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by Dennis K. Graver (Author) "When you descend beneath the surface of the water, you enter an entirely new and beautiful world ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 202 pages
  • Publisher: Human Kinetics Europe Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (30 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0736001727
  • ISBN-13: 978-0736001724
  • Product Dimensions: 28 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,202,847 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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."
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent preparation for the PADI open water certification, 17 Jun 1999
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I bought this book to prepare for the PADI open water certification. I found it to be a very well organized book that did an excellent job of explaining everything from the concepts of boyancy, diving physiology, to the dive tables. It will serve as a great resource the next time I plan to dive. The opening chapter discusses the the sensitivities of the underwater world and the importance of respecting this environment. I really appreciated this chapter after my first dive where I witnessed a group of reckless divers whom were basically out of control in the coral reef. I highly recommend this book to any beginning diver that wants to prepare for open water diver certification.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good technical reference about scuba diving, 26 Nov 2002
By Matthieu Terrier (HARLOW United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
About a month before I started studying the PADI Open Water manual (that you receive by post if you choose the fasttrack course), I bought a few books to get myself familiar with the concepts behind scuba diving.

First I chose "The Divers Handbook" from Alan Mountain, because it includes 50 pages dealing with coral, fish, and dangerous underwater creatures. Then I felt the need for something more technical and went for Dennis Graver's "Scuba Diving".

The book has a lot of background information illustrated with simple diagrams: the "Diving Science" section goes into the details of Guy-Lussac's law, Henry's law, partial pressures, and air consumption formulas.The "Dive Planning" section, while it uses USN tables (United States Navy) and not the RDP tables of the PADI course, includes dive planning problems and solutions and explains how to compute a letter group after repetitive dives.

You also find some interesting information about the physics behind waves, surf and currents in the "Diving Environment" section.

A very usefull book that allows you to go a little deeper into scuba diving theory than the PADI course does.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A good basic guide book, 3 Jul 2002
By D. Martin "tavita_martin" (London) - See all my reviews
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Since I didn't buy the thicker PADI Open Water guidebook during my course I grabbed this instead. It is a good solid book with some interesting emphasis on topics that are covered in less detail in the generic course book.

The only negative point I found was the manual isn't as comprehensive as the thicker course book we used and didn't provide me with some of the check-lists and other "important-to-remember" aspects I wanted to memorise before I got back into the water.

That said, if you want a book that will broaden your knowledge a bit or to use in conjunction with another course book then I think you will be more than happy with what this has to offer.

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