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Diving Micronesia
If you long to see or photograph brilliant soft corals, clownfishes hiding in anemones, spectacular but deadly lionfishes, or outrageously decorated triggerfishes, all in a region culturally diverse and rich in World War II history, then Micronesia is the place to be. The first comprehensive diver’s guide to all the main islands of Micronesia, Diving Micronesia by Eric Hanauer, has just been released by Aqua Quest Publications.

One of the world’s premier diving regions, Micronesia sprawls across some three million square miles of Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the Philippines. Yet with over 2,000 islands, only about 125 are inhabited. Included in Diving Micronesia are Guam, the Northern Marianas, Yap, Palau, Truk, Pohnpei, Kosrae and the Marshall Islands.

Eric Hanauer, associate professor of Physical Education at California State University, Fullerton, has been a diving instructor since 1961. An accomplished freelance writer and photographer, nearly 200 of his articles have appeared in nearly every major American diving periodical, as well as those in Canada, New Zealand and other foreign countries.

For more information, contact Aqua Quest Publications, phone 516-759-0476 or visit their website at http://www.aquaquest.com.

Technical Diving in Depth
Technical Diving in Depth by Bruce R. Wienke is a complete and comprehensive reference work on technical diving. It contains a mixture of technical topics, with each one self-contained and developed in relationship to diving. The topics span many disciplines and focus on a number of technical arenas.

Topics Include: Thermodynamics, pressure and density, mechanics, gas kinetics, free and dissolved phase transfer, energy and matter interactions, nucleation and cavitation, bubbles and surfactants, oxygen dose, gas mixtures, buoyancy, gauges and tanks, compressors and regulators, maladies and drugs, statistics, risk and probability, binomial distributions, waves, transport, currents, geology, oceanography, geophysics, solar energy and radiation. References and Appendix are also included.

The targeted audience for this new book is the technical diver, commercial diver, diving instructor, underwater researcher, doctors, hyperbaric technicians, physiologist, physicist, chemist, mathematician, engineer or biologist.

Technical Diving in Depth is 428 pages, hard cover, and is

published by Best Publishing Company and is their book No. B1035. To order contact Best Publishing Company by calling toll-free in the U.S. and Canada 800-468-1055 or visit their web site at http://www.bestpub.com.