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Publications and Videos Order#: Soft Cover • 73Pages • 1999 Revised January • Chaptersinclude:Introduction • G.Y Dive Rescue International Publications and Videos Publications and Videos Publications and Videos #6012 #6725 #6726 Diving In High-Risk Med Dive Manual Dry Suit Diving Environments Kathy Work and Jon Kushner Steve Barsky Steve Barsky • Chapters include: Medical • Chapters include: Why Dive Dry • Chapters include: Diving in Contam- Evaluations, Decompression Suits?, Types of Dry Suits, Dry inated Water, Contaminants and Physiology, Decompression Suit Valves, Underwear Selection, Hazards, Scuba Systems for Sickness, Pulmonary Barotrauma, Dry Suit Accessories, Dry Suit Diving in Contaminated Water, Publications and Videos Rapid Field Neurological Exam, Techniques, Dry Suit Maintenance Surface-Supplied Diving Equipment, Field Treatment of Compressed and Dry Suit Repairs Dive Planning, Diving Techniques, Gas Injuries, Oxygen Administration, • Copyright 1990 Decontamination and Equipment Post Diving Considerations and Maintenance • 92 pages Advanced Treatment Principles • 3rd Edition – Copyright 1999 • Soft cover • Copyright 1991 • 5 appendices – 197 pages Order#: 6725 • 126 pages – spiral bound • Soft cover Order#: 6012 Order#: 6726 Publications and Videos Publications and Videos Publications and Videos #6713 #6027 #6708 DAN – Dive and e: [email protected] Travel Medical Guide Inspecting Cylinders Swiftwater Rescue | G.Y. Mebane, M.D. William H. High Slim Ray • Chapters include: Introduction • Chapters include: Evolution and • Chapters include: Introduction to DAN, Immediate Care for Design of Cylinders, Cylinder to Hydrology, Equipment, Rigging Suspected Diving Casualty, Corrosion, Cylinder Codes, for River Rescues, Shore-Based Oxygen First Aid, Recognizing What to Look For, Inspection Rescue, Boat-Based Rescue, Decompression Illness and Equipment, Inspect for Cracks In-Water Rescue, Helicopters Diving-Related Injuries, Lung and Nitrox Cylinders and Special Situations Overpressure Problems, Drowning • 3rd Edition – Copyright 1997 • Copyright 1997 and Near-Drowning, Thermal • Soft cover • Soft cover Injuries, Ear Disorders, Motion Sickness, Prevention and Treatment • 108 pages • 243 pages www.diverescueintl.com www.diverescueintl.com of Travel-Related Illness, Marine | Order#: 6027 Order#: 6708 Animal Injury and CPR Chart • Revised January 1999 • 73 pages Swept Away… A Guide to Water Rescue Operations • Soft cover • In emergency situations, swift-flowing water can be a deadly adversary for both victims and rescuers alike. Now, for the first time, there is a Order#: 6713 comprehensive training film that clearly explains through demonstrations 800.248.3483 the safest and most effective water rescue techniques. • VHS video tape (30 minutes long) – Copyright 1990 Order#: 6724 (not shown) 56 Dive Rescue International Publications and Videos Publications and Videos Publications and Videos Publications and Videos #8593 #8594 #6723 Medical Examination Underwater Ear High Angle Rescue of Sport Scuba Divers and Nose Care Techniques Alfred A. Bove, M.D., Ph.D. Noel Roydhouse Tom Vines and Steve Hudson • Chapters include: • Chapters include: The Underwater • Chapters include: The High Angle Otorhinolaryngology and Diver, The Eustachian Tube, The Environment, Personal Equipment, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry Middle Ear, The Outer Ear, The Rope, Care and Use of Rope, Basic and Neurology, Common Inner Ear, The Nose and Sinuses, High Angle Hardware, Knots, Medical and Surgical Mouth and Throat, The Jaws and Anchoring, Belaying, Rappelling, Considerations Headaches, How to Clear the Ears, Basic Ascending Techniques, The • 3 appendices Vertigo-Dizziness and Nausea, The Rope Rescuer, One-Person Rescue Jaw and Underwater Swimming Techniques, Slope Evacuation, High • Physician’s guide to performing and The Scuba Diving Doctor Angle Lowering, Hauling Systems, diving medical exams • Case histories Highlines and Helicopter Operations • 3rd Edition – Copyright 1998 • 115 pages • 284 pages • 74 pages • Soft cover • 2nd Edition – Copyright 1999 • Soft cover • 2nd Edition – Copyright 1993 • Soft cover Order#: 8593 800.248.3483 Order#: 8594 Order#: 6723 Publications and Videos Publications and Videos Publications and Videos | www.diverescueintl.com www.diverescueintl.com #6010 #6721 # 6020 The Underwater Investigator On Rope The Night Before The Dive | Robert Teather Allen Padgett and Bruce Smith Robert Teather e: [email protected] • Chapters include: Body Recovery, • Chapters include: About Rope, • 3-part audio cassette addresses Scuba Fatality Investigation, Rope, Knots, Rigging, Rappelling, common pre- and post-dive Air Embolism, Aircraft Recovery, Prusiking, Long Drops, Domes and stress emotions Automobile Recovery, Firearms Walls, Belaying, Vertical Potpourri, • A must for all public Recovery, Underwater Sleds, Teaching and Practicing Rope Work safety dive teams Use of Helicopters, Grappling • 2nd Edition – Copyright 1996 • Copyright 1986 Hooks, Searching and Dive • 382 pages Site Procedures Order#: 6020 • Hard cover • Copyright 1983 • 111 pages Order#: 6721 • Soft cover Order#: 6010 57 Dive Rescue International Publications and Videos Publications and Videos Publications and Videos #6019 #6706 #6022 Encyclopedia of The Next of Kin – Your Underwater Investigations Merlin Most Valuable Resource Robert Teather Robert Teather Robert Teather Publications and Videos • Chapters include: Drowning-What • Insightful story about the life • A two (2) tape audio cassette Really Happens, Body Recovery, and challenges of a public introduces the public safety water Investigation of Death, Recovering safety diving police officer rescue team to the techniques of Skeletal Remains, Body Recovery • Fiction working with grieving families and Reporting Procedures, Scuba witnesses. A valuable resource for • Copyright 1988 Fatality-Accident Investigation, all teams • 116 pages Firearms Recovery, Aircraft • Copyright 1987 Recovery, Vehicle Recovery, Court • Soft cover Testimony, The Collection and Order#: 6022 Preservation of Physical Evidence Order#: 6706 and Types of Evidence • Glossary of terms Publications and Videos Publications and Videos • Copyright 1994 • 186 pages • Soft cover, spiral bound Order#: 6019 Underwater Investigations (Correspondence Course) • Includes: #6728 #6015 Order# 6019 – Encyclopedia of Underwater Investigations, e: [email protected] Order# 6019A – Correspondence Scuba Equipment Care | Course Workbook and SRT Diver and Maintenance Order# 6019B – Correspondence Course Validation Mark V. Lonsdale Michael B. Farley and Charles Royer • Upon successful completion • Chapters include: Role of the • Chapters include: Mask, Snorkel (includes returning exam for SRT Diver, The Diving Team, and Fins, Wetsuits, Drysuits, Tanks, grading) each student is awarded Team Training, SRT Diving and Tank Valves, Backpack Assemblies, a certificate and wallet card Equipment, Surface-Supplied Scuba Regulators, BCs and Inflators, Diving, Haz-Mat Diving, Support Underwater Gauges, Dive Computers, Order#: 6019C – Complete Diving, Equipment Maintenance, Spear Guns, Dive Knives, Weight Course (Text, Workbook Photography and Video, Deployment Systems, Dive Lights and Underwater and Validation) www.diverescueintl.com www.diverescueintl.com By Land, Sea, Air and Fixed Wing, Photography Order#: 6019A – Correspondence | Course (Workbook only) Aquatic Rescue, Dive Rescue • Ninth printing – May 2001 Procedures, Underwater Search Order#: 6019B – Correspondence • 176 pages Course Validation Methods, Penetration Dives, Investigation and Recovery • Soft cover • Revised and Copyright 1999 Order#: 6015 • 335 Pages • Soft Cover 800.248.3483 Order#: 6728 58 Dive Rescue International Publications and Videos Publications and Videos Publications and Videos Publications and Videos # #6714 #6707 6013 NOAA Diving Manual River Rescue Diver Reference Dictionary US Department of Commerce Les Bechdel and Slim Ray • Over 3,000 diving terms • The Definitive Diving Reference Text • Chapters include: River Sense, and definitions Chapters include: History of Diving, Equipment, Self-Rescue, Rescue • Copyright 1986 Physics of Diving, Diving Physiology, on the Run, Basic Rope Rescue, • 131 pages Compressed Air and Support Wading, Swimming and Contact • Hard cover Equipment, Diver and Diving Rescues, Tethered Boat Rescues, Equipment, Hyperbaric Chambers Entrapments and Extrications, Order#: 6013 and Support Equipment, Diver and Boat Recovery, Vertical Rescue, Support Personnel Training, Working Organization for Rescue and Dive Procedures, Procedures for Patient Care Scientific Dives, Diving Under Special • 6 appendices Publications and Videos Conditions, Polluted-Water Diving, • 3rd Edition – Copyright 1997 Hazardous Aquatic Animals, Women and Diving, Air Diving and Decom- • 293 pages pression, Mixed Gas and Oxygen • Soft cover Diving, Saturation Diving, Under- water Support Platforms, Emergency Order#: 6707 Medical Care, Emergency Procedures, #6718 and Diagnosis and Treatment of 800.248.3483 Diving Casualties Publications and Videos • Over 200 pages US Navy Diver’s Handbook • 4th Edition – Copyright 2001 • Pocket size • Available in soft cover, • Chapters include: Air Decompression, hard cover or CD-ROM Diving Medicine, Recompression Therapy, Neurological Examinations | Order#: 6714 – Soft cover Order#: 6714A – Hard cover and First Aid www.diverescueintl.com Order#: 6714CD – (CD Version) • Currently in revision • 290 pages Publications and Videos • Hard cover, spiral bound Order#: 6718 #6915/16 Publications and Videos Divator MK II and EXO-26 # 8595/A Manuals and Videos | Manual
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