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This handbook is the follow-on to the hugely popular Ultimate Wreck-Diving Guide. Gary Gentile went to the task of updating, expanding, and revising the original because so much has changed in just a few short years. Underwater explorers can now share the benefits of space-age spin-off hardware and developing decompression methodologies. This book, The Technical Diving Handbook is a practical guide for extended range divers. It is a soup-to-nuts volume that discusses every facet of technical diving in detail. Chapters cover the following topics: Introduction, Gear, Underwater Communications, Diver Propulsion Vehicles, Submersible Air Decompression Computers, NITROX, Accelerated Decompression, Mixed-Gas HELIUM, Expedition Diving, Portable Recompression Chambers and Decompression Habitats, Rebreathers, and more. This edition incorporates recent innovations that were unobtainable until only a few years ago, and in some cases were non-existent when the original version of this book went to print.
Included in this book are tips for blending NITROX, HELIAIR, HELIOX, and TRIMIX; instructions on how to build in-water oxygen decompression stations; the procedures and the chemicals needed to clean tanks, valves, and regulators for oxygen service; and a complete chapter on how to plan and execute expedition-style mixed-gas diving operations.
Acquaint yourself now with such new and exciting devices as programmable NITROX wrist decompression computer, the personal computer interface, the hose-less pressure gauge, the heads-up display, the full-face mask which permits regulator switching, decompression software for personal computers, the submersible electric heating pad, and more.
If you are involved in technical diving now, or plan to be, this book is becoming the "bible" that is increasingly recognized as the standard of the sport.
Included in this book are tips for blending NITROX, HELIAIR, HELIOX, and TRIMIX; instructions on how to build in-water oxygen decompression stations; the procedures and the chemicals needed to clean tanks, valves, and regulators for oxygen service; and a complete chapter on how to plan and execute expedition-style mixed-gas diving operations.
Acquaint yourself now with such new and exciting devices as programmable NITROX wrist decompression computer, the personal computer interface, the hose-less pressure gauge, the heads-up display, the full-face mask which permits regulator switching, decompression software for personal computers, the submersible electric heating pad, and more.
If you are involved in technical diving now, or plan to be, this book is becoming the "bible" that is increasingly recognized as the standard of the sport.
Informative, yet low key
By Rhone Man
from British Virgin Islands on 7/21/2008
from British Virgin Islands on 7/21/2008
Pros:
Engaging, Good Value, Informative, Well Written
Cons:
Low Quality
Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Comments about Gary Gentile The Technical Diving Handbook, by Gary Gentile:
I bought this book as a non-technical diver looking to learn more about the Technical diving world. It is a well written book, written in Gary Gentile's characteristic engaging style, conveying a lot of information in a very informal style. Although it is meant as a reference book, it is laced throughout with anecdotes, and I found it a sufficiently engaging read that I almost read it cover to cover the day that I opened it.
Not fabulously well constructed, but still very informative, entertaining and well written. Good value at the price.