Embark on an underwater adventure with "First Time Diver," your essential guide to the world of scuba diving. This comprehensive book covers everything from choosing the right equipment and understanding diving principles to achieving your certification and respecting marine life. Designed for beginners, it simplifies complex concepts, prepares you for your first dive, and inspires a lifelong passion for the ocean. Dive in and discover the beauty of the depths with confidence and knowledge!
What lies beneath the fresh, cold waters of the Great Lakes? The best preserved shipwrecks in the world! Learn about more than 1,000 shipwrecks: their histories, their sinkings, and their locations.
Explore 100 breathtaking scuba diving sites around the world--from the cenotes of Mexico to the best wreck in Micronesia--through stunning National Geographic photography, expert tips, and cutting-edge travel advice. Filled with more than 350 images from National Geographic, 100 Dives of a Lifetime provides the ultimate bucket list for ardent scuba divers and aspirational travelers alike. From diving with manta rays at night in Kona, Hawaii, and swimming with hammerheads of Cocos Island in Costa Rica to exploring caves in Belize's Lighthouse Atoll and diving beneath the ice floes of Antarctica, this exquisite inspirational book is filled with beautiful imagery, marine life guides, trusted travel tips, and expert diving advice from world-famous National Geographic divers and explorers like Brian Skerry, Jessica Cramp, and David Doubilet. Organized by diving experience and certification level--from beginner open water and wreck dives to expert cold water and cave dives--each location offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the magic of our world's oceans--from your armchair or with your scuba gear in tow.
Learn how to cope, overcome hard times, and not only survive, but thrive. Learn how to take charge of your life and transform the way you view yourself, your relationships, and your experiences with this unique reference. Each chapter discusses a specific issue that many people struggle with such as defining one’s own happiness, dealing with rejection, and setting limits in relationships. With practical tips and a step-by-step approach to help find what makes you happy, you will learn to stop selling yourself short and how to rise above anything that life throws at you. Everyone has their own share of struggles, but with the right tools and attitude, it is possible to overcome and flourish.
If you're considering learning to scuba dive, then Scuba Diving: everything you need to know before taking a course, is the book for you. This book cuts through all the jargon and clears away the confusing information that you find when searching for scuba diving courses online. It gets straight to the point.It assumes no prior knowledge of diving and covers everything you need to consider before taking the first level of diver training- an open water course. It's easy to read and the information will be invaluable in helping you to choose the right kind of scuba training for your needs.You will learn how the major scuba diving training agencies like PADI and SSI run a course, how their open water courses differ, and how this will impact you. You will also understand the pros and cons of training part-time or full-time, and be armed with the right information to be able to choose a reputable dive center.This guide will be a handy reference when talking to prospective dive centers and particularly useful if you are thinking of learning to dive when traveling around Asia, specifically in places like Thailand or Indonesia.Information is provided on:- Reasons for learning scuba diving- Description of what scuba diving is- Requirements to be able to learn to dive- An overall view of the risks of scuba diving- What scuba qualifications are available to beginners- What a try dive is- What an open water course allows you to do- What a scuba diver certification allows you to do- Diving certifications for children- Costs of training- Medical requirements- What to do if you have anxiety- Duration of courses- Considerations for training part-time or full-time- The pros and cons of each method- Who gives you your diving certification- An outline of the differences between dive training providers- The reality of the differences between training providers- A breakdown of what's taught during a course- Choosing a scuba instructor- Questions to ask prospective instructors- Advice on choosing a dive center- A breakdown of scuba equipment- The limits of your diving certification- What to do if you don't dive for a long time- How to improve your diving after certification- What further scuba training is available- Considerations for cold water diving- Other types of diving- Useful linksFor more information on this, and other scuba diving books by Richard, visit his website at https://richarddevanney.comRichard Devanney is a full-time dive instructor currently based in Bali, Indonesia. He previously managed dive centers in Iceland, Thailand, and Micronesia, and is qualified to teach divers with 6 dive training agencies. He also teaches technical diving through 4 technical diving agencies.When not teaching, he enjoys rebreather diving, cave diving, and wreck diving. He writes articles for a dive training agency (Technical Diving International), and previously wrote articles for an online scuba diving magazine- Scuba Diver Life.You can read his articles here:https://www.tdisdi.com/authors/richard-devanney/https://scubadiverlife.com/author/richardd/He also owns and manages a website that provides information for technical divers:https://bluepo2diving.com/
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. Have you ever wondered? How to look as comfortable in the water as the professionals do? What it is like to dive inside shipwrecks? Which training courses are most worthwhile? If you would make a good technical diver? If you should be considering a rebreather? How you can improve your diving skills? How you can reduce your air consumption? Why diving accidents happen and how to prevent them? Whether you might sometimes actually be safer solo diving? How to dive deep safely? Or How muck diving can possibly be any fun? Scuba Confidential has the answers to these questions and many more.
"Neutral Buoyancy is a journey filled with exotic, eccentric human characters competing for space with misunderstood sharks, weeping turtles, smiling dolphins and erotically shaped sea slugs. This unique and inspiring insight into our relationship with the deep will allow even the most timid swimmer to lose themselves underwater."--Jacket.
The beautiful locales, exotic plant and sea life, and relaxing environs of dive locations are even more peaceful when you are armed with the expertise and skill to stay safe in any situation. With self-rescues, buddy rescues, open-water resuscitation, and towing techniques, Scuba Diving Safety will become your most valuable diving companion. Covering a full range of underwater environments, as well as dangerous marine life, entanglements, and equipment failures, this vital resource is an essential reference for every underwater enthusiast. Do not rely on someone else--or chance--to keep you safe. Let Scuba Diving Safety help you prepare for the unexpected and provide the confidence to enjoy your underwater adventures to the fullest.
