Diving physiology texts or other reliable sources of information?

[anth]

I'm beginning work on a project/presentation on diving physiology for my freshman bio class, and seem to recall a thread(threads?) regarding some reccommended books on the topic. I have had some success in the school library, but I always try to go deeper . Oh, I have of course searched the archives, I wouldn't intentionally waste anyone's tome....

Thanks very much in advance, just looking for a little direction from some of the very knowledgable individuals on this board, DSAO,

Anthony

 

[Bob3]

I'd recommend the NOAA Diving Manual for starters, but you may have trouble getting your hands on a copy without plunking down $80 - $90.
The USN Diving Manual is a good spot, and its available for free download by chapters even, from: http://diverlink.com/library/usn/

Might as well download at least chapters 2 & 3.
You'll need at least version 4.05 or higher of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

 

[Dr Deco]

Dear anthony:

Books

Diving Physiology in Plain English by Jolie Bookspan

Scuba Diving Explained: Questions and Answers on Physiology and Medical Aspects of Scuba Diving by Lawrence Martin

Bove and Davis' Diving Medicine by Alfred A., Md. Bove (Editor), Jefferson C. Davis (Contributor)

Virtually every readable book will contain only material on the classical Haldane hypothesis of the “metastable limit.” The books by Wienke describe the hypothesis connected with “bubble models,” but they are not easy, introductory texts.

Much material on the biophysics of the “phase models” is available from this FORUM and from the web site http://www.doctordeco.com/


Dr Deco :doctor:

 

[JamesK]

Bob3 once bubbled...
The USN Diving Manual is a good spot, and its available for free download by chapters even, from: http://diverlink.com/library/usn/

Might as well download at least chapters 2 & 3.
You'll need at least version 4.05 or higher of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Just make sure you have a LOT of time if you want to print it out! LOL. I printed it out and even with a laser printer, it took about an hour.

 

[voidware]

I did a paper on it for calculus class, so I used some of baker's papers for the actual algorithm ( http://www.gap-software.com/decotheory.html ), but you probably won't want to get that technical. Other than that, the Navy manual and the NOAA manual are excellent sources. The USN manual is on the internet and you might get lucky and find the NOAA in your school's library.

brandon

 

[anth]

Dr. Deco, Diving Physiology in Plain English and Scuba Diving Explained are the two books I sent out for through interlibrary loan before even posting, thanks for reinforcement I'll be certain to check out Bove and Davis' Diving Medicine.... Dr. Wienke's book looks a little over the top for this paper... diff eq is something fun to do on the weekend while not diving That's one of the reasons I really don't hate calc - where am I going to use this stuff they all ask?? Decompression models....

I have in fact browsed some of the GAP software site Brandon, it's nice to have an idea of what's going on with the numbers behind all of this, great idea to use the algorithm itself as a topic.... i do believe i have to do a paper in calc later on... hmmm....

Thanks everyone for contributing, DSAO

Anthony