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As common sense would dictate, no lobster is worth your health or life. However, every year divers push themselves into trouble on their quest for the California Spiny Lobster. Lobster season begins at 12:01am Saturday morning (October 1, 2016), which means many divers will be hitting the water...

The USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber is back on-line. Work on the water supply line to the lab took longer than initially planned. At 16:30 we were informed that Southern California Edison had re-pressurized the lines which allowed us to go back on-line. Thank you for your understanding. --...

To: Members of the Southern California Diving Community From: Karl E. Huggins, Director – USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber Date: August 1, 2014 Re: Catalina Chamber off-line for this weekend due to water line work ________________________________ Due to work on the marine lab’s water...

Great article!!! (Thanks to Mike Emmerman for pointing it out to me) I have worked for many years to get the message across that dive computers are only tools with limitations and they they definitely do not know what is going on with respect to inert gas uptake and elimination in your body. I...

Ah yes, narcosis :) I do not remember coding a "TILT" display. The message screen that came on if you went beyond the 160 fsw limit of the transducer was: DEPTH RANGE HAS BEEN EXCEEDED We designed message screens on graph paper and then coded which pixels were to be turned on and which were to...

To clarify, the EDGE was not my invention, I helped develop it. It was the brainchild of Craig Barshinger who founded Orca Industries and pulled the team together to develop his idea into the EDGE. Without Craig the EDGE never would have happened and the Swiss Table reading Decobrain would...

On Saturday September 17th 2001 the UHMS Pacific Chapter will be holding their annual Divers Day as part of their 2011 meeting on the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center Campus (home to the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber) on Catalina Island. The presentations covered during the day will be: •...

On Saturday September 17th 2001 the UHMS Pacific Chapter will be holding their annual Divers Day as part of their 2011 meeting on the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center Campus (home to the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber) on Catalina Island. The presentations covered during the day will be: •...

The USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber offers classes every year with the goal of better educating divers in the areas from advanced decompression physiology to in-water diving accident management. The courses, and their 2011 dates, are: - EDAM - Emergency Diving Accident Management + March 27 –...

The Pacific Chapter of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society will be holding its annual meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Long Beach October 15-17, 2010. Registration and additional information can be found at: http://www.pacificuhms.org/ The Diving Medicine Sessions centers on...

The Blind Auction for the Mercy Air 20 minute flight for 2 and Lunch with the Flight Crew (valued at $2,500) was left open until June 3rd to allow the divers on the boats that day to participate in the auction. Since some of the divers will not be able to make it out that day we have opened up...

For those of you scheduled for one the Chamber Day boats which did not run on May 6th, we have set the re-sked date as Wednesday, June 3rd. The boats affected are (in alphabetical order): Great Escape, Magician, Pacific Star, Psalty V, Sea Bass, and Second Stage. We realize that some of you...

The first accounting last night at Chamber Evening indicated that Chamber Day 2009 raised $115,000 to support the USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber! This is a very impressive figure, especially in the current economic environment. One reason Chamber Day works is because of the wide...

Chamber Day 2009 is auctioning off an Underwater Kinetics AquaSun eLED Rechargeable Light on-line (Retail Value - $400) in a Blind Bid Auction which runs from now until 12:01 am on May 6th (Chamber Day). What is a Blind Bid Auction? It is along the lines of a Silent Auction, only instead of...

There is only one more day left on the Chamber Day On-Line Blind Bid Auction! The On-line Blind Auction Item is a Sherwood Scuba - Akona Roller Backpack valued at $240. The Auction closes at Midnight tomorrow night. To submit your bid go to: Chamber Day 2008 Blind Auction Form Thank you for...

At about 11:00 am today (May 20th) land and cell phone service to the West End of Catalina was restored. All our phone lines are back up and running and we will be able to be contacted at our Emergency number (310-510-1053) and Office number (310-510-4020). The backup satellite phone that we...

This year’s Flying Dutchman art (below) garnered lots of praise from the people who have seen it. Many people have requested that we make Flying Dutchman tile murals available. In order to get the process started we need to make sure that there is enough interest out there. We need to make a...

WOW! What can I say? The support from the diving community for Chamber Day 2006 was nothing short of incredible! For the last few years the goal of $100,000 was a pie-in-the-sky mark that we had, and this year our updated initial estimate of $ $103,376 surpassed that goal. These funds help to...