Author: Dr Richard a Slater
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984910526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Treasure hunts, world records, environmental mishaps, scientific studies and deep-sea exploration are just some of the thrilling topics that diver, scientist and author Dr. Richard Slater discusses in his autobiographical book "Views from the Conning Tower." By sharing his truly amazing stories, the author gives people a sense of the dangers and joys that come from diving. His extensive diving career was filled with adventures that will astound and amaze both divers and those who have never looked below the surface of our vast oceans. Slater logged over 5,000 scuba and submersible dives around the world, set a Guinness World Record and survived numerous near-fatal mishaps. He has authored over 40 publications recounting his adventures and has finally put them all together in this exciting book. Slater is a well-known deep-sea explorer, marine geologist, educator, submersible pilot and more.
Views from the Conning Tower
Author: Dr Richard a Slater
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984910526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Treasure hunts, world records, environmental mishaps, scientific studies and deep-sea exploration are just some of the thrilling topics that diver, scientist and author Dr. Richard Slater discusses in his autobiographical book "Views from the Conning Tower." By sharing his truly amazing stories, the author gives people a sense of the dangers and joys that come from diving. His extensive diving career was filled with adventures that will astound and amaze both divers and those who have never looked below the surface of our vast oceans. Slater logged over 5,000 scuba and submersible dives around the world, set a Guinness World Record and survived numerous near-fatal mishaps. He has authored over 40 publications recounting his adventures and has finally put them all together in this exciting book. Slater is a well-known deep-sea explorer, marine geologist, educator, submersible pilot and more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984910526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Treasure hunts, world records, environmental mishaps, scientific studies and deep-sea exploration are just some of the thrilling topics that diver, scientist and author Dr. Richard Slater discusses in his autobiographical book "Views from the Conning Tower." By sharing his truly amazing stories, the author gives people a sense of the dangers and joys that come from diving. His extensive diving career was filled with adventures that will astound and amaze both divers and those who have never looked below the surface of our vast oceans. Slater logged over 5,000 scuba and submersible dives around the world, set a Guinness World Record and survived numerous near-fatal mishaps. He has authored over 40 publications recounting his adventures and has finally put them all together in this exciting book. Slater is a well-known deep-sea explorer, marine geologist, educator, submersible pilot and more.
Transactions - The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
Author: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
List of members in vols. 1-24, 38-54, 57.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
List of members in vols. 1-24, 38-54, 57.
The Bay View Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Group reading
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Group reading
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Western Electrician
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
United States Naval Institute Proceedings
Author: United States Naval Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
South America from a surgeon's point of view
Author: Franklin Henry Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
British Battleships 1919-1945
Author: R.A. Burt
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473812763
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1001
Book Description
The classic reference on the Royal Navy’s battleships and battlecruisers, now expanded with dozens of additional photos. Offering an unprecedented range of descriptive and illustrative detail, this naval history reference describes the evolution of the British battleship classes through all their modifications and refits. As well as dealing with design features, armor, machinery and power plants and weaponry, the author examines the performance of the ships in battle and analyzes their successes and failures. In addition to covering all the Royal Navy’s battleships and battlecruisers, he also looks in detail at the aircraft carrier conversions of the WWI battlecruisers Furious, Glorious and Courageous. British Battleships 1919-1945 is a masterpiece of research, and the comprehensive text is accompanied by tabular detail and the finest collection of photographs and line drawings ever offered in such a book. For this new edition, the author has added some 75 new photographs, many of them never before published. A delight for the historian, enthusiast, and ship modeler, it is a volume that is already regarded as an essential reference work for this most significant era in naval history and ship design.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473812763
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 1001
Book Description
The classic reference on the Royal Navy’s battleships and battlecruisers, now expanded with dozens of additional photos. Offering an unprecedented range of descriptive and illustrative detail, this naval history reference describes the evolution of the British battleship classes through all their modifications and refits. As well as dealing with design features, armor, machinery and power plants and weaponry, the author examines the performance of the ships in battle and analyzes their successes and failures. In addition to covering all the Royal Navy’s battleships and battlecruisers, he also looks in detail at the aircraft carrier conversions of the WWI battlecruisers Furious, Glorious and Courageous. British Battleships 1919-1945 is a masterpiece of research, and the comprehensive text is accompanied by tabular detail and the finest collection of photographs and line drawings ever offered in such a book. For this new edition, the author has added some 75 new photographs, many of them never before published. A delight for the historian, enthusiast, and ship modeler, it is a volume that is already regarded as an essential reference work for this most significant era in naval history and ship design.
Phantom U-Boat
Author: Frank Hibbs
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781462830404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
The mysterious existence called life after death that lurks waiting beyond the reef that all humankind must eventually cross sometimes may encroach onto the mortal shores that humans inhabit and adjust events that weak mortals have misused. Tales told by sailors seems to indicate that strange eerie powers cross this reef in reverse and make adjustments that are beyond the power of mortal humans to change. The legends told by seafaring men are filled with such mysterious tales such as the legend of the Flying Dutchman and others. The battle of the North Atlantic was a generator of such events and is the stage for this tale about restless ghosts.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 9781462830404
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
The mysterious existence called life after death that lurks waiting beyond the reef that all humankind must eventually cross sometimes may encroach onto the mortal shores that humans inhabit and adjust events that weak mortals have misused. Tales told by sailors seems to indicate that strange eerie powers cross this reef in reverse and make adjustments that are beyond the power of mortal humans to change. The legends told by seafaring men are filled with such mysterious tales such as the legend of the Flying Dutchman and others. The battle of the North Atlantic was a generator of such events and is the stage for this tale about restless ghosts.