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SCUBA Diving and Guides to Diving: Learn How to Dive

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Ultimate Guides to Diving - SCUBA:

This is a comprehensive collection for All Levels - From the beginner through to the advanced Diver!

This Package includes the following Training Manuals in .pdf format on CD:

- U.S. Navy Diving Manual (992 pages)

PLUS

- Open Water Scuba Diver - Student Manual & Workbook
- Diving Manual (520 pages)
- World Underwater Federation Guides: Introduction and a Series of Lessons (349 pages)
- Information on Hyperbaric Medicine

PLUS

- Diving Catalogues of Diving Equipment and Supplies!

U.S. Navy Diving Manual (992 pages)

CONTENTS:

Volume 1 - DIVING PRINCIPLES AND POLICY


Chapter 1 - HISTORY OF DIVING

  • Surface-supplied air diving
  • Scuba diving
  • Mixed-gas diving
  • Submarine salvage and rescue
  • Salvage diving
  • Open-sea deep diving records
  • Summary

Chapter 2 - UNDERWATER PHYSICS

  • Physics
  • Matter
  • Measurement
  • Energy
  • Light energy in diving
  • Mechanical energy in diving
  • Heat energy in diving
  • Pressure in diving
  • Gases in diving
  • Gas laws
  • Gas mixtures

Chapter 3 - UNDERWATER PHYSIOLOGY

  • The nervous system
  • The circulatory system
  • The respiratory system
  • Respiratory problems in diving
  • Breathholding and unconsciousness
  • Hyperventilation
  • Effects of barotrauma and pressure on the human body
  • Pulmonary overinflation syndromes
  • Indirect effects of pressure
  • Physiological hazards from munitions
  • Thermal problems and other physiological problems in diving

Chapter 4 - DIVE SYSTEMS

  • General information
  • Diver's breathing gas purity standards
  • Diver's air sampling program
  • Diving compressors
  • Diving gauges
  • Compressed gas handling and storage

Chapter 5 - DIVE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

  • Objectives of the record keeping and reporting system
  • Record keeping and reporting documents
  • Command smooth diving log
  • Recompression chamber log
  • Diver's personal dive log
  • Diving mishap/casualty reporting
  • Equipment failure or deficiency reporting
  • U.S. navy dive reporting system (drs)
  • Accident/incident equipment investigation requirements
  • Reporting criteria
  • Actions required

APPENDIX

  • Safe diving distances from transmitting sonar
  • References
  • Telephone numbers
  • List of acronyms

Volume 2 - AIR DIVING OPERATIONS


Chapter 6 - OPERATIONAL PLANNING

  • General planning considerations
  • Define mission objective
  • Identify operational tasks
  • Collect and analyze data
  • Identify environmental and operational hazards
  • Select diving technique
  • Select equipment and supplies
  • Select and assemble the diving team
  • OSHA requirements for US Navy civilian diving
  • Organize and schedule operations
  • Brief the diving team
  • Air diving equipment reference data

Chapter 7 - SCUBA AIR DIVING OPERATIONS

  • Required equipment for SCUBA operations
  • Optional equipment for SCUBA operations
  • Air supply
  • Pre-dive procedures
  • Water entry and descent
  • Underwater Procedures
  • Ascent procedures
  • Post-dive procedures

Chapter 8 - SURFACE-SUPPLIED AIR DIVING OPERATIONS

  • MK 21 MOD 1
  • MK 20 MOD 0
  • Portable surface-supplied diving systems
  • Accessory equipment for surface-supplied diving
  • Surface air supply systems
  • Diver communications
  • Pre-dive procedures
  • Water entry and descent
  • Underwater procedures
  • Ascent procedures
  • Surface decompression
  • Post-Dive procedures

Chapter 9 - AIR DECOMPRESSION

  • Theory of decompression
  • Air decompression definitions
  • Dive recording
  • Table selection
  • Ascent procedures
  • Unlimited/no-decompression limits and competitive group designation table for unlimited/no-decompression air dives
  • US Navy standard air decompression table
  • Repetitive dives
  • Surface decompression
  • Exceptional exposure dives
  • Diving at high altitudes
  • Ascent to altitude after diving/flying after diving

Chapter 10 - NITROGEN-OXYGEN DIVING OPERATIONS

  • Equivalent air depth
  • Oxygen toxicity
  • Nitrox diving procedures
  • Nitrox repetitive diving
  • Nitrox dive charting
  • Fleet training for nitrox
  • Nitrox diving equipment
  • Equipment cleanliness
  • Breathing gas purity
  • Nitrox mixing
  • Nitrox mixing, blending, and storage systems

Chapter 11 - ICE AND COLD WATER DIVING OPERATIONS

  • Operations planning
  • Pre-Dive procedures
  • Underwater procedures
  • Operating precautions
  • Emergency procedures
  • Additional references

Volume 3 - MIX-GAS SURFACE-SUPPLIED DIVING OPERATIONS


Chapter 12 - MIXED-GAS DIVING THEORY

  • Boyle's Law
  • Charles'/Gay-Lussac's Law
  • The General Gas Law
  • Dalton's Law
  • Henry's Law

Chapter 13 - MIXED-GAS OPERATIONAL PLANNING

  • Establish operational tasks
  • Select diving method and equipment
  • Selecting and assembling the dive team
  • Briefing the dive team
  • Final preparations and safety precautions
  • Record keeping
  • Mixed-gas diving equipment

Chapter 14 - SURFACE-SUPPLIED MIXED-GAS DIVING PROCEDURES

  • Planning the operation
  • Surface-supplied helium-oxygen descent and ascent procedures
  • Surface-supplied helium-oxygen emergency procedures

Chapter 15 - SATURATION DIVING

  • Applications
  • Basic components of a saturation dive system
  • U.S. Navy saturation facilities
  • Introduction
  • Thermal-protection system
  • Saturation diving underwater breathing apparatus
  • UBA gas usage
  • Introduction
  • Operational considerations
  • Selection of storage depth
  • Records
  • Logistics
  • DDC And PTC atmosphere control
  • Gas supply requirements
  • Environmental control
  • Fire zone considerations
  • Hygiene
  • Atmosphere quality control
  • Compression phase
  • Storage depth
  • Deep diving system (DDS) emergency procedures
  • Saturation decompression
  • Post-dive procedures

Chapter 16 - BREATHING GAS MIXING PROCEDURES

  • Mixing procedures
  • Gas analysis

Volume 4 - CLOSED-CIRCUIT AND SEMI-CLOSED-CIRCUIT DIVING OPERATIONS


Chapter 17 - CLOSED-CIRCUIT MIXED-GAS UBA DIVING

  • Principles of operation
  • USN closed-circuit mixed-gas UBA
  • Operational planning
  • Pre-dive procedures
  • Water entry and descent
  • Underwater procedures
  • Ascent procedures
  • Post-dive procedures
  • Decompression procedures
  • Medical aspects of closed-circuit mixed-gas UBA

Chapter 18 - CLOSED-CIRCUIT OXYGEN UBA DIVING

  • Medical aspects of closed-circuit oxygen diving
  • MK 25 (Draeger LAR V UBA)
  • Closed-circuit oxygen exposure limits
  • Operations planning
  • Pre-dive procedures
  • Water entry and descent
  • Underwater procedures
  • Ascent procedures
  • Post-dive procedures and dive documentation

Volume 5 - DIVING MEDICINE & RECOMPRESSION CHAMBER OPERATIONS


Chapter 19 - DIVING DISORDERS NOT REQUIRING RECOMPRESSION THERAPY

  • Breathing gas disorders
  • Pulmonary over-inflation syndromes
  • Barotraumas
  • Disorders of higher function and consciousness
  • Near drowning
  • Thermal stress
  • Operational hazards
  • Medications and diving

Chapter 20 - DIVING DISORDERS REQUIRING RECOMPRESSION THERAPY

  • Arterial gas embolism
  • Decompression sickness

Chapter 21 - RECOMPRESSION THERAPY

  • Prescribing and modifying treatments
  • Omitted decompression
  • Recompression treatments when no recompression chamber is available
  • Recompression treatments when chamber is available
  • Post-treatment considerations
  • Non-standard treatments
  • Recompression treatment abort procedures
  • Emergency medical equipment

Chapter 22 - RECOMPRESSION CHAMBER OPERATION

  • Description
  • State of readiness
  • Gas supply
  • Operation
  • Chamber maintenance
  • Diver candidate pressure test

APPENDIX

  • Neurological examination
  • First aid
  • Dangerous marine animals

Ultimate Guides to Diving - SCUBA:

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