DEEPER INTO DIVING, 2nd Edition By John Lippmann & Dr. Simon Mitchell 512 pages, 6-3/4x9-3/4 inches, paperback, 97 B&W Photos, 137 Charts--Diagrams--Tables, 30 Illustrations, Index, Bibliography ISBN 0-9752290-1-X Price: $65.00

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Foreword

John Lippmann and Dr. Simon Mitchell, both experts in diving, have revised and updated Lippmann's excellent earlier edition, and made it even better. Deeper Into Diving provides comprehensive discussions of both technical/procedural and physiological/medical issues of diving.

Lippmann and Mitchell are both skilled writers, and in this book they have made many complicated subjects easily understood.

The book is comprehensive enough to appeal not only to advanced recreational divers and instructors, but also to those who want to learn about decompression tables and technical diving.

Specific chapters on nitrox diving, technical diving, decompression table development, dive computers, flying after diving and rebreathers are particularly topical.

As a complement to more specialized diving medical texts, Deeper Into Diving will be very useful to both medics and physicians who take care of divers or perform diving fitness evaluations. Its state-of-the-art overview of specific diving-related medical issues is perfectly matched with divers‘ and medical providers‘ common concerns regarding decompression illness, women‘s health, pregnancy, bone necrosis, hypothermia and the interaction of drugs with the diving environment.

For the reader who wants more information, pertinent additional sources are listed. For anyone looking for a delightfully written overiew of diving, this book is a must.

John Lippmann began diving some 35 years ago and developed an avid interest in deeper diving. He has been involved in researching, teaching, writing and consulting on safe diving, decompression and accident management for the past 30 years. He has specialized in certain areas including resuscitations, first aid, oxygen administration, dive rescue and various aspects of decompression and deeper diving.

John has authored, or co-authored, many books which have been published and distributed worldwide. These include The DAN Emergency Handbook, Deeper Into Diving (first edition), The Essentials of Deeper Sport Diving, Scuba Safety in Australia, Oxygen First Aid, First Aid & Emergency Care, Automated External Defibrillators, Advanced Oxygen First Aid, Basic Life Support, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, and the Ambulance Service Victoria First Aid Training Manual. John's articles on dive safety, decompression and accident management have been published in medical, technical and recreational dive journals throughout the world.

Dr. Simon Mitchell (BHB, MB ChB, DipDHM, DipOccMed, PhD) began diving in his teenage years and what became a recreational passion subsequently drove his academic and professional career.

Simon now looks back on a 33-year diving history of over 6,000 dives that has spanned sport, scientific, commercial, and military diving.

Simon trained in medicine, completed a PhD in embolic brain injury, and received certification in diving and hyperbaric medicine from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

He has published more than 30 research and review papers on medical topics, and wrote two chapters for the latest edition of Bennett and Elliot's Physiology and Medicine of Diving.

He is an active technical diver, and in 2002 with Trevor Jackson completed a 587-foot (178m) dive to the wreck of the Kyogle off Brisbane.

"For the serious diving professional, this outstanding book is a must. John Lippmann is probably more familiar with the great variety of decompression theories and approaches than anyone else in diving and has shared his research and insight in an easily-understandable format."—Dennis Graver, Former Dir. of Educ, PADI & NAUI

Although it does deal with the basic environmental physics and physiology, it rapidly enters the complex world of gas dynamics, exchange, effects and pathophysiology leading to the major diving disorders. Throughout this text there are summaries of current beliefs and practical guidelines for safer diving techniques. But it is not a text for doctors, it is designed for the more intelligent diver, the experienced diver, and the technical diver.

The large section on decompression, ranging from the history and development of decompression concepts, to the latest information on decompression computers and algorithms, is probably the most comprehensive and best-presented treatise available to divers.

The tables, diagrams and photographs are well illustrated and informative. I would have preferred the index to be more comprehensive, but the major subjects are easily found.

For those divers wishing to extend their knowledge beyond the recreational diving envelope, into decompression diving, technical diving, deep, nitrox or mixed gas diving, and rebreathers, this text is a must. It is a worthy successor to Lippmann's excellent previous books, on related subjects and on diving medical problems." —Dr. Carl Edmonds, Diving Medical Centre, Sydney, Australia

"Deeper into Diving is a straight forward, no nonsense presentation of the medical and physiological problems of diving and how they relate to diving practice. It is a useful text to introduce non-medical divers to the medical problems of diving and to provide non-diving medical personnel an understanding of how the diving environment can influence physical well-being. Avoidance of diving medical problems is emphasized with solid explanations of underlying mechanisms. Over one-third of the book is devoted to decompression including altitude diving and flying after diving. There are extensive "how-to" discussions of a wide variety of decompression tables and computers including an introduction to probability tables. Technical diving equipment and procedures are well-described. Many drawings, cartoons, and figures teach, illustrate, or illuminate points in the text, and there are lots of excellent black and white underwater photographs. (If only they had been in color!) References for further reading are plentiful. This is a good solid text for the practical diver who wants to know more." —Dr. Richard Vann, Duke University/Divers Alert Network, Durham, NC

"John Lippmann and Dr. Simon Mitchell have carefully updated and revised a second version of Deeper into Diving providing the reader with a very useful and readable source of information. Anyone who is looking for in-depth information on decompression systems, diving physiology and many technical aspects of diving will find this an excellent source of information and reference. My compliments to both authors for producing such a fine work." —Dr. Drew Richardson, President, Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI)

"Any book that has a pun for a title can't be too bad; this book, written by my good friends and colleagues in diving, John Lippmann and Simon Mitchell, is, to use an Australian colloquialism, "a beauty". John and Simon are, in no special order, good teachers, good writers and good divers. It should come as no surprise then that this book is as good as it is. The diving community needed a good and up-to-date reference and this book fits the bill.

I would encourage any serious diver and health professional with an interest in the medical problems of divers to both buy and read a copy, and then to consider the nature of their diving practice." —Professor Des Gorman, Head of the School of Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand

"John Lippmann and Dr. Simon Mitchell, both experts in diving, have revised and updated Lippmann's excellent earlier edition, and made it even better. Deeper into Diving provides comprehensive discussions of both technical/procedural and physiological/medical issues of diving... The book is comprehensive enough to appeal not only to advanced recreational divers and instructors, but also to those who want to learn about decompression tables and technical diving. Specific chapters on nitrox diving, technical diving, decompression table development, dive computers, flying after diving and rebreathers are particularly topical... Its state-of-the-art overview of specific diving-related medical issues is perfectly matched with divers' and medical providers' common concerns regarding decompression illness, women's health, pregnancy, bone necrosis, hypothermia and the interaction of drugs with the diving environment...For anyone looking for a delightfully written overview of diving, this book is a must."

"John Lippmann's and Simon Mitchell's Deeper into Diving is an excellent book for anyone wishing to progress beyond entry level diving. It addresses the issues relevant to more advanced diving techniques in a clear and concise manner, presenting information on the various available methodologies to enable divers to make an informed decision on which is most appropriate to the type of diving they wish to undertake. More experienced divers wishing to progress into the 'technical' field of diving will find the book a useful introduction to the further implications that this entails. Deeper into Diving avoids complex terminology in addressing its subjects making it an easy and enjoyable read. A book for every diver's bookshelf." —Trevor Davies, former Rescue Skills Chief Examiner, British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC)