Contact: Maria Hults Phone: (631) 728.2285 [email protected] Beneath The Sea 2015 th 39 Anniversary Show: Dive Medicine Press Release

Dive Medicine Beneath the Sea 2015

Dive Medicine, Education and Dive Safety That All Divers Should Know Friday, March 27th beginning 8:30 a.m. At the Meadowlands Exposition Cnter

This years Dive Medicine Workshop will bring four national leaders in Dive Medicine, Dive Education and Dive Safety. Four topics reviewed will be the topics of Otic , Pros and Cons of warm Water vs. Cold water Training, in water recompression, and the very common concern what medications are safe for divers. At the conclusion of the lectures, there will be a panel discussion. The format will allow for audience participation and questions and answers session. Four Continuing Medical Education Category One Credits are available. Cost $75.00 Includes Lunch

Otic Barotrauma

Otic barotrauma is the most common injury that a diver faces on a regular basis. An overview of the will begin this discussion. Conditions related to barotrauma, the external, middle and inner ear will be discussed. We will emphasis those conditions that are due to barotrauma and distinguish those conditions that are related to illness. Prevention, recognition and treatment will be discussed. The video otoscope will be used to demonstrate the various maneuvers in clearing the divers ears. Bio: David Charash DO, CWS, FACEP, UHM Dr. Charash is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine, and Undersea and . David has completed training by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency/Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine as a Dive Medicine Physician, and Medical Examiner of Diver programs. David is a medical director of a wound care and hyperbaric medicine program. David has a dedicated medical practice in Ridgefield Connecticut. In addition to offering medical evaluation and consultation to the diving community, David has acted as medical consultant to Operations.

David has lectured Nationally on various Dive Medicine and Safety topics. He is a guest lecturer at the United States Navy Base Groton, Ct. At the Naval Undersea Medical Institute, he has lectured to the Dive Medicine Officer/Undersea Medical Officers on a number of Dive Medicine topics. As a DAN instructor he has taught Commercial, Public safety, Scientific and Recreational Divers. As a Diver this year he had the opportunity to Dive on board the Aquarius during and visit with Third Generation Ocean Explorer .

Pros and Cons of Warm Water vs. Cold Water Dive Training

Every choice in diving comes with both pros and cons that need to be compared. These choices include training and accumulating dive experience in warm water or in cold water. We’ll look at both the physiological and the psychological impact of diving in waters of markedly different . Issues covered include: Physiological and psychological considerations, equipment challenges, thermal issues, primacy of , muscle , narcosis, and more. • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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BIO:

Bernie Chowdhury, CHT Instructor: DAN, NAUI, PADI, SDI, and TDI

Bernie has been diving since 1984, and teaching since 1988. He has taught both recreational and technical courses in warm and in cold water. His extensive cold-water diving experiences include the Norwegian Arctic, Iceland, Scotland, Newfoundland, Canada, as well as wrecks off of the U.S. northeast coast, including the Andrea Doria. He is the author of , published in eleven languages, an audio version, and as an e- book, Beneath the Sea’s 2001 Diver of the Year (Education), and an Explorers Club Fellow since 1995. An active instructor, Bernie teaches courses up to and including Advanced as well as Advanced Wreck (Penetration).

In Water Recompression

Recreational and scientific divers are conducting decompression dives in remote areas without access to recompression chambers. Should a incident occur, traditional protocols mandate placing on and transporting to the most accessible chamber. With this definitive care often days away, delay in treatment has often resulted in permanent physiological deficits. In 2014 IANTD and DAN hosted a symposium to discuss the benefits and procedures for an alternative strategy, utilizing In-Water Recompression (IWR). This presentation will summarize the results of that symposium, including a review of the consensus guidelines agreed upon during the program.

Bio: Jeff Bozanic is the President of Next Generation Services, where he provides consulting and training services in the diving market. Clients include manufacturers, training agencies, and legal agencies. Jeff has participated or led over 50 diving expeditions during the past 30 years, to places like Palau, Canary Islands, and Antarctica. Jeff was certified as a NAUI Instructor in 1978, is certified to teach diving for the NSS-CDS, NACD, IANTD, TDI, and NAUI. He is active in teaching , rebreather, , technical nitrox, and trimix diving courses. He has published extensively on diving education topics, with heavy emphasis on . Jeff has edited/reviewed many diving textbooks, and is the author of Mastering and the Technical Editor of the 5th Edition of the NOAA Diving Manual. He has received the NAUI Outstanding and Continuing Service Awards; the Silver Wakulla, Abe Davis, Henry Nicholson, and International Cave Diving Awards for safe cave diving; the SSI Platinum Pro 5000 Award, and is a NAUI Hall of Honor inductee. In 2007 he was honored as the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year.

Medications and Diving

An up to date approach to the issues of medications related to diving. Emphasized is a systems approach to evaluate medical questions for divers who are either taking medications or will take medications

Bio: Marty McCafferty, EMT-P DMT-A and DAN Medical Information Specialist Marty has been both a dive instructor and a paramedic since 1995. He has worked as a paramedic in the field, in an ER and as an EMS supervisor at an Ohio theme park. He also has experience-training students with disabilities to dive. Additionally he was certified as an AHA BLS and instructor as well as an EMT instructor. He has been with DAN since 2004. Marty’s passion is education. In 2006 he developed DAN’s Webinar program, where divers from around the world login to real-time lectures with DAN Medics on a variety of dive safety related topics. In 2007 Marty recorded DAN’s first dive safety DVD lecture, "I May Be Bent…Now What?" Each year, Marty represents DAN at consumer and industry dive shows as well as professional level conferences, providing lectures, seminars and workshops on various topics related to diving medicine. Marty’s intention is to continue his own education and continue working to develop new educational opportunities for the diving