{"product_id":"scuba-confidential-an-insiders-guide-to-becoming-a-better-diver-9781491049242","title":"Scuba Confidential: An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver","description":"\u003cp\u003eScuba Confidential is a unique book packed full of valuable tips and expert advice, giving you unprecedented access to the secrets of dive professionals and technical divers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Scuba Confidential, you will learn how to master skills and techniques that will make you a more confident, capable and safe diver. It offers an informed, balanced view on some of scuba diving's most contentious issues like going solo, deep diving and rebreathers and includes a comprehensive analysis of how diving accidents happen and how to make sure you do not become a statistic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScuba Confidential also gives you valuable insights on a vast range of topics such as what it's like to do a cave diving course, how to make sure you buy the right equipment, what to consider when choosing an instructor, things even the pros get wrong and where to find the best diving in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is candid, no-nonsense practical advice from a professional who has been involved over the last three decades with virtually every aspect of the sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScuba Confidential answers a whole host of questions. For example, have you ever wondered\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow the professionals look so comfortable in the water?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhat it is like to dive under ice and inside shipwrecks?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhich training courses are worthwhile and which might just be a waste of time?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eIf you would make a good technical diver?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIf you should be considering a rebreather?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow you can reduce your air consumption?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhether you might actually be safer without a buddy sometimes? Or\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow muck diving can possibly be any fun?\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cp\u003eScuba Confidential has the answers to all these and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-7387933\"\u003eSimon Pridmore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781491049242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1491049243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SPO\"\u003eSports \u0026amp; Recreation\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SPO059000\"\u003eWater Sports | Scuba \u0026amp; Snorkeling\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimon Pridmore is the author of Scuba Confidential - An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver and Scuba Professional - Insights into Sport Diver Training \u0026amp; Operations. He has just published the third volume in the trilogy entitled Scuba Fundamental - Start Diving the Right Way. Diver Magazine editor Steve Weinmann calls Simon \"one of the most thoughtful and readable of divers\" while technical diving pioneer Kevin Gurr remarks that \"Simon's wealth of knowledge as a diving educator and experienced diver is evident\" in his books. Commenting on Scuba Professional, underwater explorer Jill Heinerth says \"there is quite simply nothing like this book. It offers an invaluable guide to divers who want to excel in the scuba world. This is the ultimate backstage pass into the business of scuba.\" \u2028And US Sport Diver chief editor David Espinosa wrote that \"Scuba Confidential is the closest thing there is to a scuba diving self-help book and a must-read for any diver, new or old.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42666370203885,"sku":"9781491049242","price":22.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_33c024a1-f3a6-4f22-a99a-063dd0e3cd94.jpg?v=1649433027","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/scuba-confidential-an-insiders-guide-to-becoming-a-better-diver-9781491049242","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}