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Product Description * Advice for sailing, pleasure boating, fishing, and diving emergencies * More than 100 illustrations * Near-shore or out-at-sea first aid covered * As vital a piece of gear as your PFD and signal flares This edition features the latest information on marine first aid. It includes chapters on hazardous marine life, submersion injury and dive medicine, rescue and evacuation of the sick and injured, wound cleaning and closing, and much more. Review If you have only one book about emergency medicine in your marine library, make it this one. - --Chuck Hawley, Chairman of the US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee About the Author ERIC A. WEISS, M.D., FaCEP , is an Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, and the Director of the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Weiss has been medical officer for the for the 1996 Summer Olympics, for National Geographic Society Expeditions, and in Nepal for the Himalayan Rescue Association. He is also the author of , a backcountry medical primer published by Mountaineers Books. MICHAEL JACOBS, M.D., is the author of Survival at Sea, and the founder and program director for the Medicine for Mariners and Safety at Sea Conference. He is a USCG licensed captain and an avid sailor and kayaker.