Book Synopsis: Ten Commandments for Safe Diving 1. Basic Requirements for Skin and Scuba Diving
Swimming Ability and Watermanship... Physical Status... Medical History and Examination Form 2. Physics as Related to Diving
Gas, Pressure, and the Gas Laws... Dalton's Law and Gas Mixtures... Temperature... Density, Buoyancy, and Viscosity... Humidity... Illumination and Vison... Acoustics 3. Medical Aspects of Diving: Underwater Physiology
Direct Effects of Pressure... Something to Breathe... Nothing to Breathe... Indirect Effects of Pressure 4. Fundamentals of Compressed Gases as Related to Diving
Compressed Air Tanks... Care and Handling of High-Pressure Tanks... Compressed Air... Cascade System for Recharging Samll Breathing Air Cylinders 5. Basic Skin and Scuba Equipment
Skin Diving Equipment... Protective Clothing... Diving Tools and Instruments... Open-Circuit Scuba... Choosing Scuba... Repair Procedures... Compressed Air Cylinders... Closed-Circuit Scuba... Semiclosed-Circuit Scuba 6. Skills of Skin and Scuba Diving
Basic Sking Diving... Use of Open-Circuit Scuba Types... Scuba Orientations... Methods of Entry and Exit... Buddy Breathing... Dark-Water Diving... Rescue Skills... Search Patterns 7. First Aid for Diving Accidents
Prevention... General First Aid.... Visibility... Safety Summary... Marine Life 8. Environment and Marine Life
Weather... Waves... Currents... Visibility... Safe Summary... Marine Life 9. Planning a Scuba Dive
The Individual... The Buddy System... Underwater Communications System... Emergency Assistance Plan
Appendixes:
A. United States Nacy Air Decompression Tables B. Decompresson/Repetitive Dive Tables C. Air Purity Requirements for Underwater Breathing D. American National Standard Minimum Course Content for Safe Diving Instruction E. Underwater Accident Report
Glossary of Skin and Scuba Diving Terms
Index
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