141 DIVES in the protected waters of Washington and British Columbia. by Betty Pratt-Johnson.
Before diving into these 141 dives, author teaches about the special aspects of diving in this region, including water temperature, seasons, visibility, kelp, currents and rip tides, boats and log booms, broken fishing line, surge and surf, marine life. Also tells of underwater photography, spearfishing and collecting of shells and bottles, diving at wrecks and diving at night. The many detailed guides to dives report local tides, access, bottom nature, depths, hazards, and there is an identification guide to know the creatures seen. Photographs, maps, charts, 398 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-931397-12-X. 1977. Order #: PASE4491 paper $14.95.

 

 

ANNAPOLIS SAILING SCHOOL PRIMER. by Annapolis Sailing School.
Reference and companion piece for the beginner's sailing programs presented by the Annapolis Sailing School. Basic information on sailboat details, sailing terms, steering, finding wind direction, why a boat sails, leeway, heeling, sail trim, rigging, cleating, lines, battens, points of sail, maneuvers, rules of the road, emergencies including thunderstorms and running aground and crew overboard, plotting and reading charts. Drawings, 64 pages.
ISBN: None. No date. Order #: MISC2616 paper $8.95.

 

 

THE BASIC SWIMMING GUIDE. Groscost.
The book develops, stage-by-stage the process of beginner swimming and hits most of the problems encountered along the way. Drawings, 101 pages.
ISBN: 0-89037-105-9. 1975. Order #: MACM3208 paper$3.95.

 

 

 

THE BIG BOOK OF SAILING. Grube.
Essays on sailors, ships, and sea--sailing origins, racing & records, solo sailing, exploring. Color photos, 309 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-8120-5324-9. Order #: BARR1883 cloth$49.95.

 

 

 

BISCAYNE: the story behind the scenery. Landrum.
Coral reefs and marine gardens of this offshore Florida national park, including sea turtles, manatees, reef diving. 48 pages, color illustrations, map.
ISBN: 0-88714-048-33. First printing 1990. Order #: KCPU4718 paper$8.95.

 

 

COLGATE'S BASIC SAILING THEORY. by Steve Colgate.
Contents include Types of Sailboats, Dimensions and Parts of Sailboats, Rigging and Sails, Sails and Wind, Stability, Hulls, Rights of Way, Heavy Weather, Anchoring and Docking, Navigation, Spinnaker. Appendixes, photographs and drawings, 124 pages.
ISBN: 0-671-7622-8. 1992. Order #: SISC2634 paper$11.00.

 

 

THE COMPETENCE FACTOR: skills that make the difference in outdoor sports. by Bradford Angier.
Coping with challenges of backcountry hazards, rescues-coping with hypothermia, treatment of frostbite, dressing for cold weather, safeguarding your vision, escaping from quicksand and quagmire, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, treating snake-bite, preventing altitude sickness, purifying water. All are skills pertinent to cross-count and downhill skiing, cold weather camping and backpacking, fishing, canoing, swimming, rock climbing, biking, hunting and shooting, and archery. Drawings, 180 pages.
ISBN: 0-8117-2189-2. 1983. Order #: STAC1405 paper$7.95.

 

 

EMERGENCY SURVIVAL. by Charles A. Lehman.
Explores a myriad of situations where one's life may be in jeopardy--light plane crash, snowstorm stops traffic on interstate, vehicle gets stuck offroad, electricity goes out in mountain ski lodge, snowmobile dies far up the trail, lost in a swamp, fall off boat into cold water--and recounts real episodes of how some coped successfully and some did not. What to expect from SAR--search and rescue--and how to help get it (radio, phone, smoke, signals, signs) and assist when you have. Lists things to carry even though you would not normally need them but would in case of emergency. The thing you do not want to use on your trip is your first aid kit--unless. You may not be the one to need help, but need to know how to help others in your party or whom you encounter. Drawings, 153 pages.
 ISBN: 0-935810-03-X. 1979. Order #: MISC2076 paper$7.95.

EXPLORING UNDERWATER: the Sierra Club guide to SCUBA and snorkeling. by John L. Culliney & Edward S. Crockett.
Includes diving physiology, learning, diving from shore or boat, sub-surface navigating, kelp forest diving. Provides essentials of underwater technique, safety and medicine, progression from pool to open water, navigating below the surface. How to explore kelp forests, inspect wrecks and caves, move around coral reefs and walls. Includes photography. Reference tables, drawings and diagrams. Color photographs, 340 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-87156-270-7. 1980. Order #: RAHO1188 paper$15.00.

 

 

EXPLORING UNDERWATER: the Sierra Club guide to SCUBA and snorkeling. by John L. Culliney & Edward S. Crockett.
Includes diving physiology, learning, diving from shore or boat, sub-surface navigating, kelp forest diving. Provides essentials of underwater technique, safety and medicine, progression from pool to open water, navigating below the surface. How to explore kelp forests, inspect wrecks and caves, move around coral reefs and walls. Includes photography. Reference tables, drawings and diagrams. Color photographs, 340 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-87156-270-7. 1980. Damaged copy, but intact. Order #: RAHO2628 paper$7.50.

 

FIRST AID: quick information for mountaineering and backcountry use. by Ed Peters.
Goes beyond the "everyday" mishaps that can occur but which can almost be predicted to happen if one spends much time in outdoor activities. Especially if such a mishap occurs while a long distance from help beyond one's own party then help must come from within the group. Suggests response to and treatment of CPR, resuscitation, hemorrhage, evacuation, fracture, frostbite, head and spine injuries, heat exhaustion, hypothermia, joint and muscle injuries, pulmonary edema, shock, snowblindness, sunburn. Contents of the mountaineering first aid kit are listed. This is a good pamphlet to read and understand before you need to. Drawings, accident report form, 34 little pages.
Inventory =3. ISBN: 0-89886-070-9. 1982. Order #: MOUN2664 paper$2.95.

 

 

HAND, REEF, AND STEER: a practical handbook on sailing. by Richard Henderson.
Starts with fundamentals of sailing, then proceeds to essentials of competitive sailing as sail trim and helmsmanship and the handling of relatively large boats. Chapters include First Boat; The Hull; The Rig; Sails; Theory of Sailing; Sailing on the Wind; Sailing off the Wind; Docks, Mooring and Anchors; Basic Marlinspike Seamanship; Weather and Heavy Weather Sailing; Rules of the /Road; Safety and Emergencies. Includes 97 illustrations and diagrams that explain sailboat parts, maneuvering, wind effects, navigation. 95 large-format pages, index.
ISBN: 0-8092-7527-9. 1978. Order #: CONT2597 paper $7.95.

 

 

INVITATION TO SAILING. by Alan Brown.
Includes exercises on-the-water drills and a special section on how to organize and teach a sailing class. Tells what makes a sailboat go, how to tack and jibe, how to set sail, drop the anchor, make a proper and graceful entry to a crowded cock and what the name is for everything in, on, and around a small boat. How to sail in light winds, in heavy weather, to sail a sloop, to handle a spinnaker, to execute every sailing maneuver with assurance skill. Racing is covered from basics to fine points to how to outsmart the field. 139 drawings and diarmgrams224 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-671-21134-X. 1968. Order #: SISC2630 paper $9.95.

 

KAYAKING THE VERMILLION SEA: eight hundred miles down the Baja. by Jonathan Waterman.
A two-month sea kayak journey and its adventures in Baja California, Mexico. Recounts history of region and encounters with tides, storms, wildlife and thoughts about over-fishing of the sea, people encountered, and local customs such as Day of the Dead. Photos, 223 pages.
ISBN: 0-684-80242-2. 1995. Order #: SISC0104 cloth$22.00.

 

 

KNOW YOUR UNDERWATER EXPLORATION. by Neil Ardley.
Aspects of the marine world, like space a last frontier for humans to explore; history of exploration and more recent methods with SCUBA and submersible exploration vehicles. Investigating shipwrecks on the seafloor, searching for treasure, legends of the sea, and a projection to the future of the oceans. Color photos and drawings, 48 pages, index.
ISBN: 0-528-87019-X. 1977. Order #: RAMC3691 paper $3.95.

 

 

LEARN TO SAIL. by Theodore A. Jones.
Theory, getting ready, equipment, and sailing--tacking, fog, capsizing, steering, heeling, ropes and hitches, sails, keels, mooring. Sailing upwind, downwind, crosswind, more. Get started on a new sport. Drawings, glossary, 72 pages.
Check stock. ISBN: 0-528-81026-X. 1977. Order #: RAMC1179 paper $4.95.

 

 

THE NEW SCIENCE OF SKIN AND SCUBA DIVING. by the Council for National Cooperation in Aquatics.
Covers basic equipment, compressed air, skills, marine life and environment, medical facts, first aid, physical and proficiency levels needed. Chapters include snorkeling, skin diving, basic scuba diving, planning a dive. Additional coverage is given scuba first-aid/life saving/rescue, use of depth gauge, compass, knife, regulators, decompression table, buoyancy control devices, how the lungs work, sharks and eels and other animal hazards, diver flags and lookouts. Drawings and photographs, 272 pages.
ISBN: 0-8329-0399-X. 1985. Order #: WINC2843 paper $10.95.

 

 

OUR LAST CHANCE: sixty-six deadly days adrift. by Bill and Simone Butler.
A trip that started in Miami was set to go around the world in a sailboat with two people. They made it through the Caribbean Sea and past the Panama Canal far out into the Pacific Ocean when a pod of pilot whales batters their boat, which sinks in two miles of water. The trip then turns into a drift at sea of 1150 miles for two people in a 6-foot plastic liferaft. The story is a fight against storm, hunger, predator, and frustration and eventual rescue when they were finally approaching the western shore of  Costa Rica. Maps show the trip, 323 pages.
ISBN: 0-9632519-2-9. 1991. Order #: EXMA6023 paper $14.50.

 

SAILING FUNDAMENTALS: the official learn-to-sail manual of the American Sailing Association. by Gary Jobson.
Offers the fastest, easiest, most systematic way to learn basic sailing and basic coastal cruising. Covers every aspect of beginning sailing--from hoisting sail to docking and anchoring--and specifically prepare the learner to qualify for sailing certification according to international standards Illustrated step-by-step in two co;ors with 150 line drawings and photographs. Glossary, 206 large-format pages, index.
ISBN: 0-671-60598-4. 1987. Order #: SISC2628 paper $16.00.

 

SCUBA DIVING IN SAFETY AND HEALTH. by Christopher W. Dueker, M.D.
Covers proper technique and gear, underwater environment and its effects on humans. Squeezing effect of depth of water on lungs, decompression sickness--prevention and treatment, carbon monoxide, respiration, nitrogen narcosis, rescue and first aid. Drawings and charts, 224 pages, index. Published by Diving Safety Digest.
ISBN: 0-9614638-0-5. 1985. Order #: ZZPM5841 paper $11.95.

 

 

SCUBA DIVING SAFETY. by C. W. Dueker.
Although diving has rewards it also has hazards. Here are ways to avoid or minimize risk and ways to cope if things go wrong. This book explores safe diving techniques , first aid, emergency ascents, rescue and resuscitation, How to identify and deal with barortrauma, decompression sickness, narcosis, panic, and squeeze is also discussed. Examines ways to deal with rough seas and extremes of depth or water temperature. Photographs, charts, 134 pages.
ISBN: 0-89037-135-0. 1978. Order #: MACM3523 paper $6.95.

 

 

SCUBA SAFE AND SIMPLE. by John Reseck, Jr.
Begin exploring the endlessly fascinating world beneath the sea. Introduction to this activity is written to conform to the teaching requirements of the National Association of Underwater Instructors and covers all the requisites for safe, confident, and enjoyable diving, including equipment, basic diving skills and their natural laws, medical problems, environment of surf and rocks and currents and visibility, hazards like sharks and stingrays, undersea photography, exploring caves and wrecks and night diving. Eight appendices give key data and tables including diving safety rules and first aid.
ISBN: 0-13-796830-2. 1990. Order #: SISC2637 paper$12.95.

 

 

SURFING HAWAII: Oahu, Kauai Maui, Hawaii. by Bank Wright.
Tells best seasons, winds, swell directions, currents, and tides for Oahu, Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii Islands. Describes individual surfing areas, wave sizes and characters, best times and seasons, lefts and rights. Hazards to watch for: urchins, sharks, coral, Portuguese man-o-war, rip currents. Camping opportunities. Photographs, maps, 96 pages, index.
ISBN: None. 1971. Order #: MOSE0850 paper$4.95.

 

 

UNDERWATER SWIMMING. by John Emmett and Gordon Ridley.
Introduction to techniques from snorkeling through SCUBA diving; equipment, physiological effects of diving, hazards and safety, activities to consider. A progression takes the beginner from basic snorkel equipment to correct use of equipment to more advanced skills of he aqualung user. How to plan open water dives and estimate dive duration by calculating air requirements. Deals with physiological aspects of diving and safeguarding against decompression sickness. Photos, 120 pages.
ISBN: 0-7158-0569-X. 1978. Order #: STER3242 cloth$12.95.

 

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