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Technical Nitrox Diving: A Manual for Nitrox Scuba Divers
By Captain Fred Calhoun, PE with Cecile Christensen
34 pages, 8-1/2x5-3/8, saddle stitched, tables
No ISBN
Pub Date: 2008
Price $12.00
Recently updated to reflect the latest U.S. Navy dive tables, this book is for experienced divers who are acquainted with and wish to lessen the occurence of narcosis and decompression sickness. Its purpose is to describe the features and advantages of nitrox scuba diving, and to provide individuals with the knowledge that will assist them in becoming certified at the Nitrox Scuba Diver level.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Two Diving Diseases (The Problems)
- Nitrox Diving (A Solution)
- Nitrox Nomenclature
- Air and Nitrox No-Decompression Tables (Tables 1,2, and 3)
- Equivalent Air Depth (EAD)
- No-Deco. Limits (Min) for Air, Nitrox-I, Nitrox-II
- Switching Gas Mixtures (Using Tables 1, 2, and 3)
- Making Nitrox (Mixing Gas)
- Cleaned for Oxygen Service
- Maintenance
- Marking and Labeling of Nitrox Scuba Cylinders
- Some Useful Formulas and Information
- Purity Standards for Air
- Oxygen Poisoning (Ox-Tox)
- CNS Oxygen Toxicity
- The CNS Oxygen Scale
- Pulmonary (Whole Body) Oxygen Poisoning
- Avoiding Oxygen Toxicity
- Table-1 Air No-Decompression Table
- Table-2 Nitrox-I No-Decopression Table
- Table-3 Nitrox-II No-Decompression Table
- Table-4 Nitrox-I and Nitrox-II Decompression Tables
- Table-5 Oxygen/Nitrogen Limits Table
- Table-5 CNS & OTU Loading
- Definitions and Abbreviations
- Expanded Air Residual Nitrogen Times Table
- Expanded Air No-Decompression Limits Table
About the Authors
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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