BSAC 2019 Conference: Drs. Neal Pollock & Simon Mitchell (and more)

[Jay]

There are several excellent presentations.

The Q&A with Dr. Neal Pollock was very interesting with lots of good questions. Some of the topics touched on were: a max GFHi of 70, forget the 'deepest dive first' rule, being slightly negative on a SS, final stop depth, DCIEM tables, military divers vs. 'regular' divers, and cataracts and PO2.

His main presentation was about innovation and some hazards that also happen to occur alongside.

Dr. Simon Mitchell's presentation was about Human Risk Factors focusing on Violations and Errors ... and a great OZ/Kiwi joke at ~19mins

Links to their videos:

Dr Neal Pollock on the future of diver protection

Professor Simon Mitchell talks 'The shortest road to increased safety in diving'

For all the BSAC 2019 presentations: BSAC Diving Conference 2019 videos of presentations

Like me, if you didn't know what on earth DCIEM tables were, here's a PDF attached. On a first (quick) look, they appear to be ~a group factor more conservative than PADI tables for single dives and several groups more conservative on repetitive dives.

 

[rsingler]

Thanks, @Jay Very nice of you to share this! The Q&A session was especially interesting. Lots of little gold nuggets there.

 

[Fibonacci]

Two very interesting talks... thanks @Jay!

 

[chillyinCanada]

Thanks Jay!! Really appreciate this!

 

[chillyinCanada]

Thanks, @Jay Very nice of you to share this! The Q&A session was especially interesting. Lots of little gold nuggets there.

Indeed! I don't think that I can go back to doing my stops vertical though. Lol

 

[axluba]

Very interesting ! Thanks!

 

[Wathdoc]

Excellent presentations.

 

[FreeFlyFreak]

Thanks for posting the DCIEM tables.
I wondered what they looked like.

Very surprised to see the 60 ft/min +/-10 ascent rate.
And 100% O2 deco at 30 ft depth.

 

[biggpa]

For those interested, here is the recreational checklist study: effect of using a pre-dive checklist on the incidence of diving mishaps in recreational scuba diving: a cluster-randomized trial
Checklist uploaded below. It is in the "Supplementary Table 2" in the actual study.

 

[markmud]

Thanks, @Jay Very nice of you to share this! The Q&A session was especially interesting. Lots of little gold nuggets there.

Ditto rsingler,
thanks for posting Jay,
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