| Diver Down: Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them |  | Author: Michael Ange
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 36,148
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0071445722
Dewey Decimal Number: 797.230289
EAN: 9780071445726
ASIN: 0071445722
Publication Date: September 27, 2005
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One diver, after a seemingly brief period below the surface, discovers that his gas supply has run perilously low. Another, paralyzed, bobs helplessly on the surface, and when a poorly trained divemaster attempts rescue, things go from bad to worse. Two other divers, fascinated by the bountiful undersea life of the Caribbean, fail to notice that a powerful current is sweeping them rapidly away from their unattended boat. These are just a few of the true stories you’ll find in Diver Down, most of them involving diver error and resulting in serious injury or death. Each of these tales is accompanied by an in-depth analysis of what went wrong and how you can recognize, avoid, and respond to similar underwater calamities. This unique survival guide explores the gamut of diving situations, including cave and wreck diving, deep-water dives, river and drift diving, decompression sickness, and much more. It shows you how to prevent tragic mishaps through: - Inspection and maintenance of primary and secondary diving gear
- Learning and following established safety protocols
- Confirming the training and credentials of diving professionals
- Practicing emergency responses under real-world conditions
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 Absolutely Essential Reading for Divers November 11, 2005
David R. Bush (Titusville, FL)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book should be required reading for an Advanced Diver rating or above (probably even open water, but might add too much stress to beginers). It is absolutely fantastic and definitly could save your life or the life of someone you love. Please don't kill yourself with mistakes that others have already made. Learn from the mistakes of others and avoid them. That is what this book is all about. This book has several stories of dive mistakes and what lessons can be learned from each case. If you are a diver I would consider this book to be #1 on your must read list. Get it, read it, live it, and dive happy!
SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING June 5, 2006
Robert F. Burgess (North Florida)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you already are, or hope to be a certified scuba diver -- or for that matter -- are just a snorkeler, this book could save your life. Michael Ange's Diver Down, Real-World Scuba Accidents How to Avoid Them should be required reading for ALL divers and divers-to-be. No diver among us is so proficient that this book won't make him more aware of the many mishaps that can befall divers in ways beyond our imagination. Take the dive master who ducked under the dive boat in heaving seas to cut heavy tangled monofilament from the boat's propeller. Simple enough, right? Yup, until a flailing hook on that line goes through his hand and he can't cut the wire leader and finds himself minutes away from death because his air is running out.
Or what about the 35-year-old women on a shallow water river drift dive who are so exhuberant that they let the currents pull them downstream far from their group with their dive flag and end up under a pontoon boat who's churning propeller could instantly do them in.
Or how about the two pro cave divers with a novice on the end of the cave dive line and when they turn the dive he leads them back the way they came but being untrained he gets himself off into a side tunnel because he didn't know what a gapped life line meant, while the others go out only to find him missing....permanently.
Ange shows us one fatal or near fatal accident after another and analyzes the often small but fatally critical mistakes divers make. Read these lessons and remember them. They could save you or your dive buddy from serious troubles. I have made over 5,000 dives in my lifetime and know the value of this book. I wrote the book The Cave Divers back in 1976 long before any training program to save divers from killing themselves in caves. Such simple things as taking the wrong lifeline in with them was sufficient to kill them two at a time. Yellow ski ropes as a lifeline we now know are neutral buoyancy and entangle divers at depth in dark caves.
Or how about exhaled bubbles scraping sediment off the cave roof and obliterating any hope of seeing one's way out. In those days few knew the causes because victims never survived to tell the tales. Consequently, divers made the same fatal mistakes one after another.
Ange does us a much needed service with his analysis of these easily made mistakes. If we don't pay attention to the lessons they teach, we can very easily relive those mistakes and become yet another dive statistic. This book will help you avoid that. Believe me.
Robert F. Burgess
Worth Reading February 14, 2007
Don (Melbourne, Vic, Australia)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The only thing better than learning from your mistakes is learning from someone else' mistakes. This book provides an opportunity to learn from a lot of other peoples' mistakes.
I fully agree with other comments about how SCUBA training agencies tend to de-emphasise the risks of diving to avoid putting people off. I understand their objective, but I'm not convinced that this does not do a disservice to novice divers.
This book, with its detailed descriptions of diving stuff-ups and good analysis of what went wrong and why, provides a way to develop a whole new way of thinking about diving. I believe that reading this could save your life. It's that simple.
Don Gingrich
TDI Certified Deco/Advanced Nitrox
PADI Divemaster in training
Absolute must read for new divers January 15, 2007
victoria smith (sf bay area)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you're a new diver, read this book. It's all about things you don't want to do and elaborates on the absolute ease with which you can find yourself in a potentially fatal situation. It's an enlightening and easy read that you can do in an evening and could save your life one day.
Diver Down January 18, 2007
Albert Schultz (Norrtalje, Sweden)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Excellent. Real life incidents that are analysed and presented in a concise and clear manner. I highly recommend it to all divers. Experienced as well as beginners. "Familiarity breeds contempt" Read this and avoid contempt.
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