Frank Carlson Library

These are the steps of overcoming fear. Humane. Informed. Learn how the water works with your body and how to be in control in water over your head as well as in shallow water, without ever feeling afraid. Overcoming fear does not entail strokes, which are absent from the book. It just may involve something you never considered before. Comfort is top priority at all times. Comfort in deep water means, "I can swim." The 5 Circles Teaching System unveiled...

Anyone who wants to improve their health and fitness simply by swimming needs this book! Swimming is nothing new, but learning how to do it properly can help you to lose weight, reduce the effects of illnesses and generally improve your overall level of health. Swimming is the perfect low impact exercise for many illnesses and physical problems. It benefits your heart and helps you lose weight. However, it needs to be done in the right way to experience...

Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.

An aging United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Just prior to this same mission his wife announces that she cannot take anymore. This leaves him an emotional wreck. His commander gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position and moves into the school. Once there he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum...

Into the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life diving adventures from Rod's long and varied diving career. It follows his progression from novice diver in the 1980s through the dangers of the deep air diving era and on to trimix diving in the 1990s where divers began to use commercial mixed breathing gases as the sport of technical diving was born. This opened up vast, previously inaccessible, swathes...

Dive Scapa Flow has been THE definitive guide to diving the fabled wrecks of Scapa Flow, one of the world's greatest wreck diving locations. This completely re-written and updated centenary edition is produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the scuttle of the 74 warships of the interned German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow on 21st June 1919 – the greatest act of maritime suicide the world has ever seen. The dark depths of Scapa Flow conceal...

Swimming improves your flexibility, tones your body and can help to boost your self-esteem and produce a sense of well being. It is the nation's most popular sporting activity with 11.9 million people swimming regularly. However, most people don't know how to swim properly. This book is based on a 35-year voyage of discovery into the art of swimming. Steven Shaw's method takes the Alexander Technique into the swimming pool—focusing on releasing...

Éste es un libro sobre el mar. No se lee, se bucea. Trata de buscar la significación humana a través de nuestra presencia marina. La profundidad es una distancia donde se esconde la verdadera intimidad de uno. Cuando entramos en el agua se activan en nuestro cerebro muchos mecanismos que nos conectan con la parte de nosotros que nos define, que nos crea. Si bien el buceo a pulmón es uno de los modos para lograr esa sutura con uno mismo, el océano...

Introducing a new adventure guide for people who love to travel and SWIM • This is a pioneering swim travel guide with over 20 locations around the Mediterranean island of Crete, where open water swimmers can discover routes between 25 meters and 6 km that have a particular beauty, novelty, scenery, or history. • Explore impressive marine caves, fabulous beaches, circumnavigate islets, and swim through tunnels, gorges, and under sea arches. •...

El socorrismo en un medio acuático se desarrolla en un espacio donde conviven personas, de manera que, como en toda convivencia, surgen problemas de conducta entre usuarios, accidentes, etc. de ahí la importancia de estar preparados para cualquier situación, manejando las técnicas de primeros auxilios a la perfección, así como estar dotados de una formación y habilidades sociales que transmitan seguridad y confianza a cualquier persona necesitada...