Diving Below 130 Feet

This book is the fourth book in the diving series after The Art of Gas Blending, Dive Computers, Deep and Safety Stops, Including Ascent Rate and Gradient Factors and is about the effects of diving on the human body, especially long duration and deep diving.

Some of the topics covered are:
• Why people do deep dives
• Training needed to dive deeper than 130 feet safely
• The mental shift needed to transform from a recreational diver to a survival diver
• Handelling unforeseen events underwater when you cannot surface immediatily
• BCD-breathing
• Swapping regulators underwater
• Caffeine and diving
• Smoking and diving
• Sugar and diving
• Fatty foods and diving
• Certain medication and diving
• Breast implants and diving
• Diving while breast feeding
• Effects of oxygen to the brain and body
• Isobaric counter diffusion decompression sickness covered in-depth with example caculations
• Depth records
• Rebreathers compared to open circuit
• Women and diving
• Men and diving
• Supplements for deep diving
• Breathing exercises for deep diving
• Common mistakes made in deep diving that can kill you
• Handling missed decompression
• IWR (in-water recompression)
• Liquid breathing
• Effects of diving on the body, both long and short term

Note, this book is not a training manual for deep diving, however technical divers and divers interested in technical diving will find it of great value. The more knowledge you have, the better equipped you are to handle unforeseen problems and come back alive. To change your diving safely, you will have to change your thinking.