Scuba Equipment Care and Maintenance [Paperback]

Michael B. Farley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1996

Scuba Equipment Care and Maintenance covers user maintenance on all your scuba and snorkeling gear. This is the third edition of our most popular book. Since it was first published in 1980 it's been reprinted 7 times and completely revised twice to keep up with changes in equipment and techniques. It's used by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) as the text in their Equipment Specialist course.

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About the Author

MICHAEL FARLEY is a NAUI certified diver of 28 years. He is a graduate of Northrop Institute of Technology, with a specialized degree in aircraft maintenance engineering. He has performed diving-related work for the U.S. Navy, and has field tested diving equipment for manufacturers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Marcor Pub; 2nd edition (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932248012
• ISBN-13: 978-0932248015
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,548,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a disappointment. Save your money., June 7, 2001

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This review is from: Scuba Equipment Care and Maintenance (Paperback)

When you bought your equipment at the dive shop, did you ask the sales clerk how to take care of it? Well, unless you completely forgot the answer, this book adds nothing new. Same old, same old, common sense gear care, things like rinse it off after a salt water soak, don't leave rubber in the sunlight. If you were expecting any really interesting information, like the gauges needed to properly set the breathing pressure on a regulator, forget it, all you get is the tired old "better left to factory trained representatives" rhetoric. This guy assumes that the average diver has never seen a screwdriver or wrench in their life and cannot possibly adjust or repair anything more challenging than a flashlight. Unless you have two left thumbs and zero mechanical aptitude, you don't need this book.

9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scuba Equipment Care and Maintainence, June 15, 2000

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Ren de Haas (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scuba Equipment Care and Maintenance (Paperback)

I found this book written by Michael Farley to be quite thourogh in it's approach to looking after your scuba gear. In the most part it is very comprehensive although common sense is a big issue in the majority. I did find it lacked very slightly in the repairs area. However if this is a book for a reletively new diver, then I would highly reccomend it. It is always a good idea to not get into any bad habbits as far as gear maintainence go's, once you have it is very hard to get out of them!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat outdated., November 19, 2006

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Watergirl "kittylove" (WV) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scuba Equipment Care and Maintenance (Paperback)

I felt a lot of this book was a waste of my time. I skipped over a lot because it doesn't really apply any more. I bought it through a dive shop for an equipment specialist course sight unseen, without knowing the title. I thought it was a PADI manual and paid 21.99 for it. They mailed it to me, and when I looked it up on Amazon I found copies for a penny! Almost cried! Wouldn't be so bad if it were a fresh, current manual. I kept waiting for Lloyd Bridges to pop up. I did learn a couple of things I had never been told during my training.