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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Swimming & diving
Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing
on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the
embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and
investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using
marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for
an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary
neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable
swimming, fatness, gender and health. The book argues that the
self-representations of marathon swimming are at odds with its
lived realities, and that this reflects the entrenched and limited
discursive resources available for thinking about the sporting body
in the wider social and cultural context. The book is aimed
primarily at readers at undergraduate level and upwards with an
interest in sociology, the sociology of the body, the sociology of
sport, gender and the sociology of health and illness. -- .
This brief provides a complete yet concise description of modern
dive computers and their operations to date in one source with
coupled applications for added understanding. Basic diving
principles are detailed with practical computer implementations.
Interrelated topics to diving protocols and operational procedures
are included. Tests, statistics and correlations of computer models
with data are underscored. The exposition also links phase
mechanics to dissolved gases in modern decompression theory with
mathematical relationships and equations used in dive computer
synthesis. Applications focus upon and mimic dive computer
operations within model implementations for added understanding.
This comprehensive resource includes a complete list of dive
computers that are marketed and their staging models, as well as a
complete list of diveware marketed and their staging algorithms,
linkage of pertinent wet and dry tests to modern computer
algorithms, a description of two basic computer models with all
constants and parameters, mathematical ansatz of on-the-fly risk
for surfacing at any dive depth, detailing of statistical
techniques used to validate dive computers from data, and a
description of profile Data Banks for computer dive model
correlations. The book will find an audience amongst computer
scientists, doctors, underwater researchers, engineers, physical
and biosciences diving professionals, explorers, chamber
technicians, physiologists and technical and recreational divers.
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