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Category : Deep diving
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Journal of Diving History
Author: The International Journal of Diving History. Vol. 1
Author: Historical Diver
Author: Historical Diving Times
Author: Diving Pioneers
Author: Eric HanauerPublisher: Aqua Quest Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780922769438
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is the saga of diving in America, told by the men and women who lived it and made it. These stories and more recall scuba's pioneer days of the 40s and 50s where every dive was an adventure.
Diving Pioneers and Innovators
Author: Bret GilliamPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Manages to combine humour, adventure, tragedy, triumph, heroism, and even some forays into the risque while chronicling the careers of 20 personalities that helped make diving. This book presents the personal lives of this diving's heroes. It is illustrated with photographs that capture each interviewee throughout their diving careers.
First Dive to Shark Dive
Author: Peter LouriePublisher: Boyds Mills Press
ISBN: 9781590780688
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Describes how twelve-year-old Suzanna learned how to scuba dive and with her father, Peter swam with the sharks of Andros.
The Bends
Author: John L. PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : Compressed air
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book is a wide-ranging history of the wonders compressed air brought about and the suffering its unknown hazards inflicted. John L. Phillips explores the intertwining roles of science, technology, engineering, medicine, and politics in the invention of compressed air, the recognition and identification of decompression sickness, and the hundred-year-long process of learning to understand and treat the bends.
Diving Beetles of the World
Author: Kelly B. MillerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421420554
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The first comprehensive book in more than a century to reveal the diversity and natural history of diving beetles. Among the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is one family, containing some 4,300 species, that stands out as one of the most diverse and important groups of aquatic predatory insects. This is the Dytiscidae, whose species are commonly known as diving beetles. No comprehensive treatment of this group has been compiled in over 130 years, a period during which a great many changes in classification and a near quadrupling of known species has occurred. In Diving Beetles of the World, Kelly B. Miller and Johannes Bergsten provide the only full treatments of all 188 Dytiscid genera ever assembled. Entomologists, systematists, limnologists, ecologists, and others with an interest in aquatic systems or insect diversity will find these extensively illustrated keys and taxon accounts immensely helpful. The keys make it possible to identify all taxa from subfamily to genera, and each key and taxon treatment is accompanied by both photographs and detailed pen-and-ink drawings of diagnostic features. Every genus account covers body length, diagnostic characters, classification, species diversity, a review of known natural history, and world distribution. Each account is also accompanied by a range map and at least one high-resolution habitus image of a specimen. Diving beetles are fast becoming important models for aquatic ecology, world biogeography, population ecology, and animal sexual evolution and, with this book, the diversity of the group is finally accessible.
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