Technical Diving In Depth

A long-awaited and much-needed title has just been released by BPC. "Technical Diving in Depth" by Bruce R. Wienke is the most complete and comprehensive reference work published to date on technical diving. It contains a mixture of technical topics with each one self-contained and developed in relationship to diving. The topics span many disciplines and focus on a number of technical arenas. Topics Include: Thermodynamics pressure and density mechanics gas kinetics free and dissolved phase transfer energy and matter interactions nucleation and cavitation bubbles and surfactants oxygen dose gas mixtures buoyancy gauges and tanks compressors and regulators maladies and drugs statistics risk and probability binomial distributions waves transport currents geology oceanography geophysics solar energy and radiation. References and Appendix are also included. Targeted Audience: Technical diver commercial diver diving instructor underwater researcher doctors hyperbaric technicians physiologist physicist chemist mathematician engineer or biologist.