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This is one that I think many will find interesting so I am not posting it to Dive Med... Mitchell SJ, Bennett MH, Bird N, Doolette DJ, Hobbs GW, Kay E, Moon RE, Neuman TS, Vann RD, Walker R, Wyatt HA. Recommendations for rescue of a submerged unresponsive compressed-gas diver. Undersea...

Rubicon launched a survey in collaboration with the Divers Alert Network, Duke Anesthesiology, and the Navy Experimental Diving Unit. Our aim is to evaluate use of existing carbon dioxide (CO2) canister tracking technology within the recreation and technical diving community. Please check out...

The goal of Project Pink Tank is to improve our understanding of diver health among breast cancer survivors. The knowledge gained will be used to create a platform for future research and dive medicine consensus conferences. We are looking for participants in our study of diver health among...

This is the third annual summary of the Rubicon Research Repository top search results for the previous year. The largest collection growth continued to be the Naval Submarine Medical Research Lab (NSMRL) technical reports. This collection was being expanded as a result of funding from the US...

Many of you are familiar with the work I have done in creating the Rubicon Research Repository. Now, I need your help! I learned today that the "Chase Community Giving on Facebook" program selected Rubicon for their contest. We need your vote to help us get into the top 200 charities. You...

Has anyone picked up a copy of this book yet? I am getting a copy from Caroline at Beneath the Sea this weekend but wondered if anyone has reviewed it? Caroline E. Fife and Marguerite St. Leger Dowse (eds). 2010. Women and Pressure: Diving and Altitude. Best Publishing Company. 415 pages...

I have had a few requests to follow-up my post summing up the most popular downloads from the Rubicon Research Repository (RRR) of 2008 with a 2009 list (2008 list here). I also thought I would take this opportunity to let you all know what we have been up to this year. While the volume of the...

Seemed like a little something you all might enjoy! Diving Medicine for Scuba Divers. 2010 edition. by Dr Carl Edmonds; Dr Bob Thomas; Dr Bart McKenzie; John Pennefather

Dr. Christian Lambertsen, environmental medicine research professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has donated his collection of literature and research to the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) Charles W. Shilling Library. Today, the raw data, books, and technical reports...

Thanks to Karl Huggins at Catalina, we have added his workbook from the "Dynamics of decompression workshop" to the Rubicon Research Repository. Thought some of you might enjoy the read: Huggins, KE. (1992) Dynamics of decompression workshop. University of Michigan. RRR ID: 8078

I just had a question from a friend of mine and thought someone here might know. "We are trying to find out the type/name of knot that's on the front of the MARK V ~ the one that drapes down over the breastplate." Any thoughts? or ideas of a reference I could use to answer this one? Thanks!

I was wondering if the Museum could suggest any good books or other references on the history/ development of specific equipment (masks, fins, etc.)? I have found Robert Davis' 1955 Deep Diving and Submarine Operations (6th ed.). very helpful but know there has to be more recent work covering...

We recently posted this paper to the RR Repository and I thought you guys might find the comments interesting: Full paper can be found here: Lobel PS. Diver Eco-Tourism and the Behavior of Reef Sharks and Rays an Overview. In: Brueggeman P, Pollock NW, eds. Diving for Science 2008...

In 2005, Rubicon was tasked with scanning the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Workshop collection. We needed a new computer and more external storage to take on an undertaking of this size and the Divers Alert Network stepped in with the needed equipment to complete the scanning in...

There have been many discussions on contaminated breathing gas over the years. Last year, Drs. Millar and Mouldey (our very own Swampdiver) published an extensive review in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine on breathing gases and the potential problems associated with breathing gas production and...

This has been an interesting year of growth from the Rubicon Foundation. We managed to collect and add over 2,000 new items to the Rubicon Research Repository (RRR), we have seen the web site traffic grow from just over 3,000 unique IP addresses a month last January to over 10,000 last month, we...

Today we are proud to announce that we have added a set of files that were first requested on another board on 7-25-07. It has taken a while to get through the Canadian Government legal department but I am happy to announce that the Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) (formerly DCIEM)...

Thanks to DSAT/ PADI for the addition of this classic. Richardson, D; Menduno, M; Shreeves, K. (eds.) 1996. Proceedings of Rebreather Forum 2.0. Diving Science and Technology, Santa Ana, CA. RRR ID: 7555 Table of Contents: Braving the Loop: Opening Session; Rebreather Primer; Physiological...

In following up on a request on another board, we requested permission from Cambridge University Press for the addition of Haldane's landmark paper on decompression. They granted permission yesterday so please enjoy! Boycott AE, Damant GCC, Haldane JS. The prevention of compressed air illness...

We have added the Undersea Hyperb Med. 2007 May-Jun;34(3) per the UHMS embargo. The diving related articles that may be of interest are listed below. Lindholm P, Wylegala J, Pendergast DR, Lundgren CEG. Resistive respiratory muscle training improves and maintains endurance swimming performance...