By Captain Fred Calhoun
96 pages, 8-1/2x5-3/8, saddle stitched, line drawings
No ISBN
Pub Date: 2004
Price $15.00

Complete 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
• Build a Weight Harness
• All the Numbers
• Simple Harnesses
• Rescuing a Back-Pack
• Beating the Band
• "BC" Things to Consider
• Dealing with "BCs"
• Doffing the Scuba Unit
• Donning the Scuba Unit
• Doff a Simple Harness
• Doff a Vest
• Taming the Slide
• Improved "BC" Rigging
• Two Bad Ideas
• Surface Float - Part I
• Surface Float - Part II
• Divers Flag 'N Tube
• Float Line Holder
• Technical Diving
• Regulator Care - I
• Regulator Care - II
• Rescuing Your Gauge(s)
• The Piston Regulator
• Breathing Resistance
• Hose Wrapped at Neck
• Positioning the Octopus
• Regulator Tips
• The Standard Regulator
• Sweeten Each Breath
• Nitrox-I Simplified
• Clearing a Mask
• Protecting your Mask
• Dumb and Dangerous
• Prescription Lens Masks
• The Purge Valve Mask
• Scuba Masks
• The Inner Tube Mask
• Simple Signals
• Basic Scuba Assembly
• Basic Assembly with "BC"
• Simple Lifts
• Taming the Fin Strap
• De-finning Made Easy
• Enough about Fins
• Make Your Own Fins
• Save the Reefs
• About Scuba Cylinders
• Cylinder Inspections
• Fill Station Requirements
• Cylinder Markings
• Cylinder Add-ons
• Cylinder Garters
• Hydrostatic Testing
• About Cylinder Boots
• Re-valve Your Cylinder
• Let There Be Light
• A Little About Valves
• More About Valves (DIN)
• Cut A Tapered Thread
• Sportsways Valve
• Gear Draining Box
• Dive Boat Tips-I
• Dive Boat Tips-II
• The Buddy System
• The Divers Flag
• The Alpha Flag
• Grasping at Zippers
• Airing Out Your Boots
• De-zipping Your Boots
• Keeping Water Out
• Divers Mitts
• Staying Warm
• The Drysuit Zipper
• Enough About Drysuits
• Enough About Wetsuits
• Enough About Snorkels
• Build a Simple Snorkel
• Compass Navigation
• The Compass Course
• Simple Navigation
• Field Repair Tools
• Field Repairs Kit
• Dangling Stuff (Don't)
• Splicing Rope
• Bug-Bag 'N Tube
• Decompression Table
• Avoiding "The Bends"
• Inflatable of Choice