Recreational
Nitrox Diving
Nitrox has gained wide acceptance in the recreational diving community over the past few decades. While it is widely used by the military, as well as technical, commercial and scientific divers, the techniques, procedures, and tables have been refined to the point that with a modicum of training, nitrox diving can be safe and enjoyable for the recreational open-circuit scuba diver.
There is much to be considered and a lot to be weighed before changing to nitrox. It's critical to understand the potential risks and benefits. Should you choose to dive nitrox, professional training is an absolute necessity.
Recreational Nitrox Diving by Robert Rossier provides in-depth discussions of physics, physiology, oxygen toxicity, and oxygen limits. It also reviews latest safeguards and procedures, equipment considerations, and guides the reader through easy-to-follow nitrox dive planning examples. Included are nitrox planning tables plus the latest NOAA oxygen limits.
Contents include: Why Nitrox?, The Physiology of Nitrox Diving, Nitrox Dive Planning, Equipment Requirements, Procedures and Safeguards. How Nitrox is Made, Safe Diving Considerations.
Recreational Nitrox Diving is available from your local dive store or directly from Best Publishing Company, phone 800-468-1055 or e-mail divebooks@bestpub.com or visit the Best Publishing exhibit booth at SCUBA Show 2000, June 3-4 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
Discovery
Travel Adventure Series:Scuba Diving is the first of five new titles for spring that are part of the Discovery Travel Adventures series, which has been created by Insight Guides, whose titles have set the standard for visual travel guides, and Discovery Communications. The idea behind the series is to satisfy the needs of a growing number of U.S. travelers who prefer to "explore a passion, not just a place." This new breed of travel guide meets the demands of this growing trend in travel.
In Scuba Diving, that translates to providing inspiration and information to those who have yet to take their first plunge, as well as to experienced divers, with evocative essays by renowned authors and experts, and world class photography. Scuba Diving tells prospective divers how to obtain a "C-card" (diver-speak for certification) and find the right instructor. Then, the book takes divers to the next level, with background on night diving, drift diving, and exploring wrecks, caverns, and caves. The reader learns about quality equipment - including regulators, tanks, exposure suits, dive computers, and more. Scuba Diving shows readers not only how to choose a destination, but how to be a more environmentally responsible diver once you get there.
Scuba Diving zeroes in on a number of choice destinations to stage the best warm and cold-water diving trips in North America and the Caribbean. Each destination profile provides divers with information about the locale and its marine life, and includes specially commissioned maps, tips that offer carefully selected lodging and dive operator information, and recommendations for nearby excursions. Throughout Scuba Diving, the reader will find valuable sidebars that discuss topics like underwater photography and diving with sharks, travel tips, and more than 250 full-color photographs that bring the beauty and drama of the underwater world into stunning focus.
Scuba Diving is available at bookstores, travel stores, and selected outlets where maps and travel products are sold. For further information on where to purchase Scuba Diving, contact Langenscheidt Publishing Group, 46-35 54th Road, Maspeth, NY 11378, or call (718) 784-0055.
Recreational
Nitrox Gas Blending
As more divers understand the benefits of using Nitrox, the need for a ready supply of the gas mix increases. This is good news for diving facilities that can supply this demand. It follows that Nitrox divers are people who invest in themselves, their training, equipment, and dive travel.
With so many divers using Nitrox, why is it so hard to find? Is mixing Nitrox really that difficult? Find out all the answers in the new Recreational Nitrox Gas Blending Manual by Bart Bjorkman. This book was written with three objectives: To direct you in the safe methods of blending Enriched Air Nitrox; to inform you about the types of blending systems currently available; to provide you with the correct information, so that you can choose what system would provide the best return on your situation.
With this book you will learn about "oxygen service," when "oxygen clean" is necessary, the five simple tests to prove oxygen clean, and the five methods of obtaining Nitrox.
This book is the current text for PADI Nitrox gas blenders worldwide.
This book is available through Best Publishing Company -Tele. 800.468.1055 or 520.527.1055. (Book No.B1009) or visit the Best Publishing exhibit booth at SCUBA Show 2000, June 3-4 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
