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Into the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life diving adventures from Rod's long and varied diving career. It follows his progression from novice diver in the 1980s through the dangers of the deep air diving era and on to trimix diving in the 1990s where divers began to use commercial mixed breathing gases as the sport of technical diving was born. This opened up vast, previously inaccessible, swathes...
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In Deeper into the Darkness Rod takes the reader diving to explore many more famous wrecks around the UK from the Great War. These include HMS Pathfinder and HMS Audacious — the first British battleship to be lost to enemy action in WWI. The wreck of HMS Hampshire on which Lord Kitchener perished on a secret mission to Russia in 1916 is visited along with HMS Vanguard, which blew up at anchor in 1917 in Scapa Flow. The K-class submarines lost in...
83) Dive Scapa Flow
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Dive Scapa Flow has been THE definitive guide to diving the fabled wrecks of Scapa Flow, one of the world's greatest wreck diving locations. This completely re-written and updated centenary edition is produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the scuttle of the 74 warships of the interned German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow on 21st June 1919 – the greatest act of maritime suicide the world has ever seen. The dark depths of Scapa Flow conceal...
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Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable account of the build-up to and implementation of Operation Desecrate 1 – the raid undertaken to destroy Japanese ships and aircraft in the lagoons of Palau. He uses his intimate knowledge of shipwrecks to reveal in glorious detail each of the 20 major Japanese WWII shipwrecks lying at the bottom of the Palauan lagoons today. On 30th March, 1944 Grumman...
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Swimming improves your flexibility, tones your body and can help to boost your self-esteem and produce a sense of well being. It is the nation's most popular sporting activity with 11.9 million people swimming regularly. However, most people don't know how to swim properly. This book is based on a 35-year voyage of discovery into the art of swimming. Steven Shaw's method takes the Alexander Technique into the swimming pool—focusing on releasing...
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Wild Currents: Poems On The Transformative Power of Water in Turbulent Times
The world of wild swimming is where souls are restored, heavy hearts are healed, and the deep immersion in nature is resource-ing a new age of seekers.
The explosion of wild swimming during the pandemic is testament to the power of taking the plunge, how nature is plugging us back into source, and how the need to immerse in nature is a powerful tool for change.
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Éste es un libro sobre el mar. No se lee, se bucea. Trata de buscar la significación humana a través de nuestra presencia marina. La profundidad es una distancia donde se esconde la verdadera intimidad de uno.
Cuando entramos en el agua se activan en nuestro cerebro muchos mecanismos que nos conectan con la parte de nosotros que nos define, que nos crea. Si bien el buceo a pulmón es uno de los modos para lograr esa sutura con uno mismo, el océano...
88) Crete Swim
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Introducing a new adventure guide for people who love to travel and SWIM
• This is a pioneering swim travel guide with over 20 locations around the Mediterranean island of Crete, where open water swimmers can discover routes between 25 meters and 6 km that have a particular beauty, novelty, scenery, or history.
• Explore impressive marine caves, fabulous beaches, circumnavigate islets, and swim through tunnels, gorges, and under sea arches.
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A book to help you unlock the power of the mind-body connection that's essential for achieving your peak diving performance.
Perfect for divers of all ages, as well as their parents and coaches, Embodied Confidence: 30 Days of Radical Mindset Shifts for Divers, is designed to help you unlock the power of the mind-body connection that's required to access your peak performance potential.
You'll learn to notice the mindsets that prevent your success...
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El socorrismo en un medio acuático se desarrolla en un espacio donde conviven personas, de manera que, como en toda convivencia, surgen problemas de conducta entre usuarios, accidentes, etc. de ahí la importancia de estar preparados para cualquier situación, manejando las técnicas de primeros auxilios a la perfección, así como estar dotados de una formación y habilidades sociales que transmitan seguridad y confianza a cualquier persona necesitada...
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This is a new edition of Greg Louganis's 1995 #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography and Literary Guild Selection. It is the unflinchingly honest first-person account of a man breaking free of a lifetime of silence and isolation. Born to a young Samoan father and Northern European mother, and adopted at nine months, Greg began diving at age nine, and at sixteen won a silver medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. But despite his astonishing athletic...
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Discover the life-transforming power of swimming! "Dive into Wellness" is your ultimate guide to unlocking the incredible health benefits of this age-old activity. Whether you're a seasoned swimmer or just dipping your toes into the water, this eBook is your passport to a healthier, happier you.Dive into Fitness: Immerse yourself in the world of aquatic exercise and experience a full-body workout like no other. Learn how swimming can help you shed...
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A deeply personal and inspiring memoir from the celebrated Olympic gold medal diver and LGBTQ+ advocate
Tom Daley is one of the most beloved athletes of our time, having competed as a diver in four Olympics, garnering medals and finally, in 2021 in Tokyo, winning gold. But few people know the realities of his life beyond the pool, his struggles, his secret triumphs and the mindset he needed to cultivate to become a champion.
In this deeply personal...
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You will find in this book some valuable and reliable lessons about safe diving.
The editors of and authors of this book are a cadre of scientists and physicians with broad experience and knowledge of diving physiology and decompression theory. As is often the case, it requires a group effort to succeed in advancing practical knowledge. The colloquialism "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is often true and the PHYPODE Reasearch Group...
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The seventeen thousand islands of the Indonesian archipelago sweep across the single richest marine environment in the world. These warm, clear, uncrowded waters contain fully fifteen percent of the world's coral reefs, and support close to 4,000 species of fish. It is, indisputably, a diver's paradise. Periplus's critically acclaimed Diving Indonesia, now in its fourth revision, is the pioneer guide to this fascinating, and still little-known, island...
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Prepare to peek into the mind of a champion, known as the most decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals, including 23 gold, with this newly updated edition of Michael Phelps's autobiography, Beneath the Surface.
In this candid memoir, Phelps talks openly about his battle with attention deficit disorder, the trauma of his parents' divorce, and the challenges that come with being thrust into the limelight. Readers worldwide will relive all the...
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These Swimming Skills Will Save Your Life! Discover everything you need to escape your enemies and survive in the water.
Inside this three-part training manual, you will learn:
Efficient Swimming. Swimming lessons to swim faster and longer, including while swimming underwater.
Water Safety and Survival. Learn the dangers of open water and how to survive in it.
Water Rescue. Essential water rescue skills of others in pools and open water.
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If you are planning to take your Advanced Open Water Diver course in a few weeks, then you need a study guide that will help you prepare for the final test and knowledge review questions. The theory part consists of knowledge review questions, based on the mandatory and elective specialty dives. The PADI Adventure Diver and the Advanced Open Water Diver are some of the most fun and exciting courses out there, allowing students to broaden their knowledge...
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Barbados is the renowned jewel of the Caribbean, famous for white sandy beaches decorated with palm trees and surrounded by clear warm water, but below the waves, the thriving coral reefs are teeming with marine life, from tiny seahorses to giant whale sharks. The Barbados Dive Guide 2nd edition book depicts the natural beauty of this underwater world with over 150 stunning photos, so any level of diver can experience these wonders for themselves,...
100) My box-shaped heart
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"Holly's mom is a hoarder, and Holly is fed up with being picked on at school for being weird...and having the wrong clothes...and sticking out. All she wants is to be invisible. She loves swimming, because in the water everyone is the same. Ed goes to the swimming pool because everything else in his life has changed. In his old life, he had money, was on the swim team, and knew who he was and what he wanted. In his old life his dad hit his mom. Holly...