Spencer Slate - National Chairman, YMCA Scuba Program
"An essential text for the scuba classroom."
Wayne P. Quarberg - Training Director - Multinational Diving Educators Association
"Superbly written. An excellent entry-level text that will also be of great use to the experienced and advanced diver."
Tom Hemphill - President of Emerald Seas International, Ltd. - Member, NAUI Board of Directors
"...covers all phases of recreational diving beyond the basics. It is an ideal text for beginning as well as advanced divers."
Product Description
This guide covers essential diving skills, using diving equipment in both warm and cold water, and avoiding the risks and hazards associated with diving. It also looks at advances in diving medicine, diving equipment and dive-planning devices.
About the Author
With over a quarter-century of experience as a scuba instructor and instructor trainer, Dennis Graver has authored 27 books and manuals on the subject of scuba diving. In his position as director of training for the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), he designed the PADI modular scuba course and wrote the PADI Dive Manual, which revolutionized scuba instruction. During his tenure as director of education for the National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI), Graver wrote the NAUI Openwater I Scuba Diver Course Instructor Guide. He has also contributed hundreds of articles on diving in such magazines as Skin Diver, Sources, and Undercurrents, as well as several NAUI technical publications.
From the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt to the barrier reefs of Australia, Graver also has spent the past 30 years photographing the wonders under the water. He has won numerous awards from the Underwater Photographic Society, and his photos have graced the covers of many magazines and illustrated several diving texts and audiovisual education programs.
In addition Graver has greatly influenced scuba diving with his development of a dive table multilevel diving technique for recreational diving and a breathing mask technique for diving rescue. He also has designed the NAUI Dive Time Calculator and the first PADI dive tables.
Graver is currently a member of NAUI, the Handicapped Scuba Association, the Undersea Hyperbaric and Medical Society, the Diver’s Alert Network, the Underwater Photographic Society, and the Underwater Society of America.
