Scuba Diving: The Essential Guide to Equipment and Techniques (Adventure Sports) - Softcover

Jackson, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859743978 ISBN 13: 9781859743973

Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

A scuba-diving handbook. It features text and step-by-step photographs and illustrations, leading the novice scuba diver from the earliest stages of underwater training through to diving in open water. Adopting a general approach - mindful of the differences between the various certifying agencies, but not tied to any particular course outline - the author focuses on the training requirements for a basic open-water certificate. The scientific laws and physiology of diving are covered, as are essential survival and safety techniques. Other chapters cover the use and maintenance of equipment, mobility and buoyancy underwater, dive planning and diving in different types of water.

About this title

About the Author

Jack Jackson is highly respected in international diving circles. An advanced diver, he has spent over three decades exploring below the surface of the world's oceans. Principal consultant on the award-winning Top Dive Sites of the World, he is also author of The Dive Sites of the Philippines and The Dive Sites of Malaysia and Singapore (all published by New Holland). He lives in Woking, Surrey.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Holland Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859743978
• ISBN 13: 9781859743973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96