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  • 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&sectionTitle=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:
    • Proceedings of the Dive Computer Workshop
    • Proceedings of the Biomechanics of Safe Ascents Workshop
    • Proceedings of the Reverse Dive Profiles Workshop
    • Proceedings of the Repetitive Diving Workshop
  • 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:
    • Buoyancy and the scuba diver
    • Drinking and diving
    • The first responder
    • Oceanography for divers: waves, tides, and currents
    • Respiration and the diver
    • Selecting a scuba diving buddy
    • Thermal stress and the diver
    • Voluntary re-qualification
  • 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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