- DAN Diving Incident Reports are available: https://www.diversalertnetwork.org/diving-incidents/
- BSAC Diving Incident Reports are available at: http://www.bsac.com/page.asp?section=1038§ionTitle=Annual+Diving+Incident+Report
- Australian Diving Doctor Carl Edmonds and his co-authors have made the 3rd Edition of “Diving Medicine for Scuba Divers” available as a free pdf download on the web. It can be downloaded from here.
- AAUS (American Academy of Underwater Sciences) Workshop Reports:
- University of Michigan Diver Education Series by Lee H. Somers, Ph.D. These short papers touch on diving safety issues that are just as relevant today as they were when they were written in the early 1990s. These reports and others are available from the NOAA Institutional Repository:
- Articles, Papers & Posts (as we are made aware of relevant articles and posts we will link them here):
- Dive Computers and the Magic Bracelet Syndrome – A Diving Medicine Physician’s View of Dive Computer Misconceptions. Gary N. Toups, MD. ScubaBoard. December 2013
- Recommendations for rescue of a submerged unresponsive compressed-gas diver. Mitchell SJ, Bennett MH, Bird N, Doolette DJ, Hobbs GW, Kay E, Moon RE, Neuman TS, Vann RD, Walker R, Wyatt HA. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2012 Nov-Dec;39(6):1099-108.
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Contact Us
USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber
P.O. Box 5069
1 Big Fisherman Cove
Avalon, CA 90704
Helipad Coordinates
33º 26′ 41.171″ N
118º 29′ 00.841″ W
Coordinate System: WGC 84
Link to Preferred Flight Path
Emergency Numbers
Catalina Chamber 24 Hour Emergency Line
(310) 510-1053
LA County Medical Alert Center (MAC)
(866) 940-4401
U.S. Coast Guard Sector LA/Long Beach Search & Rescue
(310) 521-3815
Marine Channel 16
Divers Alert Network (DAN) Emergency Line
(919) 684-9111