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Title: Technical Diving in Depth by Bruce Wienke, Bruce R. Wienke ISBN: 0-941332-97-7 Publisher: Best Publishing Company Pub. Date: 04 January, 2002 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $58.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: do you have the education required to understand?
Comment: The book was owned by a fellow diver and I was able to read it during a drive to a distant dive site. I had plenty of distractions but was able to stay attached to most of the content. Aside from requiring an extensive background foundation in Science, Chemistry, Diving in general, and High-Level Math, I was able to comprehend most of the written material.
It is undoubtedly almost impossible for a person like Dr. Wienke to carry on an intelligent discussion when majority of the population has no common educational background to begin with. I'm sure that Albert Einstein had the same problem as our other scientific scholors do. My hat is off to Dr. Wienke and I admire an individual with such a diverse lifestyle and educational background. I only wish the cost of this book was more in line with the working class of divers out here like me who can't really afford a $60. book. I highly recommned this book, but beware, you must be more intellignet than a high school graduate to fully appreciate and comprehend this material. Four stars! A++++
Rating: 5
Summary: Tech Diving Macro View
Comment: Wow, this is a great book. This has all the stuff and
background you can't find anywhere else. Details are provided
when and where needed, and the problems are right on. What's
also important is that the author is a real tech diver, not just
and academic PhD. And it shows in developments and topics.
Granted solar gravitation is not a central concern for divers,
but the earth linkage and impacts are interesting. And central
to life.
The sections on probabilistic dedompression and risk analysis
are especially well developed and applied simply. Clear
up many misconceptions I have had in the past.
Overall -- get this book as a standard reference if you are
a real tech diver.
Rating: 1
Summary: what is this book about?
Comment: I am supposed to be one of the people this book is written for - a PhD chemist. I bought the book to learn about technical diving. However, if one was to take out all the extraneous material there would be maybe 150 pages left. I did not buy a book to read about cosmology, or gravitation, or Hubbles constant and that is what a whole lot of the book is like -unrelated material. Now, granted I think that a technical diver should be educated but these subjects are treated with such brevity that if you do not already know the material - forget it. Most people will NOT find partial differential equations to be "simple mathematical statements". I loved the Epochal Panoramas on page 236. You are told to look at Figures 12-14 and told the interplay, diversity, timescale, and complexity are boundless - period. Then follows the phosphate, carbon, nitogen , and sulfur cycles in the ocean depicted as diagrams -that's it!!
Page 103-104 (Table one) lists the densities of the elements one through 94 ...huh? Knowing Z, A, and delta for the lanthanides and actinides may enrich your life but it will not do anything for you knowledge on Technical Diving (by the way what happened to the rest of the elements???). By the way, my view that most physicists know little to no chemistry is futher substantiated by the erroneous equations on page 77. CO3 should be CO3(2-) and Na2 and K2 should be 2Na(+) and 2K(+). I will let you figure out what charge if any should be on O - an oxygen ATOM.
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Title: Basic Decompression Theory and Application, Second Edition by Bruce R. Wienke ISBN: 1930536143 Publisher: Best Publishing Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $42.00 |
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Title: The Technical Guide to Gas Blending by Nicos Raftis ISBN: 0941332845 Publisher: Best Publishing Company Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: NOAA Diving Manual: Diving for Science and Technology, Fourth Edition by James T. Joiner ISBN: 0941332705 Publisher: Best Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $93.00 |
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Title: Basic Diving Physics and Applications by B. R. Wienke ISBN: 0941332411 Publisher: Best Publishing Company Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Reduced Gradient Bubble Model in Depth by Bruce R. Wienke ISBN: 1930536119 Publisher: Best Publishing Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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