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Diving Medicals
Dr. Kenneth Vickers a BSAC Dive Leader and General Practitioner gives an overview of some aspects of fitness to dive, contact details and some diving photographs.

Diving Diseases Research Centre Plymouth UK
Providing hyperbaric chamber oxygen treatment facilities and medical training for divers, technicians, nurses and doctors.

DAN Divers Alert Network
A nonprofit scuba diving and dive safety association providing expert medical advice for underwater injuries, emergency information, research, and products.

Dive Safety in Southeast Asia
A list of recompression chambers (hyperbaric chambers) in southeast Asia including Borneo and Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore.

Dive-Training.com
Support service provider using web-based learning to teach new divers the classroom-based material required for SCUBA.

Panic underwater
Some information from a study about panic among divers, and related issues, by Dr. William Morgan, director of the Sport Psychology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the principal author of the study.

The British Hyperbaric Association
Provides details of current clinical practice and avenues of research under exploration. Includes list of member chambers with emergency telephone numbers for divers.

Medidive
Supplier of scuba diving equipment for asthma sufferers. Includes details of products, newsletter and contact information. Located in Brisbane, Australia.

Hyperbaric Medicine Unit - Decompression Sickness
The unit's site provides information for SCUBA divers on decompression sickness, including first aid actions and contact information in the event of a diving emergency.

Badalveda
Provides health service for divers, including recompression facilities and emergency services. Find mission statement, links, and article on diving hazards. Located in Koh Tao, Thailand.


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