A collection of technical topics in diving are discussed in a fourteen part series, with each topic self-contained and strategically developed in relationship to diving.

Topics include energy and matter interactions, thermodynamics, pressure and density, mechanics, gas kinetics, free and dissolved phase transfer, nucleation and cavitation, bubbles and surfactants, oxygen dose, gas mixtures, buoyancy, gauges and tanks, compressors and regulators, maladies and drugs, statistics, risks and probability, binominal distributions, waves, transports, currents, geology, oceanography, geophysics, solar energy and radiation.

A suite of application problems (with solutions) is provided for the fastidious reader.

(Hardcover: 460 pages)