Tactical Pause: For Daily Growing Leaders
Just beyond the horizon rests a mountain of opportunity, ready and waiting for you to show up and accept its challenges, whereby upon high can be found the success you dream of. Yet to reach that success, you must cross a sea filled with adversity, brave harsh storms, tread rough valleys, climb the mountain, and overcome all the hardships along the way.
What’s the lesson here?
There exists no success without great effort to achieve it.
Tactical Pause gives you 90 days of real-life Combat Veteran mentorship intended to motivate, inspire, and guide you along your journey toward purpose-driven self-betterment, leadership development, and achievement of success.
Developed and written using the science of leadership and personal development, the psychology of learning, stoicism concepts, and a mountain of personal experience, AJ Powell designed Tactical Pause to engage the reader in critical evaluation, prompting them to work toward daily personal self-betterment - the core to leadership development and the achievement of success - by reshaping their mentality and perspective on life toward the same mindset shared by the most driven individuals who consistently achieve success in their endeavors - Astronauts, Pilots, Divers, Special Operators, Athletes, and more... Collectively, "The 1%".
Called "The greatest Veteran-written book YOU have YET to hear about" in 2019, Tactical Pause is purposely designed to accelerate your growth, fine tune your potential, and develop a highly motivated mindset, focused on the mission, and driven succeed.
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SPATIAL DISORIENTATION FOR DIVERS
One of the most important topics for diving never taught or discussed is Spatial Disorientation and its effects. Spatial Disorientation isn't taught because most divers simply don't know about it. Yet Spatial D. as a subject has been around for over a hundred years... In aviation. Aviators the world over are taught and maintain currency on Spatial D. and its effects, and they know exactly how dangerous it can be. Spatial Disorientation applies equally and directly to diving. Learning about this subject could save your life one day, and this book is the start of introducing it to divers everywhere.
This publication was written to address the lack of information that exists today regarding spatial disorientation and its effects as it relates to divers.
Spatial disorientation contributes more to causing accidents than any other psychological problem in a multi-directional space, such as diving underwater or flying through the air. Regardless of their amount of time or experience underwater, all divers are subject to disorientation. The human body is structured to perceive changes in movement when standing vertically on land in relation to the surface of the earth. When diving, the human sensory systems-the visual system, vestibular system, and proprioceptive system-can and will give the brain erroneous orientation information due to positioning and movement of the body in a space and along an axis foreign to our biological design. This information can and will cause some degree of sensory illusions, which in-turn lead to spatial disorientation, that further leads to confusion, lost time in actions, potentially harmful or dangerous reactions, and a developing spiral of out-of-control events leading to an accident or death.
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a guide to sidemount diving -- COMING SOON!!!
This book provides future sidemount divers with a comprehensive foundation for all aspects of sidemount diving, and is intended to be used as both a student manual in conjunction with sidemount training, and a reference guide to further a certified sidemount divers' understandings.
Sidemount is an equipment configuration that places the cylinder(s) for SCUBA on the divers' side rather than on the back. It offers a lower profile than back-mounted cylinder configurations do, and despite its higher cost in equipment and increased complexity in both equipment management and dive planning, sidemount configurations bring with them many benefits. These can include redundancy through independent cylinders, increased safety through redundancy and the ability to easily reach and manipulate cylinders and valves, increased options for dive profiles, planning, and emergencies, nearly unlimited customizability, and increased comfortability for the diver.
Many divers desire to learn to dive using sidemount systems for a variety of reasons. Some simply want to be more comfortable in the water, others are looking at advancing into technical diving, some are already established technical divers now looking at sidemount as an alternative, some may want to use it for professional or occupational purposes, and still others may have physical limitations that sidemount could be the answer for. No matter which reason you personally may have for taking a sidemount course, you should be expected to put fourth your absolute best effort at all times, your instructor should provide a thorough and comprehensive course that exceeds the standards, that challenges you, and they should be willing to offer careful mentorship and guidance both during and after your course to help you grow into a truly competent, confident, capable, and safe sidemount diver.
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PROFESSIONAL DIVERS LOG BOOK
ALL Divers NEED a log book, yet most log books out there aren't worth it. They are either filled with tons of useless items dedicated to things entirely unnecessary for a log book, or they only have space for 20 to 50 dives in them, or both. And this forces you to compromise, as well as spend a lot of money in the long run on many inadequate log books.
Well THIS log book solves all of those problems.
A LOG BOOK FOR OCCUPATIONAL DIVERS, INSTRUCTORS, DIVE MASTERS, PUBLIC SAFETY DIVERS, and all other divers, recreational, technical, and professional alike.
This log book meets requirements for divers to record training, experience, and work performed underwater. It may be used for verification purposes, and may be submitted as legal proof to organizations both public and private, as well as government and legal authorities.
Though its intended use is for professional divers of all types, this log book may be used by divers of all levels, from recreational through to occupational, and it is recommended that divers record all training and qualifications, medical clearances, and evaluations and designations, and continue use through additional logbook volumes once this volume is full.
This logbook contains entries for up to 200 dives, and records are designed purposely to provide only the absolute necessary information in a simple and easily-understandable format. The minimum information required per OSHA and the US Navy includes: Date of the dive; Location of the dive; Purpose of the dive; Time of the dive (Including time down, time up, and total time); Name of the diver and designated position; Name of all team members and their positions; Maximum depth; Dive mode; Nature of work; and Approximate conditions. For dives requiring decompression, the additional minimum information required per OSHA and the US Navy includes: Depth-time and breathing gas profiles; Decompression table, profile, and time (and any modifications); and Elapsed time since last pressure exposure if less than 24 hours.
This logbook meets the requirements for OSHA, the DoD, and the US Navy for personal divers logbooks IAW: OPNAVINST 3150.27D (1MAR21), Appendix B, Para. 36.; the US Navy Diving Manual SS521-AG-PRO-010 (1DEC16), Rev. 7, Vol 1, Ch. 5, Para. 5-7; and 29 CFR Part 1910.440, Sub T, DN: CPL-02-00-151 (13JUN11).
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Hard back, 200 dives, training information, medical information, evaluations, and notes.
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