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[texdiveguy]

Just today after several MONTHS of pt reading I finished Tom Mount book- Technical Diver Encyclopedia 2nd edition.

Over all it was informative and I learned a few tid bits along the way.....but not up to par IMO for all the grand reviews I read/heard prior to obtaining the book....some of the material is now a bit dated in some aspects.

I was also at first confused by the writing style changes...till I went back to the introduction and discovered that it was actually a collection of authors that wrote some of the chapters.

Scale of 1-10 and 10 being the best.... it gets a 7.

 

[texdiveguy]

Anyone else read this text...?

 

[jtivat]

Yes it was required for some of my IANTD training there is lots of good info but lots of typo's and some out of date stuff. I learned to do thirds with there "Gas Matching tables 13 and 14 in the TDE" and just learned this is dated and that there is a better way.

 

[texdiveguy]

Yes it was required for some of my IANTD training there is lots of good info but lots of typo's and some out of date stuff. I learned to do thirds with there "Gas Matching tables 13 and 14 in the TDE" and just learned this is dated and that there is a better way.

Yep some of the data is not the latest info. for sure. I only payed half the cover cost for the new book....so it was worth that. Just yesterday got a new copy of Shipwreck Hunter by Gerald Volgenau.....excited to start reading this work on diving the wrecks of the Great Lakes.

 

[DA Aquamaster]

It was a required additional text in the TDI classes I took. I agree it was dated and in general it did not live up to all the positive comments I had heard about it.

I have read a few other books by Tom Mount and while there is some excellent information in them, they need to be read with an awareness of some of the more current practices in what is a rapidly evolving sport.

Over all though I have to say I have never seen a downside to reading everything you can get your hands on. Each book on technical diving regardless of when it was written has the potential to give you ideas or at least give you a history lesson on what used to be done - which gives you a good place to start researching why something is no longer done that way.