- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Aquapress; Revised edition (Jan 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0922769311
- ISBN-13: 978-0922769315
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 963,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of several books in this series. The mixed gas chapter is a copy from the Mixed Gas Diving book, so if you are collecting the series beware. Otherwise this is a good read. Slightly dated now the book covers the whole topic of deep scuba in depth, if you excuse the pun. In addition to discussing the record breakers and extreme divers there is practical help for the recreational diver too.
Essential reading for those divers wishing to venture beyond the so-called "safe" 30 meter limit, it should be on every serious diver's bookshelf.
Essential reading for those divers wishing to venture beyond the so-called "safe" 30 meter limit, it should be on every serious diver's bookshelf.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Good introduction to deep diving theory and practices
3 April 1997
Format:Paperback
Deep Diving is one of the first books to openly discuss the "taboo" subject of diving beyond recreational depth limits (>130'). In it Bret Gilliam (founder of Technical Diving International, president of Uwatec USA, former deep-air diving depth record holder) shares wonderful (and gruesome) stories and describes the history and today of the theories and practices of diving deep. This book can help you decide if getting training for deep and technical diving is for you
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Consider it essential reading despite being outdated
2 July 2003
Format:Paperback
Although he has some points, I disagree with the previous reviewer's harsh one-star assessment of this text. The second edition of this text dates to 1995, and as such can't be completely dismissed (other than some details which I will cover below).
I have been diving for 17 years, and even my technical dive training (TDI Extended Range) wasn't as informative to me (the theory part, at least) as this book. Just the historical references, including detailed accounts of fatal deep diving accidents, could make a book on their own, and really instill in the reader the value of training & advances in technical diving equipment systems, and provide a deep appreciation for the very expensive lessons that have been learned over the past half-century of experience.
I found this book to be more detailed in many aspects than many Technical Diving training manuals, and much more interesting to read. Certainly, this book is not a replacement for officially sanctioned manuals, though when I (soon) become a Technical instructor I plan to make my students absorb this text as required "additional reading".
Nevertheless, due to a lack of further updates beyond the first revised edition of 1995, readers should be aware that this book is slightly dated or completely outdated in the following aspects:
- New approaches to using helium mixes at much shallower depths than before, and more attention to breathing mixtures such as hyperoxic and normoxic trimix
- New developments in dive computers, particularly multigas, gas-switching computers such as the Suunto Vytec, the VR3, and Nitek He, the latter two supporting helium mixtures.
- Pre-dive planning of dive Multi-level, multi-gas profiles using PC-based software
- Various general diving and decompression procedures have become more standardized and stricter since this book's publication, particularly issues like gas-supply redundancy.
Despite these and some other less significant issues, this book remains a very important text which I think all technical divers should read, at least as a historical reference. Of course, it would serve both TDI and the diving community greatly if Bret Gilliam & co. would produce a new revision to this book, Which is why I am giving this book "only" four stars.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Highly Recommended
31 July 2000
Format:Paperback
Reaslistic, practical, and easy to understand. Hazards and rewards of deep diving are both well defined. Safety well covered and emphasized. Good resource for either tekkies or those who will dive within recreational limits.
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