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Scuba Exceptional
- Become the Best Diver You Can Be
- Narrated by: Simon Pridmore
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Scuba Exceptional may be the fifth in Simon Pridmore’s Scuba series, but it is the true follow-up to the first book in the series, Scuba Confidential.
Scuba Exceptional reflects the same philosophy of safe diving through the acquisition of knowledge and skills. The themes are new, there are some wonderful and extremely useful new cautionary tales, and the focus this time is more on issues that face experienced divers. For example, there is more technical diving content, but, as usual, Simon covers complex issues in his usual clear and easy-to-listen-to style. In many cases, the concerns of technical divers reflect those of scuba divers at every level. After all, as he says, technical diving is on the same spectrum as conventional sport diving: It is just a different frequency.
Scuba Exceptional also deals in detail with the psychological approach to scuba diving, broaching topics from new angles and borrowing techniques and procedures from other fields of human activity.
While most of Scuba Exceptional focuses on the diver, it also takes a look at the wider picture and highlights a number of areas where scuba diving professionals and the “industry” as a whole are letting divers down. As always, Simon is realistic in his assessments. He may shine a little light on the dark side of the scuba diving world, but he does this in order to illuminate bad practice and encourage change while offering solutions. He also provides insights on a wide range of topics.
For instance, do you want to know:
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- How to swim against a current without getting exhausted?
- How you can be out of air while you still have plenty to breathe?
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- How preconditioning applies to scuba diving?
- How long you should really wait between diving and flying?
- When to call DAN (and when not to call)?
- How corals could possibly be animals when they look like rocks?
- How to avoid being left behind in the ocean?
- What’s happening in the world of rebreather diving? or
- What the perimeter of ignorance is?
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- michael pearson
- 06-23-22
open water diver.
I enjoyed this book as I did the other two before it that I listened to. I have gone from just curious about Scuba diving to getting my open water certification while listening these books
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- EH in NoDak
- 11-20-21
Wonderful sequel to Scuba Confidential
This is an excellent read/listen for anyone who is looking to make their diving safer and more enjoyable. Definitely a great place to start for anyone considering further study into dive physiology or technical diving. His writing technique is very entertaining and focused on giving real life examples of the learning points. He wraps up every section with a quick one line recap of each of the safety points. These books have definitely made me a better diver and safer diver.
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- Timothy B Owings
- 04-10-20
being better with every dive
Simon writes with a wealth of knowledge on his subject and I have taken away something from everyone of his books that I believe will make me a better diver
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- jose silver
- 08-26-21
Brilliant
This is the most useful book I have ever read, gold dust! if you want to dive read them all. As an inexperienced diver these books are the equivalent of body armour. Both in terms of safety practices and in terms of dealing with the industry.
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- jordan alston
- 05-07-20
AMAZING!!
as a relative new comer to diving, I've listened to this and scuba confidential and Simon has really opened my eyes to see scuba diving differently. I believe I will now see thing that I would never of noticed before and be more on the lookout for things he advises to keep watch for. just gutted its over already 😓