Dry Suit Diving DVD
Hammerhead Video™ has just released their latest film on DVD, Dry Suit Diving in Depth. Produced by Steve and Kristine Barsky, this 46-minute program is like having your own personal dry suit expert at your side to explain the finer points of dry suit diving.

Filmed in the cool waters off California’s Northern Channel Islands and on the wreck of the Yukon off San Diego, you’ll see clearly how each procedure in dry suit diving is done—from preparing your suit, to skills and to maintenance. Included in the program are the following segments:
• Selecting a dry suit
• Dry suit accessories
• Preparing your suit for diving
• Donning techniques
• Diving skills
• Emergency procedures
• Removal techniques
• Maintenance and simple repairs

The program features suits from Diving Concepts, Diving Unlimited International, O’Neill, Poseidon Systems, and Trelleborg-Viking. It also covers a wide range of accessories.

Like most DVDs, the program includes a scene selection menu, so you can review only the skills you want to watch for a quick refresher. The program goes into much greater detail than most other dry suit videos. The DVD is an NTSC video, but can also be played on most computers equipped with DVD drives.

Dry Suit Diving in Depth is the second DVD produced by Hammerhead Video™ and is a partner to the book, Dry Suit Diving, third edition. Both items can be purchased through any dive store or can be ordered direct on line at Hammerhead Press’ web site at www.hammerheadpress.com. Hammerhead Press® is the sister company to Hammerhead Video™.

For more information, contact Hammerhead Press® at (805) 985-4644.

Basic Decompression Theory and Application (2nd Edition)
The new 2nd Edition of Basic Decompression Theory And Application by Bruce R. Wienke has been extended, updated, with new material added. It takes all rudiments of decompression theory and phase mechanics to considerable depth, while focusing on diving applications in a historical perspective. Topics span many disciplines, and the targeted audience is the commercial diver, hyperbaric scientist, doctor, physical scientist, technical diver, and instructor. Recent developments in diving tables, decompression meters, and decompression management software are presented, and broad model underpinnings are detailed and contrasted. Testing and validation of modern dual phase approaches to staging for decompression, extended range, altitude, and mixed gas diving are a focus of discussion. Deep stops, optimal gas switches, and helium mixes are underscored from diver experience, data, and coarse grain principles. References and numerical examples (with solutions) are included for more detail and extended diver analysis.

The monograph is a ten-part series, touching upon diving aspects of thermodynamics, pressure and density, flow mechanics, gas kinetics, free and dissolved phase transfer, gas counter transport, nucleation and cavitation, bubbles and surfactants, statistics, DCS and oxygen toxicity risk. Computational schemes popularly employed in the technical diving sector are developed. New material and updated information are woven into the fabric of the earlier version. The 1st Edition of this publication was a sellout in the diving community, and the 2nd Edition is much more detailed, comprehensive, and modern in panorama.

Basic Decompression Theory And Application is Best Publishing Book No. B0350, hardcover, 316 pages, and includes tables, charts, bibliography, etc. For more information, visit the publisher’s web site at www.bestpub.com or call 928-527-1055.

Diving Science
The new book Diving Science will help you anticipate, recognize, and respond to the physical, physiological, and psychological stresses encountered in sport diving.

The information in this comprehensive resource will make it easier for you to manage each stage of a dive more safely and successfully. Whether you’re on the surface or bottom, in the descent or ascent, you’ll know exactly what to do and when to do it. Included are detailed explanations on everything from what happens during on-gassing and off-gassing to first response interventions for medical problems.

Written by two experts in diving physiology and medicine, Dr. Michael Strauss and Dr. Igor Aksenov, this book bridges the gap between the basics found in an introductory diving manual and the highly specialized content found in certain diving medicine texts. It includes details on what happens to your body underwater, as well as why and how it happens, insightful definitions, summary tables, clear illustrations, and case reports, making the material meaningful and applicable.

For more information, contact the publisher, Human Kinetics at (800) 747-4457 or visit www.HumanKinetics.com online.