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New Fun Book:
Diving Physiology in Plain English
available June 1995
246 pages
illustrated
Clear enough for divers at any level, substance for the advanced.
Sample of topics:
* Understanding decompression tables and computers - What are m-values,
compartments, half-times, tissues, tensions, saturation ratios, and other
decompression terms? What do they really mean to you as a diver?
* Physiology of decompression sickness, oxygen toxicity, diving headaches, and
lung injury.
* How to lower your risk of decompression sickness.
* Technical diving - What to do when you have to "go" on long hangs. How to
rehydrate underwater. Gas switching, nitrox, heliox, trimix, hang mixes,
carbon dioxide retention, are you colder breathing helium? more...
* Special considerations for men divers - Effects of pressure change on
testicular and penile implants, hair replacement, fertility, hernias,
steroid use, snoring, chest muscle implants, heart disease, sinking legs,
sudden death, more...
* Issues for women - Pregnancy, breast implants, contraceptive drugs,
osteoporosis, more...
* Diving in cold and heat
* What should divers eat for best performance?
* How to get in shape for diving.
* Why do you have to 'P' when you get in the water?
* Dive reflex
* Free radicals, enzymes, and O2 toxicity
Plus a large annotated glossary
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Diving Physiology in Plain English is by research physiologist
Dr. Jolie Bookspan, formerly scientist for the US Navy.
Price will be about $30.
To order, contact the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc., (UHMS)
who is publishing it:
10531 Metropolitan Avenue Kensington, MD USA 20895-2627
(301) 942-2980
fax (301) 942-7804
Jane Dunn ext. 102
If you would like to be a distributor, call about discounts for bulk orders.
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