Basic Physical Principles

• Force and pressure
• Buoyancy
• Temperature and Thermodynamics

Gasses

• Basics
• Ideal gas
• Air

Underwater vision

• Refraction
• Why we need a diving mask
• The way things look underwater
• References

The color of water: visibility

• Physical principles
• Water

Decompression theory - neo-Haldane models

• History
• Inert gas saturation and supersaturation
• Calculating inert gas absorption by the tissue
• Half-times
• The alveolar partial pressure
• Examples
• Supersaturation limits and M-Values
• M-value tables

Decompression theory - Bubble models

• History
• Bubbles and surface tension
• Bubbles and diffusion
• The Varying Permeability Model (VPM)
• Applying VPM to diving
• The Reduced Gradient Bubble Model (RGBM)
• References

Decompression theory - Calculating deco profiles

• The procedure
• A deco profile example
• Notes

Decompression theory - Experimental decompression program

• The program
• How to use
• Software Design

The physics of bubble rings

• Bubble rings
• The physics of bubbles
• The physics of bubbles

Glossary and units

• Glossary of Symbols
• Units