Safety and Medicine

» 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.
   http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bha/

» 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.

   
   http://www.badalveda.com/

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

   
   http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/

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

   
   http://www.starfish.ch/dive/Divesafety.html

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

   
   http://www.ddrc.org/

» 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.

   
   http://www.divingmedicals.co.uk

» 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.

   
   http://www.sdm.scot.nhs.uk/decompression_illness/index.htm

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

   
   http://medidive.delvtech.com/

» 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.

   
   http://whyfiles.org/sports/scuba/