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Spearfishing: How to Get Started - This book is a MUST for anyone who is curious about the sport of spearfishing. It covers all of the basics by discussing safety considerations, costs, equipment, techniques and skills that are necessary to get started. It is designed specifically for the beginner and is packed full of knowledge that has been acquired through years of practice. You should not attempt this activity until you read this book. Learn from the experience of others so that your journey into spearfishing can be safe, rewarding and exciting.
The Essential Diver's Log Book is a good value book-format easy-to-use scuba diving log book. It contains boxes for all the essential details a sport diver might like to record after a dive in a clean simple layout. There is room for 50 dives - each with a two page spread. At the front you can record personal details and at the back there's lined paper for notes. Each individual log has boxes for key details - depth, time, cylinder size, gas in/out etc. There's also space for notes on equipment used, conditions and any issues encountered. You'll find graph paper for drawing dive profiles or scale drawings. There's also plenty of space for sketching or writing about the things seen on the dive. Two pages per dive. Space for 50 dives. Log depths, times, buddies, gases, consumption etc - Small, lightweight, ideal for the travelling recreational diver this is the paperback Essential Diver's Log Book.
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. Scuba Confidential answers a whole host of questions. For example, have you ever wondered........... How the professionals look so comfortable in the water? What it is like to dive under ice and inside shipwrecks? Which training courses are worthwhile and which might just be a waste of time? If you would make a good technical diver? If you should be considering a rebreather? How you can reduce your air consumption? Whether you might actually be safer without a buddy sometimes? Or How muck diving can possibly be any fun? Scuba Confidential has the answers to all these and many more.
This book - is a sequel to "Dive Navigator" series (English edition). Here you can find the most interesting and popular dive sites south of Safaga to the southern border of Egypt, include St. Johns reef system and Marine Parks Brothers, Dedalus, Rocky and Zabargad. In the other books in this series are the best reefs and wrecks for diving available along the west coast of the Egypt - from Sinai Peninsula to the border with Sudan. Each book in the series is named by the closest town on the coastline.
This book - is a continuation of the "Dive Navigator" Atlas. Here you can find the most interesting and popular dive sites around the El Gouna city, Red Sea Governorate of Egypt. In the other books in this series are the best reefs and wrecks for diving available along the west coast of the Egypt - from Sinai Peninsula to the border with Sudan. Each book in the series is named by the closest town on the coastline. The main purpose of our books is to help sorting out which of the dive sites are more suitable for you. Having found this out you will be able to design your own program to get acquainted with the underwater world of the Red Sea.
Atlas "Hurghada&Safaga" include all the most popular reefs and wrecks along the western coast of Egypt to the south from the edge of El Gouna diving area the end of Safaga diving-area. Each of the sites in this atlas has a picture of its relief with the necessary information: a compass for orientation to the cardinal, arrows showing the direction of prevailing currents, anchors, marking the places of moorings and also depth marks. The rest of the information such as diving routes, landmarks, points of interest and encountered livestock - is located in the narrative part. There are also GPS-positions of the moorings, a small sketch of locations, as well as availability, complexity, types of diving and the recommended level of training.
The Solid Diver's Log Book is the weather-resistant hardback diving log book for recording dives and related information. It has capacity for 70 dives with two pages per dive. All the elements you would expect are included. There is space for gas mix, buddy, boat, port, decompression stops, depth and time. Other sections allow recording of equipment used (and whether it is open or closed circuit), conditions and milestones. There is a decent rectangle of graph paper for dive profiles or scale drawings. The space for recording observations is part lined and part plain (for text, sketches or stamps). At the front there is space for personal details (including qualifications) and at the back there are lined pages for general notes. Two page spreads for 70 dives. Log depths, times, buddies, gases, consumption etc. Glossy weather-resistant hard cover. Perfect for the recreational diver who wants an (almost) indestructible record, this is the larger-format hardback Solid Diver's Log Book.
A book of three parts; Freediving manual, sustainable marine
foraging guide and introduction to sustainable and ethical
spearfishing. In this full colour, large format (8.5"x11") publication by
master freediving instructor and expert marine forager Ian Donald,
you will be taught in a step-by-step manner how to freedive, forage
for marine foods and spearfish, all with sustainability in
mind. DISCOVER the vast array of sustainable foods available from
above and below the water and acquire the skills to collect them.
Full colour photographs of seaweeds and other edible sea-shore
plants, molluscs and crustaceans. LEARN the art of freediving, working through the skills in a
logical manner, so you too can be a freediver, including:
Equipment, breathing, relaxation, equalisation (basic and
advanced), posture, movement, safety and many other skills. UNDERSTAND how to fish in the most sustainable way, with this
introduction to spearfishing. Starting with the basics, including
how to rig a gun, what gun to buy, how to shoot, where to hunt, and
how to stay safe. Full colour photographs of sustainable fish with
hunting instructions for each one. UNCOVER the truth behind our impact on the seas, and how by
becoming an underwater forager, you can start to make a difference.
Learn about freediving and foraging cultures of the past and
present and how their part in underwater foraging history has
influenced us. Written in plain English and avoiding confusing technical jargon
wherever possible, let this book become your guide to the beautiful
underwater realm of the breath-hold diver and forager.
Whether you have been diving for years or just thinking about sticking your fins in the water for the first time, The First 130 Feet: True Stories from the Dive Deck will take you on underwater adventures you won't ever forget. Journey with author Ken Barrick as he explores hidden underwater worlds, from the Inner Harbor of Baltimore to Australia's Coral Sea. This collection of short stories entertains, educates, and inspires. Experience the terror of being face-to-face with a fourteen-foot hammerhead shark in "Getting Hammered" or the exhilaration of swimming with a pack of wild dolphins in "The Company of Dolphins." In "Lost at Sea," you'll discover the helpless feeling of watching your boat drift away toward the horizon-without you aboard, and in "Did You Know?" you'll be amazed by "walking" sharks. Each story in The First 130 Feet is a unique and delightful journey into a fascinating underwater world. Prepare to dive in
The UNDERWATER WORLD books are predominately designed as fish identification books. However, they are a source of wonder to anyone interested in what lies beneath the water. Whether you are a diver wanting to take notes on the various wierd and wonderful wildlife Sydney has to offer or a curious landlubber looking through the pages in awe and amazment at the different and often alien looking animals that share our world. Your Guide To The UNDERWATER WORLD is an accompaniment to a divers log book or a souvenir of a place visited or soon to visit.
This is a scuba hand book that contains a comprehensive list of dive sites in all fifty states, plus selected sites in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Information on these sites were collected on site, by intervies with dive shop owners, dive instructors, local avid divers, and from information collected from various websites. The point of this book is to inform you of dive activities and dive sites around The United States and abroad. You may not have heard of some of the dive sites, but once you read this book, you'll most likely have to go visit many of these sites to see, feel, and experience the local diving for yourself. Some of the States have just a handful of dive sites availbe to check out for yourself, while other states have thousands of dive sites. I couldn't name them all in one book, but this book will definitely get you started diving in the right direction.
Whatever happens on your dives they won't be as colourful as the Ultimate Diver's Log Book. With 200 high-quality colour pages at a low price this log book is like no other. There are two pages for each dive so there is plenty of room - no more cramped information. The Ultimate Diver's Log Book can help speed up logging a dive or ensure you keep every detail you might find useful in future. It has pre-filled units (both metric and imperial). There's a section to record any kit configuration you want to remember. It can accommodate multiple gas mixes (for the techier ones among us). A guided calculation will also help you work out your breathing rate. The graph paper can be used to draw dive profiles or scale drawings. There's a large plain area for comments, sketches and stamps. And if anything goes wrong, there's even a section for that too. The Visibility Scale is a range of colours - circle or tick the one closest to the water colour on the dive. Then compare this with the depth and visibility on other dives. There are also pages at the front for personal details and some lined note pages at the back for general use. Easy-use colour-coded pages.Space for 100 dives with two pages per dive. Log depth, time, buddies, gases and consumption. Plus kit, issues, conditions - Innovative Visibility Scale. The ultimate recreational diver's log book is the ideal gift for any serious diver.
Created by a Divemaster this Dive Log is simple to use with graphical locations for all the important information that divers want to keep track of. Included is a graphical weighting chart designed to help divers get their weighting perfect for every dive configuration. Additionally there are custom designed pages used to track multiple day repetitive dives.
Reprint of the original 1940 edition. "The story you are about to read is a recital of my work for thirty-five years as a diver, on many types of assignments and in many kinds of circumstances and conditions. You will learn what I did; why, how, and for whom I did it. You will lean about others, associated with me in this fascinating profession, and some of their experiences. In giving you this account, in this way, I sincerely hope that I shall have painted a picture which will not only prove entertaining and instructive in itself, but will serve to offset the all too many inaccuracies and false impressions created by some whose experience is insufficient, or whose imaginations exceed their knowledge of the subject."- Preface to 1940 edition.
Chris and Chrissy Rouse, an experienced father-and-son scuba diving team, hoped to achieve widespread recognition for their outstanding but controversial diving skills. Obsessed and ambitious, they sought to solve the secrets of a mysterious, undocumented World War II German U-boat that lay under 230 feet of water, only a half-day's mission from New York Harbor. In doing so, they paid the ultimate price in their quest for fame. Bernie Chowdhury, himself an expert diver and a close friend of the Rouses', explores the thrill-seeking world of deep-sea diving, including its legendary figures, most celebrated triumphs, and gruesome tragedies. By examining the diver's psychology through the complex father-and-son dynamic, Chowdhury illuminates the extreme sport diver's push toward -- and sometimes beyond -- the limits of human endurance.
This book is not exactly a textbook or a manual giving divers D-I-Y advice on the specifics of technical diving, but it is essential reading for anyone wanting to venture beyond weekend-warrior status. While the six skills include some hard and fast physical guidelines, this book's focus is on the things other diving texts leave out. Perfect reading material for any level of scuba diver: even those "not interested" in going tech.
If you're a beginning snorkeler, The Ultimate Snorkeling Book will allay your fears, insure your safety, and help you snorkel like an expert. If you're already an expert, you'll learn practical new tips and gear upgrades that you will use as soon as you push off into the water. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book explains each piece of snorkeling gear and what to buy at every price range. You'll learn how to upgrade and maintain your equipment so it performs like expensive professional gear. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book focuses on safety. It explains how to protect against storms, lightening, currents, burning sun, fatigue, exposure, leaky masks, tiny jellyfish, and big scary fish. You'll learn how to care for children in the water so that everybody has a fun trip. The Ultimate Snorkeling Book is like a personal mentorship with an experienced snorkeler and zoologist who will help you identify reef creatures, understand their appearance and behavior, and learn to protect our fragile shoreline ecosystem. Pre-trip checklists make sure you arrive with everything you need. This book will help insure that your snorkeling trip will be a success. YOU can have a great time snorkeling Let's start right now |
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