A potpourri 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 span many disciplines and focus on a number of technical arenas. Targeted audience is the commercial diver, instructor, hyperbaric technician, underwater researcher, and technical diver looking for greater detail, and especially the doctor, physiologist, physicist, chemist, mathematician, engineer or biologist by training. 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 statistics, risk and probability, binomial distributions, waves, transport, currents, geology, oceanography, geophysics, solar energy and radiation. Size: 23cm x 16cm, pages: 460, photos: black and white illustrations