Written for instructors, dive team captains, and surface teams, and underwater personnel alike, this book offers definitive information on procedures for safe operations, proper methods of training, and how to make appropriate purchasing decisions. Various techniques and types of equipment are discussed and assessed. Safety
is the constant theme throughout, with an emphasis on surface support,
accident prevention, contingency procedures, risk/benefit analysis, and
standard operating guidelines. This
book is a must-have for any department seeking routine outcomes to
underwater operations: that victims are saved, that evidence is
recovered intact, and that personnel return from the bottom safe and
sound.