Dr. David Charash
Tuesday, November 24th
@ 7:30PM EST
Diving in the time of COVID-19 and Updates to the Medical Guidelines

Presentation Abstract
Update on Medical Fitness to Dive and Diving in the era of Covid-19 Topics:
1) Understand what Dive Medical Fitness means to the diver
2) Update on the newest World Recreational Scuba training Council Medical Fitness Guidelines
3) Medical Fitness and Diving in the era of Covid-19
4) Update on Newest Dive Medical Fitness Guidelines
Bio
David Charash DO,CWS,FACEP,FUHMDr Charash is Board Certified In Emergency Medicine, Undersea and Hyperbaric MedicineHe has cared for injured Divers since 1992He is a NOAA Certified Dive Medicine Physician and a Certified Dive Fitness Medical ExaminerHe has lectured at the United States Coast Guard Academy and the Naval Undersea Medical Institute on a variety of dive medicine topics.He speaks locally, nationally and internationally on Dive Safety, Dive Technology, and Dive MedicineDr Charash works with recreational, scientific, public safety, commercial and military diving communities.He is a PADI Rescue Diver
Karl Huggins
Tuesday, December 8th
@ 7:30PM EST
Dive Computers and Decompression

Presentation Abstract
What is programmed into Dive Computers and how do they work? These are some of the questions addressed in this presentation. Starting some general concepts of decompression theory, this presentation looks at how those theories are translated into models which can be used to generate decompression tables and ultimately be programmed into Dive Computers. Since there are different models, this talk looks at the response to the same profile by various tables and computers. The advantages and disadvantages of dive computers will be examined, as well as factors that can influence susceptability to decompression sickness which tables and computers do not incorporate, and activities divers can incorporate to reduce their risk for decompression sickness.
Bio
Karl Huggins has been the Director of the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber Facility at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center since 1992 and has been involved with the treatment of hundreds of divers during that time. He is noted for his work in decompression theory and models, which resulted in the Michigan Sea Grant (HUGI) tables and his participation in the development of the EDGE dive computer. Karl enjoys educating divers in the area of decompression (making divers more aware of the limitations of dive tables and computers) and diving safety. To that end he has given hundreds of lectures, seminars, and workshops as a featured speaker at conferences around the world. In 2011 he co-moderated the Validation of Dive Computers Workshop at the annual meeting of the European Underwater and Baromedical Society in Gdansk. Karl is the 1990 recipient of the Leonard Greenstone Diving Safety Award, the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year for 1993, the 2004 Conrad Limbaugh Memorial Award for Scientific Diving Leadership and the 2008 California Scuba Service Award.

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