Doing Scuba Right is a compilation of tips and techniques from Fred's 50 years of scuba diving experience. You won't find many of these tips in the training manuals of certifying agencies and some of them are quite irreverent. But all of them are thought provoking and you can't help but becoming a better diver by reading this handy collection. It is packed with multiple line drawings on almost every page.

Table of Contents

• Buckle/Belt Tricks
• Working with Webbing
• Belts and Buckles
• All About Weights
• Dealing with Buckles
• About Bouyancy
• Properly Ballasted
• Soft Weight Belts

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About the Author

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.

This is his eighth book.