Customer Reviews

An Introduction to Technical Diving

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The CD is woefully short on content. I figure that if you were to print it out on paper, it might add up to no more than 25 or so pages. There's very little the CD actually says outside of what you could learn if you were able to chat with a technical diver for 10 minutes. I went through the CD in all of 20 minutes, and started scrounging around if there were any sections I missed. There were none.

I can't help but shake the notion that the CD was just slapped together with no real fore-thought. There are a lot of nice photographs, but even then the captions are rarely informative. Don't expect a National Geographic, where it can be enough to just view the photos and read their captions.

The interface is visually engaging, but otherwise, the CD seems a bit empty to me. There are no in-depth discussions on the equipment used, and what makes them different from recreational type equipment, neither are there discussions on the special techniques or considerations for the type of diving involved.

Neither are there enough anecdotal information about actual technical dives done. There are no real stories, which would have made the disc completely worth it.

Perhaps the title is all too apt. It's what I would expect of the introduction chapter to a book about technical diving. I can imagine that a non-diver, or a diver who's really new into diving might find it very worthwhile.

Sadly, I find it not worth the value. More can be learned by simply surfing the 'Net for maybe an hour or so. Or better still get a real book on the topic.

If you're interested at getting into this type of diving, and expecting a searchable reference to serve as a means to jumpstart your knowledge base, this CD isn't it.

My two cents: skip this CD, and move on to something better.

Dive safe and often!

taj d.

divemaster

as a new cave diver i was delighted to find a CD ROM on technical diving. this was a nice exploration of the many facets of technical diving. well written and well produced, this CD is worth the time and the money. for what it's worth, as a fairly new "technical" diver, i have been overwhelmed by the political nature of the sport...and i was suprised by the negative reviews posted for such a great product. you be the judge

Having met nearly all of the people involved in making this CD, I must say that it is extremely disappointing--they have more interesting stories posted for free on the net.

Most of what is contained in this CD can be found in greater detail in product manuals--in other words, stale. Furthermore, there is information I would classify as misleading and even dangerous in some cases. This CD is an impressive example of how to use Shockwave Macromedia, but lacking in substance

The products recently available from gue.com, such as "Getting Clear on the Basics: The Fundamentals of Technical Diving" actually cost less and are far more appropriate for those looking into technical diving.

This author clearly has a limited view of technical diving techniques and safety. It's difficult to get much at all from this extremely short 'book', but what material is there is lacking discussion of any accepted modern techniques employed by the technical diver. Those active in the sport have learned to 'do it right' and opt to stay away from most of what is presented by this author.

I'm waiting for the other's CD's about diving. This one is just great, it was that I was loking for.