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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Scientific Diving, A General Code of Practice provides scientific divers with:
-Guidance on safe practice under varying experimental and environmental conditions.
-Recommendations on administrative practices, insurance, terms of employment, medical and training standards, dive planning, safety with different breathing gases and systems (including hazardous equipment) and expedition planning.
-A detailed bibliography, addresses of experts and many other useful appendices.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Introduction.

-Section 1. International Law of the sea.

-Section 2. National legal aspects and administration.

-Section 3. Organization.

-Section 4. Training and medical examinations.

-Section 5. Equipment maintenance.

-Section 6. Safety.

-Section 7. Diving systems other than self-contained compressed air.

-Section 8. Diving in special and extreme conditions.

-Section 9. Boats and support equipment.

-Section 10. Special equipment.

-Section 11. Decompression.

-Section 12. Situations not covered by this code of practice.

-Appendices.

-Tables.

-Figures.

-Photographs.

OUR REVIEW

This is a magnificient manual, wide enough to offer a great deal of information, and summarized enough to be read in its entirety or to use as a reference book easily. Everything that matters to divers is here. The work is therefore the ideal guide to practise diving, both for experts that need an updated work to use as a reference book, and for beginners needing a reliable book to guide them into the exciting adventure of scuba diving.

Many are the questions this manual examines in its over two hundred and fifty DinA4 sized pages, ranging from insurance to the utilization of the GPS (Global Positioning System). The practical advice that it offers covers all kinds of eventualities, for instance, on diving in dangerous areas, which deals with the following scenarios: under polar ice, in high altitude lakes, at night, near dangerous marine animals, near great sized animals, in closed spaces, in super-saline waters, near to underwater volcanoes, from big sized ships, in highly polluted waters or waters containing some toxic substance, near electric fields, in waters colonized by patogen microorganisms, in places that have recently been war zones. The rest of the chapters is likewise divided into a multitude of sections dealing with the most varied aspects of diving.