Main description:

Over the past 60 years the U.S. Navy Diving Manual has been recognized internationally as the standard for diving tables. This manual has become one of the most comprehensive manuals on all diving operations, including air and mixed gas tables, closed and semi-closed circuit operations, diving medicine and recompression chamber operations. At over 1000 A4 pages the manual is unsurpassed in technical detail and depth. As the ultimate diving reference work it contains everything you ever wanted to know about diving and covers all relevant operational procedures and guidelines. The manual is however surprisingly easy to read. One of the reasons for this is that it is in fact made up of five individual volumes. These cover the following material:- Volume 1: Diving Principles and Policies. Volume 2: Air Diving Operations. Volume 3: Mixed Gas Surface Supplied Diving Operations. Volume 4: Closed Circuit and Semiclosed Circuit Diving Operations. Volume 5: Diving Medicine and Recompression Chamber Operations. Each volume has been extensively researched and is widely regarded as the technical standard for diving information and procedures.
The manual is easily referenced and used internationally by recreational, commercial and military divers because of its authoritative and approved procedures. It contains the most up to date decompression tables, and techniques for avoiding decompression sickness. This manual is a must for all serious divers.

Contents:

VOLUME 1: DIVING PRINCIPLES AND POLICY, 1 History of Diving, 2 Underwater Physics, 3 Underwater Physiology and Diving Disorders, 4 Dive Systems, 5 Dive Program Administration, Appendix 1A Safe Diving Distances from Transmitting Sonar, Appendix 1B References, Appendix 1C Telephone Numbers, Appendix 1D List of Acronyms. VOLUME 2: AIR DIVING OPERATIONS, 6 Operational Planning and Risk Management, 7 Scuba Air Diving Operations, 8 Surface Supplied Air Diving Operations, 9 Air Decompression, 10 Nitrogen Oxygen Diving Operations, 11 Ice and Cold Water Diving Operations, Appendix 2A Optional Shallow Water Diving Tables. VOLUME 3: MIXED GAS SURFACE SUPPLIED DIVING OPERATIONS, 12 Mixed Gas Diving Theory, 13 Mixed Gas Operational Planning, 14 Surface-Supplied Mixed Gas Diving Procedures, 15 Saturation Diving, 16 Breathing Gas Mixing Procedures. VOLUME 4: CLOSED CIRCUIT AND SEMICLOSED CIRCUIT DIVING OPERATIONS, 17 MK16 MOD 0 Closed Circuit Mixed-Gas UBA Diving, 18 MK16 MOD 1 Closed Circuit Mixed-Gas UBA Diving, 19 Closed Circuit Oxygen UBA Diving, Appendix 4A MK16 MOD 1 Use in Non-EOD Environments. VOLUME 5: DIVING MEDICINE & RECOMPRESSION CHAMBER OPERATIONS, 20 Diagnosis and Treatment of Decompression Sickness and Arterial Gas Embolism, 21 Recompression Chamber Operation, Appendix 5A Neurological Examination, Appendix 5B First Aid, Appendix 5C Hazardous Marine Creatures.