BR 155/43 the Diving Manual, 1943, Admiralty (Gunnery Branch)

BR 155/43 the Diving Manual, 1943

Hardback; blue faux leather spine and light blue board cover. Cover heavily worn and marked with stains, inscriptions and stamped ‘Instructional Diving Officer, 3rd March 1952, HMS Vernon’.
Inside covers stamped ‘OU & BR Office, HMS Vernon, 29 February 1952’.
Title page stamped ‘Instructional Diving Officer, 3rd March 1952, HMS Vernon’ and inscribed ‘206’
Notations on several pages and slips of paper glued in to add or correct information. Amendments listed by hand on Amendment page.
One fold-out page torn and repaired with archival tape.

Contents:
The physics of diving and their effect on the human body
Description of the apparatus and its care and maintenance
Dressing the diver, attendance and signals
Practical work under water
The management of diving duties of the Officer in charge, rules for decompression in depths up to 200 feet.
Diving in deep water, using the Davis Submerged Decompression Chamber
Compressed air illness and accidents to the diver
Underwater tools and tubular construction
Breathing apparatus pattern 230 and oxygen breathing apparatus
Orders and regulations concerning divers

154 pages + 11 fold-out colour pages at the end of the book
B&W and colour illustrations
152 mm x 240 mm (approx. 6 in x 9.5in)
1943, His Majesty’s Stationery Office