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Fellow Technical Divers. I just recieved this via Compuserve from Aqua-Corps Magazine. At the risk of being a commercial advertisment I am re-posting it here because of its special value to all technical divers. An Invitation To Dive Into The Future Moscone Center, San Francisco 21-24JAN95 Dear Diving Aficionado- I would like to invite you to explore the future of diving at the 95 tek.Conference & Exhibition. Featuring some of the most intriguing underwater projects on the planet, to the cutting edge of diving technology and beyond, tek will take you where you want to go. Focusing on underwater imaging, rebreather technology, atmospheric diving systems (ADS), and an expanded "getting started in technical diving" track (mind those po2s), this year's conference in San Francisco promises to be one of our best and boldest. With over 65 technical sessions and forums, 130 exhibits, and a full day of hands-on clinics and demos, conducted by some of the leading U/W visionaries and practitioners of our time, tek will provide you with the tools, information and contacts to carry you into the next century. It's a diving opportunity you won't want to miss. Join us in exploring the frontiers. I look forward to talking 2U@te*. Michael Menduno tek.organizer Time Schedule (graphic) 1995 tek.Conference Advance Program (Contact aquaCorps for updates) Forums Held in the main conference auditorium, tek.Forums are designed to address topics and issues that impact a wide range of diving applications and user groups. Dive in and explore the underwater frontier with some of the leading underwater thinkers and practioners of our time. F1: Dive Into The Future (Sat. 21JAN) Keynote Address: To Be Announced Welcome to the 1995 tek.Conference. Diving is in the midst of a technological revolution that is redefining the underwater world. Find out how it may effect your diving application and just how deep it all may go. F2: Imaging The Future (Sun. 22JAN) Explore the cutting edge of U/W imaging technologies including; IMAX, sonar sytems, digital imaging, and emerging diver interfaces. What kind of imaging systems will be available to the 21st century diver? Will your heads-up sonar mask be able to lead you out of a silted cave?The future may be sooner than you imagine. F3: Ideas In U/W Research (Mon. 23JAN) Investigate new ideas in hyperbaric research ranging from applying statistical methods to the problems of toxicity and decompression to investigating the use of hyperbaric treatments for persons with AIDS (PWA). F4: Future Rap (Mon. 23JAN) Join the Corps in a open townhall style meeting to discuss where we go from here. Come and invent a piece of the future. Over 60 Technical Sessions Conducted by leading individuals in their fields, technical sessions organized into "tracks" are designed to provide you with realtime information from those in the know. Tracks and sessions include: computing Over the last three years, we've seen a boom in dive computing software and hardware products. Find out where it's all going. C1: Desktop Decompression Software Review C2: Dive into Internet C3: Data Collection & Logging C4: Decompression Physiology & Practice C4: The Future of DiveComputing diving business Aimed at manufacturers, dive store owners, and instructors, diving business will explore the "bottom line" on technical diving and discuss the risks and opportunities for building your business in this growing market niche. Conference "business pass" required. DB1: Getting Started in The Technical Diving Business DB2: Increasing Your Instructor Income DB3: Choosing A Gas Blending System DB4: Sport Diving Risk Management DB5: Insuring Technical Diving diver safety "Safety is the key consideration in diving; it entirely controls depth capability." Imbert, Ciesielski, & Fructus. DS1: Improving Technical Diving Safety DS2: Treating Mix Divers DS3: Inwater Recompression DS4: Accident Reporting: Who's On First. What's On Second. DS5: High Pressure Nervous Syndrome (HPNS) getting started in technical diving Though it is clearly not for everyone, technical diving appears to have captured the interest and imagination of sport divers around the world. Sponsored by Scuba Times, this track is designed to provide information about this emerging activity including training, equipment and experience requirements. GS1: What Is Technical Diving GS2: Mix Diving GS3: Technical Training- How To Get Started GS4: Gearing Up history & special interest H1: Carlos Eyles' Blue Water Hunter H2: Combat Swimmer H3: What Are Your Legal Rights As A Diver? imaging Conducted by some of the pros of U/W imaging, these sessions will provide you with the information you need to improve your image, technically speaking of course. I1: Stalking Mr. Big I2: The Working Film Maker I3: Wildlife Stills I4: The Future Of Desktop Video & CD-ROM I5: Breaking Into Broadcast I6: U/W Surveying & Mapping Underwater imaging will be a special focus at the 95tek.Conference. Some special guests include; Howard Hall, Amos Nachoum, Chris Newbert, Marty Snyderman, Dan Walsh and more... projects & exploration Get a hands-on review of some of the most intriguing underwater projects on the planet by the individuals out there doing it. Over 20 project presentations from the technical, film and photographic, scientific and working diving communities. Special features; the CSS Alabama, and the Luscitania. PE1-7 (contact aquaCorps for final schedule). rebreathers Many people believe that rebreathers represent the next wave in diving. Sponsored by OC LUGO, these sessions are designed to get you into the loop. R1: Rebreather Primer R2: Rebreather Operations R3: Closed Circuit Bailout Systems R4: Rebreather Training R5: Where Is Rebreather Technology Going? Vendor presentations: Beuchat Rebreather Program (60 min.) tools & methods Diving is a technology-based activity. These "hands-on" sessions will present some of the latest in underwater tools. TM1: Accoustical Diver Navigation & Tracking TM2: DPV Workshop TM3: Full Face Mask Review TM4: Helmets: The Next Generation TM5: Think Hard: A Primer On Atmospheric Diving Systems (ADS) TM6: Portable Chambers TM7: Adding An ROV To Your Team TM8: Getting Into A Surface Supplied System TM9: O2 Cleaning TM10: Improving Your Thermal Protection TM11: USN Heads Up Display Mask TM12: Wireless Communications Systems underwater archaeology & treasure hunting UA1: In The Field: A look At Some Surface-breaking Finds UA2: Government Wrecks (?) and the Public's Right of Access UA3: Shipwreck Law & Salvage Rights user group forums UG1: What Are The Technical Training Standards? UG2: Public Safety Diving: The Move To Standardized Training working diver Aimed at dive contractors, working divers and diving professionals these sessions are designed to improve your "bottom line." WD1: Hazmat Diving: Opportunites and Requirements WD2: Inland Nitrox: A Method To Improve your Bottom Line? WD3: Job Opportunites In The Commercial Market WD4: Putting Rebreathers To Work WD5: Training & Equipping Your PS Diving Team Evening Show (8p Sunday 22JAN): Exploring The Underwater Frontier Explore the frontier with some of leading U/W visionaries on the planet; film wildlife with rebreathers, explore shipwrecks under pack ice, patrol the remote frontiers 1000 meters down, and swim in "a sea of dreams." Featuring the 1995 tekkie awards, and some surprises. The future is down below. (;->). tek.ADS Banquet Are Atmospheric Diving Systems (ADS) The Wave of the Future? Climb in and boot up with underwater visionary Graham Hawkes, chairman & founder of Deep Ocean. Sponsored by PADI. Legal Narcosis 2.0 You are here by summoned to the tek.Conference cocktail party, Legal Narcosis 2.0, sponsored by Hruska & Lessor, featuring Dr. Bill's Special Mix (We won't hold you liable!) Meetings Accident Reporting Luncheon Deja Vu (Organizational meeting for a diving technologies association. Contact: Tracy Robinette f: 714.773.0471). West Coast Technical Divers Association (Contact: Brian Libby, f: 310.364.5270) Exhibition (Sat. 21JAN-Mon.23JAN) Over 125 exhibits open to the diving public. Come and see the latest in diving technology. Exhibition Talks: Becoming A Professional Instructor What Is Technical Diving Improving Diving Performance With Nitrox Are Rebreathers The Wave of the Future? Becoming A Working Diver Special features: Back To The Future (The Diving Historical Society) Iron Men Manipulator Robotics-squeeze hard. USN HUD Mask Protoype Internet.live Virtual Diving Exhibitor Sales & Information: For exhibitor and advertising sales and information contact: Jack Perry, aquaCorps: 407.627.4526/f: 407.625.3255. Clinics (Tuesday, 24JAN) tek. Clinics will be conducted at the Hilton Hotel. CL1: Nitrox Instructor (All day) Conducted by IANTD president, Tom Mount. Prereq: Open water instructor/divemaster, nitrox certification. Cost: $295/ Text & certification: $125 CL2: Technical Diving Instructor (All Day) Conducted by Technical Diving Int'l. president Bret Gilliam. Prereq: TDI, ANDI or IANTD nitrox instructor. Cost: $200 CL3: Nitrox User (Half day). Conducted by Wings Stocks, Ocean Odyssey. Classroom training and IANTD certification. Course: $125. Text $30. CL4: Gas blending & Mixing Technician (Half Day) Conducted by IANTD founder, Dick Rutkowski. This clinic will teach interested individuals how to blend nitrox and trimixes. Prereq: Nitrox certification. Cost: $175. Text not included. CL5: How Technical Diving Can Increase Store Profits (Half Day) Program demonstrates the sales/profit potential for technical programs in retail and resort operations. Conducted by TDI directors and store owners; Mitch Skaggs, John Comly, Steve Pearson. Cost: $100 CL6: Doppler Primer (Half day) A basic primer on doppler technology and techniques conducted by hyperbaric researcher, Mike Emmerman, Karl Huggins, Catalina Chamber, and Patricia Stockhausen, EMT. Cost: $75. CL7: The Working Photographer (Full day) Conducted by wildlife photographer and film maker, Marty Snyderman, this "hands-on" clinic will begin with fundamentals, and cover macro, wide angle, system selection, matching equipment and expectations, composition and problem solving. Cost: $175. CL8: Deep Air (Half day) Conducted by Hal Watts, Professional Scuba Association. Classroom lecture and PSA certification. Cost: $99. Text: $25. CL9: Rebreathers CL9a: Rebreather Experience (Half day) Classroom lecture and pool session with the Prism semi-closed rebreather. Conducted by Peter Readey, Prism Life Support and Hal Watts, PSA. Cost: $125. Text: $25. C10a/b: Wreck Diving With Gary Gentile (details to follow) Partial Listing: Call or fax for updated listing. GET WET (Tuesday 24JAN) C'mon and make splash at the Hilton Hotel Pool and see some of the latest tekkie toys. HUD Mask demos Rebreather demos (see CL8 above). Full Face Mask/COMM demos Tek out in Monterey (Thurs.-Sun, 26-29JAN) aquaCorps has arranged a series of dive trips in Monterey Bay in conjunction with Ocean Odyssey Technical Diving Center. Diving will include; nitrox kelp diving, a deep mix dive at Pt. Lobos Sanctuary, and a recreational exposures. For information call: 408.475.DIVE, f: 408.475.3526. Hotel Stay at the 95tek.Conference & DEMA headquarter hotel and receive a special discount. Call 415.771.1400/f: 415.771.6807. Travel Book your flight to tek and save money. US: call p: +1.800.334.4041/ f: 305.294.0909. Europe: p: +44.708.444.421/f: +44.708.457.664. (Emergency inflight oxygen available at no extra charge.) Some of the people You Will Be talking 2@te*: Peter Androvich/TBA Michel & Sheri Appellis/SeaClypse Georges Arnoux/Stolt Comex Seaways Corey Berggren/Cybertronix Ed Betts/ANDI Mike Bielinski/aquaCorps Randy Bohrer/Underwater Applications Curt Bowen/illustrator John Brooks/NPS Gene Broom/Beuchat Glenn Butler/Life Support Technologies Ian Capon/Virtual S Carol Chaikin/JAZZ Bob Chaplin/SUITS John Chatterton/commercial diver Stuart Clough/Carmellan Research Mike Cochran/Cochran Computing John Comly/Blue Abyss Walter Comper/aquaCorps Bob Cranston/Howard Hall Productions John Crea/Submariner Research Dave Crockford/BSAC Dudley Crosson/Delta P Tim Curtiss/Carleton Technologies Billy Deans/Key West Diver Spin Doktor/aquaCorps Bobby J. Delise/Vosbein, Delise Amadee & Bertrand Larry Elsevier/Bellingham Dive & Travel Mike Emmerman/hyperbaric researcher John Ennis/Amron Carlos Eyles/author Rod Farb/photographer Marco Flagg/Desert Systems Richard Fryburg/SubSalve Dennis Gallagher/Coastal Systems Station Bob Garth/Scuba Times Fred Garth/Scuba Times Gary Gentile/author Steve Gerrard/Aquatech Bret Gilliam/Technical Diving International John Griffith/OMS Gary Goodan/Lubrication Technologies Kevin Gurr/IANTD Max Hahn/VDST Alton Hall/Vosbein, Delise Amadee & Bertrand Howard Hall/Howard Hall Productions RW Bill Hamilton/Hamilton Research Ltd. Lad Handelman/aquaCorps Graham Hawkes, Deep Ocean Paul Heinmiller/ORCA Peter Hess/attorney Lamar Hires/Dive Rite Mfrg. Tony Hoile/BSAC Bob Hollis/Oceanic JR Hott/NMRI Karl Huggins/Catalina Chamber Cavett Hughes/Hughes & Associates Eric Hutchinson/Out of The Blue Jean-Pierre Imbert/Stolt Comex Seaways Todd Ives/Tech Reps Bob Izdepski/Universal Diver Mike Jarvis/Polar Bear Robert Jechart/RJE Int'l Jay Jeffries/Diving Unlimited Int'l Jim Joiner/Best Publishing Jennifer King/Women's Scuba Assoc. Alan Krasberg/Spinarc Graham Lawrie/Health & Safety Executive Leslie Leaney/Historical Diving Society Richard Lesser/Hruska & Lesser Peter Lewis/Hyperbarics Technologies Randy Lewis/American Rescue Mark Leonard/Dive Rite Mfrg Brian Libby/West Coast technical Diving Steven J. Linton/IADRS Dick Long/Diving Unlimited Int'l Richard Lugo/OC LUGO Kourosh Mahboubian/Mad Dog Expeditions Eric Maiken/Univ. of Calif. William Mathers/archeologist Charles Maxwell/Underwater Video Services Michael Menduno/aquaCorps Bev Morgan/Diving Systems Int'l Keith Morris/photography Tom & Patti Mount/IANTD Andy Mrozinski/St. Mary's Hospital Amos Nachoum/photogrpher Dan Nafe/MIG Technologies Mark Nease/Key West Diver Chris Newbert/photographer Gary Nichols/Scuba Times Ron Nishi/DCIEM Richard Nordstrom/Cis-Lunar Labs Phil Nuytten/Hard Suits Bruce O'Bannon/RJE Int'l Russell Orlowski/Draeger Rob Palmer/Technical Diving Int'l Henri Paole/Beuchat Smokey Parrow/aquaCorps Mike Parker/RIX Chris Parrett/Abysmal Diving Steve Pearson/TDI Jerry Peck/Ocean Technology Systems Jack Perry/aquaCorps Dennis Pierce/Epic Dives Julie Pounder/aquaCorps europe John Proust/Hard Suits Richard Pyle/Bishop Museum Robert Quintano/Beuchat Lee Racicot/Cross Foundation Peter Radslif/Oceanic Adam Ravetch/film maker Peter Readey/Prism Life Support Donnie Reid/Watervision Drew Richardson/PADI Tracy Robinette/SeaPro Bill Roe/Florida Scuba News Dick Rutkowski/IANTD Bruce & Lisa Ryan/NSS-CDS Ronald Ryan/Delta Barics John Schramko/Viking Karl Shreeves/PADI Cliff Simoneau/Polar Bear Frank Sanger/Parkway Group Joe Sink/Brownies Third Lung Mitch Skaggs/H2O Scuba Brian Skerry/photographer Marty Snyderman/film maker Rod Stanley/SonSub Int'l Bob Stinton/Diving Unlimited Int'l Wings Stocks/Ocean Odyssey David Story/Silicon Graphics Robert Stoss/Scuba Pro Simon & Polly Tapson/Luscitania Expedition Ed Thalmann/Duke Universtiy Juergen Tillman/Draeger Bill Turbeville/Hruska & Lessor Pat Turnidge/Divelink Frans Vandermolen/Flying Dutchman Hyperbarics Richard Vann/Duke University Peter Vickers/Farrallon Dan Walsh/Upfront Communications Hal Watts/Professional Scuba Assoc. Doug Wisner/journalist David Youngblood/Oxycare John Zumrick/USN Christopher M. Parrett President Abysmal Diving Inc. Makers of ABYSS, Advanced Dive Planning Software
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