BR 155 Diving Manual 1936: A Classic Diving Book: The Admiralty Diving Manual from 1936 which supersedes the 1916 version. Description of the ... of diving; etc (Historical Diving)

The Diving Manual BR155/1936 was first published by the British Admiralty in 1936 and superseded the 1916 manual. The chapters cover: Description of the apparatus, its care and maintenance with rules for testing the pump; The physics and physiology of diving; Dressing the diver, attendance and signals, The management of diving, duties of the officer in charge, rules for decompression in depth up to 200 feet; Hints for the diver and methods of doing work; Diving in deep water using the Davis Submerged Decompression Chamber; Compressed air illness and accidents to the diver; Pneumatic tools and underwater cutting apparatus; Breathing Apparatus Pattern 230 and Oxygen Breathing Apparatus; Orders and regulations concerning.It also includes a number of illustrative plates.The age of the original document dictates that this edition was derived from original scans which have been enhanced and manipulated where possible to create an accurate and readable copy of the original historic document. Read more