Helen Plum Library

In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records. Prior to the 1990s, she was the most successful U.S. female Olympian and, in her prime, was widely considered to be the greatest female swimmer in the world. Heading into the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Babashoff was pictured on the cover of Sports Illustrated and followed closely by the media. Hopes were high that she would become...

There is no book on how to do competitive diving like this one on the market today that could help improve the performance of any coach, diver, or judge. Hobie Billingsley is regarded as the World's Greatest Diving Coach. His wealth of experience, knowledge, and teaching methods and cues will shorten the learning curve of any serious coach or diver.This is truly the science of competitive diving. Hobie's application of physics that are not well understood...

Scuba Professional is the natural successor to Simon Pridmore's first book, Scuba Confidential - An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver. Whereas Scuba Confidential focused on how to scuba dive, Scuba Professional looks at how diving is taught and how dive operations are conducted. Scuba Professional is an excellent source of out-of-the-box ideas and independent, objective advice for instructors and dive operators. It is also an indispensable...

Si aún no buceas y estás pensando en aprender, Bases de buceo - Iníciate correctamente en el buceo es tu libro. Te lleva desde el momento en que surge la idea de que quizás te gustaría probar el buceo hasta que ya has realizado unas 20 inmersiones. No se trata de un guía de aprendizaje estándar de buceo. Es muy diferente. La finalidad de Bases de buceo no es enseñarte a bucear. Eso lo hará un instructor de buceo. Pero este libro te facilitará...

A memoir of a young man's dream of space flight, Bending Atmospheres is a dazzling adventure recounting daring, heroic professionals learning to work at undersea pressures to 1,000 feet sea water and in the vacuum of orbital space traveling at 18,000 miles an hour. Readers are taken through the early development of deep diving TRI-MIX, Nitrox and Neon diving gas mixtures and decompression tables, to early diving in the treacherous North Sea and methods...

Scuba Exceptional may be the fifth in Simon Pridmore's Scuba series but it is the true follow up to the first book in the series Scuba Confidential. Scuba Exceptional reflects the same philosophy of safe diving through the acquisition of knowledge and skills. The themes are new, there are some wonderful and extremely useful new cautionary tales and the focus this time is more on issues that face experienced divers. For example, there is more technical...

What's it like to dive deep into the ocean without any air to help you breathe? Welcome to the world of freediving, an extremely dangerous activity that's growing in popularity...despite the risks! In Freediving, learn the history of this depth-defying pursuit and find out how freedivers gear up. From lung-squeezing pressure to record-breaking feats, discover why freediving is one of the world's most extreme sports.

At once inspiring, hilarious, and honest, the new book from Alexandra Heminsley chronicles her endeavor to tackle a whole new element, and the ensuing challenges and joys of open water swimming. "It's a meditative act," they said. But it was far from meditative for Alexandra Heminsley when yet another wave slammed into her face. It was survival. When she laced up her shoes in Running Like a Girl, all she had to do to become a runner was to get out...

Mark Spitz is arguably the most famous and successful Olympic athlete of all time because of his legendary performances at the 1972 Olympics, where he won seven gold medals while breaking seven world records. His amazing life story is told for the first time in the authorized biography Mark Spitz: The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion. This exclusive account follows Spitz's roller-coaster career: age-group prodigy, four-medal "flop" at the...

Plongée Confidentielle est un livre unique avec de précieux conseils d'expert, qui vous révèle les secrets des professionnels de plongée. Avec Plongée Confidentielle, vous apprenez à maîtriser les compétences et les techniques qui feront de vous un plongeur plus confiant, capable et sûr. Il présente les pour et les contre sur des questions controversées comme la plongée seul, la plongée profonde et les recycleurs. Il comprend une analyse...