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Revieuwed by Rik Rösken A Simple Guide to Snorkeling Fun by Seven M. Barsky is originally written in 1999 for those avid swimmers and water enthiousasts that would like to persue snorkeling and skindiving in open water. Although the name could suggest that the content is a short overvieuw of snorkeling and skindiving, it is in reality not farther from the truth. The explanation of the basic skills and techniques goes further than many course books on the subject. Not does it only suggests which materials a new diver should buy, it also explains in detail how to prepare it and don it. It further also handles swimming skills and techniques in great detail. Ranging from three different kinds of diving down to explaining how to swim over kelp making it a complete textbook on the subject of basic snorkeling and skindiving skills. When, with the help of an instructor, the reader learned the skills described in the book, it also suggests where to put the new skills into work and offers the reader information on handeling marine life, family snorkeling and using the skills for spearfishing, photographing and wreck diving. Finally the book closes with a short chapter on the merits of SCUBA diving. Reading the book as a freediver and compressed air diver, it is great to read how much time and energy the writer obviously has taken into account to determin what a new diver is searching for. Its only minor setback is that since the book was published before the current freediving hype, several of the equipment used seemed old-fashioned, even while the book is just 5 years old. Those divers and instructors who are willingly to look through that will however find it an intresting reference to basic diving skills and techniques. The Simple Guide to Snorkeling Fun Other revieuwed freediving manuals on this site: A Overvieuw of Free Diving Manuals
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