--- product_id: 768415 title: "Diver Down: Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them" price: "€ 37.25" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/768415-diver-down-real-world-scuba-accidents-and-how-to-avoid store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Diver Down: Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them **Price:** € 37.25 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Diver Down: Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them - **How much does it cost?** € 37.25 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/768415-diver-down-real-world-scuba-accidents-and-how-to-avoid) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 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 Review: SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING - 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 Review: It's like a horror story of Murphy's Laws in action. - PRO: The stories and lessons learned are very good motivators to do things right and not to take unnecessary risks. After reading this book I am no longer going to dive as I am too scared that one of a million things will go wrong at the worst possible time. Diver down reads more like a horror movie of Murphy’s Laws. Great book and worth the money and time spent. I plan to share it with my dive buddy so he too can stop diving and risking his life for the amazing sights of the sea. CON: An otherwise informative and interesting book was totally ruined by the author’s attempts to be politically and social correct. His continuous use of the pronoun “her” instead of “his” or even better “their” is annoying and detracts heavily from the readability of the book. Not all divers are female. Why not say something like: “A diver should route the strap over their right shoulder.” Instead of using “her shoulder” or “his shoulder”, if you want to be socially correct. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #249,293 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #88 in Scuba Diving #462 in Ecology (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 720 Reviews | ## Images ![Diver Down: Real-World SCUBA Accidents and How to Avoid Them - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61o127ar5ML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING *by A***S on June 5, 2006* 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 ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's like a horror story of Murphy's Laws in action. *by B***B on June 29, 2019* PRO: The stories and lessons learned are very good motivators to do things right and not to take unnecessary risks. After reading this book I am no longer going to dive as I am too scared that one of a million things will go wrong at the worst possible time. Diver down reads more like a horror movie of Murphy’s Laws. Great book and worth the money and time spent. I plan to share it with my dive buddy so he too can stop diving and risking his life for the amazing sights of the sea. CON: An otherwise informative and interesting book was totally ruined by the author’s attempts to be politically and social correct. His continuous use of the pronoun “her” instead of “his” or even better “their” is annoying and detracts heavily from the readability of the book. Not all divers are female. Why not say something like: “A diver should route the strap over their right shoulder.” Instead of using “her shoulder” or “his shoulder”, if you want to be socially correct. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting and instructive *by E***D on September 24, 2013* Solid selection of stories describing a range of dive fails. At times exciting, at times frightening, and always instructive. Good news for divers is that the accidents were preventable with preparation, staying within limits, and leaving ego on the boat. For the novice diver, the book is a great survey of advancing techniques from recreational open water, to a broad array of technical dives including deep water, cave, commercial and public safety diving. Rather than creating fear of diving, the author leaves the reader confident that through proper incremental training and experience, a vast world of diving opportunities is imminently accessible. Why not 5 stars? 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