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Basic Technical Diving Manual
By Captain Fred Calhoun, PE
Edited by Cecile Christensen
42 pages, 8-1/2x5-3/8, saddle stitched, tables
No ISBN
Pub Date: 2005
Price $12.00
This book is a basic training manual for techinical diving. Technical diving is the practice of utilizing comfortable and proper scuba equipment containing air, and respirable gases other than air, while practicing extended depth/schedule diving. The principal aspects of basic technical diving are mixed gases knowledge and decompression knowledge. Technical diving is not defined as wearing an excessive amount of equipment, hoses, bottles, straps, buckles or brass snaps.The knowledge gained from this book is no replacement for experience.
Table of Contents
- Definition
- Introduction
- General
- The Buddy System
- Common Considerations
- How Big Is Your Tank?
- Locked Gas
- Pressure Loss Due to Cooling
- Summary: Locked Gas/Loss Due to Cooling
- Weight and Buoyancy Changes
- Gas For Suit Compression Compensation
- Travel Gas For Descent
- Air Required For No-Decom Dives Below 180 feet
- Air Required For Ascent
- Gas For a 5-Minutes-At-10 Feet Safety Stop
- Extended Schedule Air/nirox Decom Diving
- Air Required For Extended Technical Dives
- Nitrox Required For Decompression
- Omitted Decompression
- Equipment
- Regulators
- Regulator Pre-Dive Check
- Hoses in General
- Containing Hoses
- Cylinders
- Reserve Gas Supply
- Snaps, Clips, Buckles, etc.
- Inflating a Lift bag
- What's Important Isn't Redundant
- The Technical Rig
- Buoyancy Control
- The Harness
- Ballast (weights)
- Knives
- Documentation Equipment
- Instrumentation
- Equipment Needed For Decompression
- Respiratory Minute Colume (RMV)
- U.S. Navy Decompression Table
- Appendix
- Decompression Sickness
- Glossary
About the Author & Editor
Captain Fred Calhoun is registered professional engineer. He has been diving since 1953 during which time he has owned a dive shop, and since 1978, captained the dive boat Easy Rider out of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Fred began teaching scuba in 1957 and has been a certified instructor for NEC, YMCA, NAUI and PDIC. He is the recipient of the NAUI Outstanding Achievement Award and was one of the original inductees in the NAUI Hall of Honor. He is also the recipient of the SSI Platinum Pro 5000 award and the J.B Green award.
Together with his wife Chris, Fred has made several award-winning underwater films including The Wall (CINE Prize) about diving the Tongue of the Ocean, and Largo (Knights of Malta, Island of Malta Prize) shot off the coast of the Florida Keys.
Cecile Christensen has been scuba diving since 1966 and is a NAUI instructor. She ia a principal of the Boston Scuba Diving Show and the first mate of the dive charter boat Easy Diver. In addition, she is a film and video editor/producer who has produced Florida Keys and Bahamas dive guides.
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