Human Performance and Scuba Diving, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Easy Diver, Lou Fead. In my opinion, no one should be allowed to be a scuba instructor if they have not read both. And every scuba diver should also read both.
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"Easy Diver" By Lou Fead
There are two printings of this book
1977 -Deep star publication, Crestline Ca. 176 pages Soft cover,(red cover) ISBN-0-918888-02-6
1983-Waterloo Enterprises, Fort Lauderdale Fla,176 pages Soft cover,(blue cover) ISBN-0-9610482-0-4
Which one do you have? Or is there a third edition ?
This was and is a very good book for all levels of the sport. Lou put a lot into this book and it shows.
According to SoCal rumor Lou, who lived in San Diego met a lovely lady diver who lived on the Hudson River in New York, Married, settled down, gave up recreational diving and never wrote another book..I often wonder if Lou is still with us?
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"Human Performance and Scuba Diving, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, proceeding from the Symposium on Underwater physiology," April 10-11 1970, 170 pages paper back.---That was 43 years ago! I suspect not too many on this board were diving then, possibly not even born.
What a fantastic event! What a great word for word published proceedings. It was the best diving symposium I ever attended and I suspect will never be duplicated. The presenters and the attendees were the pioneers and movers and shakers of diving. So many are now diving on that great reef in the sky. Only a few remain and we are rapidly dwindling in numbers.
Did you attend? I was in middle of my doctorate, but took time off to attend-, I am listed on page 167..
SDM
Very heady times in diving...Thank you for the post and reminding me of books, events and dear friends of long ago.
SDM