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This full-color, extensively illustrated, and highly respected dive manual includes the information necessary to learn open water diving. Timely discussions include ecology and scuba techniques, equipment and safety materials, women's diving issues and concerns, expanded CPR information, air sharing, and hand signals. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

great open water text book; facts, not hype
this book saves the student from the hype and promo that the PADI books now have, and is actually a very good basic text for open water.Jeppesen, the original publisher, publishes all the texts that airplane pilots use and carry in those black bags, called 'jep kits'.

Not a bad book.
Lots of good general information but I found it required more depth in many areas. ... Read more

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"Fodor's Cancun gets high marks." -- Denver Post


The best guide to the area, updated every year
Great walks and drives, plus visits to nature reserves, beaches, lighthouses, markets, and Maya ruins
Where to snorkel and scuba dive, swim with dolphins and windsurf, go deep-sea fishing, play golf, and see bullfights
Dance clubs, live reggae, mariachi music, and jazz
Local handicrafts, jewelry, and contemporary artworks
Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Hotels, resorts, condos, bungalows, and fishing lodges
Smart restaurants and cafés, traditional taquerías


Fresh, thorough, practical -- from writers you can trust
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
All reviews based on visits by savvy writer-residents
21 pages of maps, 9 vacation itineraries, and more
Important contacts, smart travel tips
Fodor's Choice
What's Where
Pleasures Pastimes, don't-miss activities
New & Noteworthy
Festivals
Essay on Yucatecan culture
Spanish vocabulary
Comprehensive index ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Pretty good book. Lots of Info and Phone # which is needed!
I bought this book. There is a lot of info. I would of liked a little more info on Cancun but over all its really good as has 1-800 numbers to the hotels as well!

Not enough info on dining and lodging outside Cancun
I haven't been to the Yucatan in over 6 years, and purchased this book hoping it would have updated info on the area, as I was planning vacation there soon.

I couldn't find enough listings for lodgings and restarantsto satisfy me, and wound up going to the web to get the info I needed. There are so many more hotels and condos south of Cancun, and even south ofTulum that just weren't listed.None of the restaurants we ate at wereeven listed.I couldn't use this guide for my purposes. ... Read more

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Josie's sister Melissa is too perfect, better than her in everything--except in the pool. Josie dreams of Olympic swimming gold, and works hard with her Calgary swim team to achieve it.

So when Melissa decides to join the team too, Josie is outraged and afraid that, once again, her sister will beat her. But as the big invitational swim meet approaches Melissa acts to help make Josie's dream come true, and forces them both to reconsider the value of sisterhood.

Water Fight! is the story of two sisters who overcome sibling rivalry and learn to be themselves. ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in Norway face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment to Norway? How important is Norway compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment vary from one country of origin to another in Norway? On the supply side, Norway also exports water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. Which countries receive the most exports from Norway? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in Norway. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment for those countries serving Norway via exports, or supplying from Norway via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Norway fits into the world market for imported and exported water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Norway in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Norway is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Norway compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes. ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in United States face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment to United States? How important is United States compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment vary from one country of origin to another in United States? On the supply side, United States also exports water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. Which countries receive the most exports from United States? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in United States. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment for those countries serving United States via exports, or supplying from United States via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where United States fits into the world market for imported and exported water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for United States in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that United States is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize United States compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes. ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in Italy face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment to Italy? How important is Italy compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment vary from one country of origin to another in Italy? On the supply side, Italy also exports water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. Which countries receive the most exports from Italy? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in Italy. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment for those countries serving Italy via exports, or supplying from Italy via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Italy fits into the world market for imported and exported water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Italy in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Italy is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Italy compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes. ... Read more

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Illustrated Diver's Guide ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in France face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment to France? How important is France compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment vary from one country of origin to another in France? On the supply side, France also exports water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. Which countries receive the most exports from France? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in France. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment for those countries serving France via exports, or supplying from France via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where France fits into the world market for imported and exported water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for France in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that France is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize France compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes. ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in Hong Kong face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment to Hong Kong? How important is Hong Kong compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment vary from one country of origin to another in Hong Kong? On the supply side, Hong Kong also exports water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. Which countries receive the most exports from Hong Kong? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in Hong Kong. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment for those countries serving Hong Kong via exports, or supplying from Hong Kong via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Hong Kong fits into the world market for imported and exported water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Hong Kong in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Hong Kong is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Hong Kong compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes. ... Read more

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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in Taiwan face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment to Taiwan? How important is Taiwan compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment vary from one country of origin to another in Taiwan? On the supply side, Taiwan also exports water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. Which countries receive the most exports from Taiwan? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment in Taiwan. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment for those countries serving Taiwan via exports, or supplying from Taiwan via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Taiwan fits into the world market for imported and exported water skis, surfboards, sailboards, and other water sport equipment. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Taiwan in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Taiwan is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Taiwan compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes. ... Read more