Download or read book The Florida Keys Dive Guide written by and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbeville launches a new series of scuba diving guides more complete than any other guides on the market.Full-color, three-dimensional maps of each dive site offer what no book has ever before provided: the information needed to plan your dive down to the last detail. You can review the exact layout of the site-including depths, sizes, and distances between reefs and wrecks or any hazards -- and even the lighting conditions for optimum underwater photography. The short chapters covering the 28 dives in each book provide crucial data about depth, currents, weather variables, and plant and animal life, and each book ends with a full-color visual encyclopedia of the most common fish that inhabit the area.The lively text by dive experts has been vetted by Diving Science and Technology Corporation (DSAT), which is a corporate affiliate of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), making these the most reliable guides for the expert as well as the first-time diver.Watch for future titles on the Red Sea and the Great Barrier Reef.
Download or read book Diving Bali written by David Pickell and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well–travelled divers all acknowledge that the best diving in the world is found in the warm waters of tropical Bali. Bali is located in the famous "coral triangle," the center of the world's tropical marine diversity, and the island is blessed with a stunning variety of dive sites—shipwrecks, quiet black sand bays, crystalline hard coral reefs over bright white sand, lava ridges draped in gorgonians and soft coral, and current–swept pinnacles, swirling with fish. Diving Bali is a comprehensive diving guide covering all of Bali and it's surrounding reefs. It presents in great detail some of the best dive sites in the tropical western Pacific. Our seasoned diver–authors have an aggregate half–century of experience exploring these waters, and each site receives thorough coverage, including detailed maps, color photos, and a full description of access, conditions, and facilities. This Bali diving guide features: Practicalities: Detailed travel information for every budget, including accommodations, transportation, prices, seasons, and dive operators. Information: Local history, diving lore, site conditions, and more than 50 maps. Photography: More than 100 color photographs by top photographers.
Download or read book The Complete Scuba Diving Guide written by Dave Saunders and published by A & C Black. This book was released on 1987 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Diver s Guide to Southern California s Best Beach Dives written by Dale Sheckler and published by . This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dive the Bahamas written by Lawson Wood and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2007-09-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, growing numbers of divers and snorkelers venture in search of turquoise seas, fabulous coral walls, and mythically beautiful marine life. This stunning, full-color handbook covers more than 180 dive and snorkel sites across the country, from Bimini to Little Inagua. Maps.
Download or read book First Dive to Shark Dive written by Peter Lourie and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how twelve-year-old Suzanna learned how to scuba dive and with her father, Peter swam with the sharks of Andros.
Download or read book Scuba Confidential written by Simon Pridmore and published by Sandsmedia via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scuba Confidential is a unique book packed full of valuable tips and expert advice, giving you unprecedented access to the secrets of dive professionals and technical divers. With Scuba Confidential, you will learn how to master skills and techniques that will make you a more confident, capable and safe diver. It offers an informed, balanced view on some of scuba diving's most contentious issues like going solo, deep diving and rebreathers and includes a comprehensive analysis of how diving accidents happen and how to make sure you do not become a statistic. Scuba Confidential also gives you valuable insights on a vast range of topics such as what it is like to do a cave diving course, how to make sure you buy the right equipment, what to consider when choosing an instructor, things even the pros get wrong and where to find the best diving in the world. This is candid, no-nonsense practical advice from a professional who has been involved over the last three decades with virtually every aspect of the sport. Have you ever wondered? How to look as comfortable in the water as the professionals do? What it is like to dive inside shipwrecks? Which training courses are most worthwhile? If you would make a good technical diver? If you should be considering a rebreather? How you can improve your diving skills? How you can reduce your air consumption? Why diving accidents happen and how to prevent them? Whether you might sometimes actually be safer solo diving? How to dive deep safely? Or How muck diving can possibly be any fun? Scuba Confidential has the answers to these questions and many more.
Download or read book Sidemount Diving The Almost Comprehensive Guide written by Rob Neto and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Lakes Diving Guide written by Cris Kohl and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What lies beneath the fresh, cold waters of the Great Lakes? The best preserved shipwrecks in the world! Learn about more than 1,000 shipwrecks: their histories, their sinkings, and their locations.
Download or read book Diving Science written by Michael B. Strauss and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text blends theoretical and scientific aspects with practical and directly applicable diving physiology and medical information. It is divided into three sections - the underwater environment, physiological responses to the underwater environment, and medical problems associated with the sport.
Download or read book Advanced Wreck Diving Guide written by Gary Gentile and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for the diver with considerable scuba experience, a sense of adventure, and a yen to explore shipwreck sites, this work is amply illustrated and covers all the important aspects of the popular sport: approach, techniques, safety, wreck penetration, and decompression methods, as well as the details of artifact recovery and restoration. In addition, the author includes invaluable tips on underwater photography. Gary Gentile, a professional photographer and experienced shipwreck diver, has enlivened his text with anecdotes that may make even timid sports enthusiasts want to don diving gear.
Download or read book Complete Wreck Diving written by Henry Keatts and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide is for both beginning and advanced divers. It tells how to find wrecks, details the equipment and techniques needed, explains safety concerns, and teaches how to recover artifacts and preserve them.
Download or read book The Scuba Diving Handbook written by Paul McCallum and published by Betterway Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to scuba diving in both fresh and salt water with information for divers at all levels.
Download or read book Diving the World written by Beth Tierney and published by Footprint - Activity Guides. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Footprint's Diving the World is essential reading for anyone interested in diving. With over 200 prime sites and color images throughout, this book offers the ultimate inspiration as well as all the practical information you need to plan your next dive. Whether you're looking for the most biodiverse dive spot, or one that's the best value for money, Diving the World 3rd edition will help you get the most out of your trip both underwater and on dry land.
Download or read book Women Underwater written by Jill Heinerth and published by . This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Underwater - The Comprehensive Guide to Women in Scuba Diving, aims to reach out to women with specific information about their place in diving. With detailed guidance on equipment, medical issues and social factors, this book reaches women with inspiring stories from mentors who have forged a career in unique underwater fields. Authors Jill Heinerth and Renee Power tackle topics for both recreational and technical divers while featuring their vast experience in instruction, consulting and working in field predominantly governed by men. At times humorous yet also deadly serious, the book answers delicate questions about hygiene, equipment fit and dealing with sexism. Printed in full color and generously illustrated, Women Underwater will be published alongside a website and blog that keeps readers up to date on opportunities, new equipment and activities for women divers.
Download or read book The Business of Diving written by Riad Yakzan and published by . This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Certified Diver s Handbook written by Clay Coleman and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
