture of technical topics, with
each one self-contained and developed in relationship to diving. The topics span
many disciplines and focus on a number of technical arenas.
Thermodynamics, pressure and density, mechanics, gas kinetics, free and
dissolved phase transfer, energy and matter interactions, nucleation and
cavitation, bubbles and surfactants, oxygen dose, gas mixtures, buoyancy, gauges
and tanks, compressors and regulators, maladies and drugs, statistics, risk and
probability, binomial distributions, waves, transport, currents, geology,
oceanography, geophysics, solar energy and radiation. References and Appendix
are also included.