Prepare for each underwater adventure and its challenges. Diving Science will help you anticipate, recognize, and respond to the physical, physiological, and psychological stresses encountered in sport diving.

Written by two experts in diving physiology and medicine, this comprehensive resource will help you manage each stage of a dive more safely and successfully. Whether you’re on the surface or bottom, in the descent or ascent, you’ll know exactly what to do and when to do it. With information on everything from on-gassing and off-gassing to first response interventions for medical problems, Diving Science is as essential as a wetsuit for your next dive.

Use the book’s diving-specific fitness specifications to learn how to make diving safe and enjoyable at any age. And apply the detailed equipment recommendations to prepare properly for each dive. Diving Science provides a wealth of information useful to all divers. Tap into this treasure chest before each dive to ensure it is your best and safest yet.

Michael B. Strauss, MD, is medical director of the department of hyperbaric medicine at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, California. An experienced diver, he is familiar with almost all types of equipment, from snorkel to closed-circuit scuba to tethered diving out of a personal transfer capsule.

In more than 30 articles on diving medicine, Dr. Strauss has formulated an explanation for pain-only bends, delineated the outcomes of decompression, and detailed the causes of blackout (no-panic syndromes).

Dr. Strauss is a member of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and is a tertiary provider for referrals of medical problems of diving for the Divers Alert Network. He is a qualified U.S. undersea medical officer and was a U.S. Navy SEAL team medical officer. He is board certified in undersea and hyperbaric medicine. Igor V. Aksenov, MD, PhD, works in the department of medicine at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Dr. Aksenov has a diverse background in medicine, including internal, critical care, clinical toxicology and pharmacology, and hyperbaric and diving.