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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : British Sub Aqua Club, Cave Diving Group, British Canoe Union, Royal Ocean Racing Club. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Le British Sub-Aqua Club (club de plongée sous-marine britannique), ou BSAC représente la majorité des clubs et des plongeurs de loisir au Royaume-Uni. Le club a été fondé en 1953 et compte environ 50 000 membres. Il a pour but de fédérer les plongeurs au Royaume-Uni et d'enseigner la plongée dans le monde entier au travers de ses 400 écoles. La plupart des moniteurs du BSAC sont des amateurs qui enseignent au sein d'un club. Du fait que les eaux de Grande-Bretagne sont plus froides et bénéficient d'une moins bonne visibilité que la plupart des autres, les cursus du BSAC font appel beaucoup plus tôt que d'autres au cours de la formation aux procédures de sauvetage et de secours. Le BSAC dispose de cinq qualifications de plongeur : Le BSAC a six niveaux d'enseignement : Le BSAC a un vaste choix de spécialités : ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Cave diving is a type of technical diving in which specialized SCUBA equipment is used to enable the exploration of natural or artificial caves which are at least partially filled with water. It is an extension of the more common sport of caving, but is much more rarely practised because of the skills and equipment required, and because of the high potential risks. Despite these risks, water-filled caves attract cavers and speleologists due to their often unexplored nature, and present divers with a technical diving challenge. Caves often have a wide range of unique physical features, such as stalactites and stalagmites, and can contain unique flora and fauna not found elsewhere. ... Read more

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This workbook is a training aid intended to be used only as part of a sanctioned NACD cavern or cave diving course. Using this workbook without the supervision and training of a certified instructor will not adequately prepare a person to survive in an overhead aquatic environment. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Word Ways, published by A Ross Eckler on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2053 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Eva: palindromic chaos in a cave.
Author: Bill A. O'Connor
Publication: Word Ways (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: A Ross Eckler
Volume: 35Issue: 2Page: 152(4)

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The ultimate extreme in reading! X-Sports explores the latest and most popular extreme sports with high-action photographs and step-by-step instructions on how to become an X-sport champion. ... Read more

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In a vastly remote past and for a vastly extended period the mighty deep rolled over the surface of a world inform and void depositing a sediment of its used up living tenants the microscopic cases of foraminifera sponges sea-urchins husks and the cast limbs of crustaceans. ... Read more

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Brief text with supplementary questions and answers deal with various aspects of submarines and other underwater craft. ... Read more

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An Introduction to Technical Diving CD-ROM introduces the realm of technical diving through the experiences of the expeditionary team El Proyecto de Buceo Espeleologico Mxico y Amrica Central, led by world record holders Jim Bowden and Dr. Ann Kristovich.

Technical diving departs from normal recreational diving limits as established by recreational training agencies, and it incorporates the use of specialized equipment and techniques.This realm of diving increases the requirements for risk acceptance, equipment, knowledge, skills, and preparation, as well as the level of danger.Despite this increased level of risk, technical diving continues to be a challenging, exhilarating, and rewarding endeavor.The various types of technical diving offer their participants a chance to experience worlds otherwise unseen - a labyrinthine cave system, the mysteries in the depths of a frozen lake, and the history of a sunken shipwreck.

This CD-ROM defines, elucidates, and pictorially portrays the various types of technical diving, as well as the equipment and skills needed to safely participate and/or pursue certification.Although it is not intended to be a substitute for formal training, An Introduction to Technical Diving CD-ROM provides comprehensive detailed information in a beautifully illustrated format and can be used as either a reference source or an educational aid for divers of all training levels. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

An expensive postcard
Having met nearly all of the people involved in making this CD, I must say that it is extremely disappointing--they have more interesting stories posted for free on the net.

Most of what is contained in this CD can be found in greater detail in product manuals--in other words, stale.Furthermore, there is information I would classify as misleading and even dangerous in some cases.This CD is an impressive example of how to use Shockwave Macromedia, but lacking in substance

The products recently available from gue.com, such as "Getting Clear on the Basics: The Fundamentals of Technical Diving" actually cost less and are far more appropriate for those looking into technical diving.

a must see for those interested in technical diving!
as a new cave diver i was delighted to find a CD ROM on technical diving. this was a nice exploration of the many facets of technical diving. well written and well produced, this CD is worth the time and the money. for what it's worth, as a fairly new "technical" diver, i have been overwhelmed by the political nature of the sport...and i was suprised by the negative reviews posted for such a great product. you be the judge

Terrible. Unsafe information.
This author clearly has a limited view of technical diving techniques and safety. It's difficult to get much at all from this extremely short 'book', but what material is there is lacking discussion of any accepted modern techniques employed by the technical diver. Those active in the sport have learned to 'do it right' and opt to stay away from most of what is presented by this author.

Little more than a brochure...
The CD is woefully short on content.I figure that if you were to print it out on paper, it might add up to no more than 25 or so pages. There's very little the CD actually says outside of what you could learn if you were able to chat with a technical diver for 10 minutes.I went through the CD in all of 20 minutes, and started scrounging around if there were any sections I missed.There were none.

I can't help but shake the notion that the CD was just slapped together with no real fore-thought.There are a lot of nice photographs, but even then the captions are rarely informative. Don't expect a National Geographic, where it can be enough to just view the photos and read their captions.

The interface is visually engaging, but otherwise, the CD seems a bit empty to me.There are no in-depth discussions on the equipment used, and what makes them different from recreational type equipment, neither are there discussions on the special techniques or considerations for the type of diving involved.

Neither are there enough anecdotal information about actual technical dives done.There are no real stories, which would have made the disc completely worth it.

Perhaps the title is all too apt.It's what I would expect of the introduction chapter to a book about technical diving.I can imagine that a non-diver, or a diver who's really new into diving might find it very worthwhile.

Sadly, I find it not worth the value.More can be learned by simply surfing the 'Net for maybe an hour or so.Or better still get a real book on the topic.

If you're interested at getting into this type of diving, and expecting a searchable reference to serve as a means to jumpstart your knowledge base, this CD isn't it.

My two cents: skip this CD, and move on to something better.

Dive safe and often!

taj d.

divemaster

just great, it's a 7 star CD
I'm waiting for the other's CD's about diving. This one is just great, it was that I was loking for. ... Read more

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a British cave-diving manual
The Cave Diving Group of Great Britain's previous manual was published in 1990, so it was definitely due for an update. In Britain, cave diving means solo side-mount sump diving, and that is the main subject of the manual. In the US, sump diving is considered a specialty to be tackled only after one has received full cave-diving training and certification, although, inevitably, some cavers far from Florida will undertake sump diving without having gone through all that expense. For them, this book will be especially important, although of course the ritual caution that one shouldn't try it based only on book-learning is rightly made. In Britain, cave-diving is a specialized form of caving, not diving, and a potential cave-diver must have dry-caving experience to even be accepted as a CDG trainee. In noteworthy contrast to US practice, CDG members never charge for training.

The various (unidentified) authors vary conspicuously in literacy, but everything is clear enough. The sump-diving stuff will be helpful to a US cave-diver wanting to "advance" to sump diving. But there are also chapters on advanced topics more useful in places with longer or deeper sumps or underwater caves, including mixed-gas diving, scooters, and rebreathers. These sections focus mainly on hazards peculiar to using those in caves, rather than basic training, which you are assumed to have gotten elsewhere. One covered British specialty has, so far as I know, not been done over here because we are not yet that desperate: underwater digging. Some British divers pursue underwater digs in a way that can only be called fanatical. I read in the Cave Diving Group Newsletter of one caver who has made 180 dives to the same dig so far.

Little effort has been made to make the book inexpensive, unfortunately. There are enough color photos that one pays color laser-printing prices for the entire book, and this, coupled with the mandatory airmail shipping to the US from the printer, makes the total cost high. The hard-core or rich American cave-diver with ten tanks and regulators and two scooters may not cringe at the price, but it is not for him that this book was written.--Bill Mixon ... Read more