The discussions included how often checklists are used (if at all), and how effective are they (when they are used).
To date, there has not been any formal studies undertaken to determine checklist use within the community. Now a PhD research project - primarily examining the role of Human Factors in SCUBA diving - is looking at checklist usage.
It all started in 1965 when Bernard Eaton organised the first Brighton Underwater Film Festival. This competition led to the foundation of the
British Society of Underwater Photographers in 1967.
In ancient China crabs were smashed open and thrust into wounds in battles because chitosan is antimicrobial, meaning it heals and kills bacteria.
Chitosan's properties allow it to rapidly clot blood and promote hemostasis (stops bleeding). Chitosan bonds with platelets and red blood cells to form a gel-like clot which seals a bleeding vessel.
DDRC Healthcare, based in Plymouth England, are running a Taster Day on Monday 14th March 2016.
This one day course includes presentations and practical experience, and offers practising doctors an overview of diving and hyperbaric medicine, and diving accident recognition and management.
Topics covered;
Leading personnel from the British Sub Aqua Club and Global Underwater Explorers have confirmed a review has been completed on how to integrate GUE divers into BSAC branches.
The useful discussions centred around reinforcing common training features and identifying any mismatches that might cause inconsistencies on branch dives between GUE and BSAC-trained divers.
Drs. José I Castro, Keiichi Sato, and Ashby B. Bodine, have discovered a new method of embryonic nourishment in sharks. The tiger shark secretes a nutritive liquid which fills the egg sacs where the embryos are growing, permitting higher numbers of offspring to attain a large size. Their paper, entitled "A novel mode of embryonic nutrition in the tiger shark, (Galeocerdo cuvier)," has just been published in the journal Marine Biology Research.
According to a new study by Rachel Cartwright and colleagues from California State University, Channel Islands, baleen whale calves develop oxygen-carrying myoglobin as they mature, with exercise driving the vital component of early development.
