The author takes a fresh look at the recreational activity of scuba diving including a bit of history, changes that have taken place in the oceans, dumb things divers do, and many personal experiences from diving throughout the world.Tom Leaird became a diver in 1961 and a YMCA Scuba instructor in 1969. He volunteered to either author or co-author nine training manuals. A background in photo lab management came from the U.S. Army plus 31 years with Lifetouch Prestige Portraits. He began Leaird's Underwater Service as a part time scuba store in 1971. Tom has certified more than 250 new instructors from Europe to Hawaii with the Yscuba program until it ended in 2008. To replace that program, he started Scuba Educators International and continues as CEO. Tom and his team of 12 instructors in the area of his home in Muncie, Indiana, have certified over 4000 scuba students and growing.

The author takes a fresh look at the recreational activity of scuba diving including a bit of history, changes that have taken place in the oceans, dumb things divers do, and many personal experiences from diving throughout the world.

If you are ready to get serious about SCUBA diving as a career choice, let this book be a fast-pass through some of the mental, motivational and administrative obstacles that many of us have had to overcome when becoming a diving professional. This book covers everything you need to know to turn your life around and to start teaching SCUBA diving professionally. Some of the chapters include: 1. 7 Habits of a Successful Dive Instructor 2. Getting Your Life Sorted 3. Training Agencies, Dive Centers and Equipment 4. Writing a Good Scuba Resume and Social Media 5. How to Land Your Dream Job 6. Common Mistakes on the Job 7. Safeguard Your Future - Visa, Insurance and Retirement 8. Finding Your Niche 9. Becoming an Industry Leader 10. Advice and Stories from the Pros Nick Derutter is a multi award winning PADI(tm) Platinum Course Director. He has trained hundreds of diving instructors and thousands of recreational divers worldwide. He runs Instructor Development programs in The Americas and Europe, is a Tec Trimix instructor, hyperbaric chamber operator and Diveheart(tm) Adaptive SCUBA Instructor Trainer. Besides teaching SCUBA divers and instructors, he runs a successful online dive store called Dive SAGA(tm), an online diving magazine and a diving media business.

Describes how twelve-year-old Suzanna learned how to scuba dive and with her father, Peter swam with the sharks of Andros.

The Physics of Scuba Diving features questions at the end of each chapter, for which answers can be found by visiting http://nup.com/physics-of-scuba-diving-answer.aspx

Scuba Confidential is a unique book packed full of valuable tips and expert advice, giving you unprecedented access to the secrets of dive professionals and technical divers. With Scuba Confidential, you will learn how to master skills and techniques that will make you a more confident, capable and safe diver. It offers an informed, balanced view on some of scuba diving's most contentious issues like going solo, deep diving and rebreathers and includes a comprehensive analysis of how diving accidents happen and how to make sure you do not become a statistic. Scuba Confidential also gives you valuable insights on a vast range of topics such as what it is like to do a cave diving course, how to make sure you buy the right equipment, what to consider when choosing an instructor, things even the pros get wrong and where to find the best diving in the world. This is candid, no-nonsense practical advice from a professional who has been involved over the last three decades with virtually every aspect of the sport. Have you ever wondered? How to look as comfortable in the water as the professionals do? What it is like to dive inside shipwrecks? Which training courses are most worthwhile? If you would make a good technical diver? If you should be considering a rebreather? How you can improve your diving skills? How you can reduce your air consumption? Why diving accidents happen and how to prevent them? Whether you might sometimes actually be safer solo diving? How to dive deep safely? Or How muck diving can possibly be any fun? Scuba Confidential has the answers to these questions and many more.

From one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today—and one of the very few women in her field—Into the Planet blends science, adventure, and memoir to bring readers face-to-face with the terror and beauty of earth’s remaining unknowns and the extremes of human capability. Jill Heinerth—the first person in history to dive deep into an Antarctic iceberg and leader of a team that discovered the ancient watery remains of Mayan civilizations—has descended farther into the inner depths of our planet than any other woman. She takes us into the harrowing split-second decisions that determine whether a diver makes it back to safety, the prejudices that prevent women from pursuing careers underwater, and her endeavor to recover a fallen friend’s body from the confines of a cave. But there’s beauty beyond the danger of diving, and while Heinerth swims beneath our feet in the lifeblood of our planet, she works with biologists discovering new species, physicists tracking climate change, and hydrogeologists examining our finite freshwater reserves. Written with hair-raising intensity, Into the Planet is the first book to deliver an intimate account of cave diving, transporting readers deep into inner space, where fear must be reconciled and a mission’s success balances between knowing one’s limits and pushing the envelope of human endurance.