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BTS/Dive Philadelphia 6-8 October 1995
Valley Forge Convention Center, King Of Prussia, PA
Friday night: Opening party to meet the speakers and exhibitors - cash
bars, networking, fun.
Saturday 7 October:
All day - Workshops, Exhibits, Speakers (seminars), and the Medicine &
Physiology of Diving Symposium, presented in plain English.
Cayman Islands sponsored party Saturday evening.
BTS/Dive Philadelphia/Lawrence Factor Air Aware Awards - at evening party
Sunday 8 October:
All day - Workshops, Exhibits, Speakers (seminars), The Techs-Mechs
Technical Diving Symposium, and Save-a-Life at the Red Cross Bloodmobile.
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Seminars Bethlehem Room
SUBJECT TO CHANGE:
Saturday
9:30-10:15 Bends Is Not a Dirty Word with Joel Silverstein
10:15-11:00 Thief of the Deep, with Jon Coon
11:00-11:45 SCUBA On-Line: Navigating a Sea of Information,
with Tracey Baker Wagner
LUNCH 12-1
1:00-1:45 Inshore Critters / Offshore Beasties, with Pete Nawrocky
1:45-2:30 Diving the New Jersey State Aquarium, With The Ocean Based
Atlantic Dive Team
2:30-3:15 Cave Diving Using Mixed Gas Rebreathers in the 1950's, with
Oliver Wells.
3:15-4:00 Narvik Wreck Graveyard of the Norwegian Arctic,
with Bernie Chowdhury
4:00-4:45 Cedam Expeditions, with Dave and Noreen Downs
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Sunday
10:00-10:45 Where Do The Numbers Come From? Steve Fredrick
10:45-11:30 A Day In The Life of A Police Diver, with T/Sgt. John
Knoetgen
11:30-12:00 What Are you Breathing? The Air Aware Project, with
Michael Casey of the Lawrence Factor Company
LUNCH 12-1
1:00-1:30 Diving the North Pole, with Bob Christ
1:30-2:00 Big Animal Encounters - UNEXSO 30 minutes
2:00-2:45 Learning From Their Mistakes: Diving accident prevention,
audience participation, with Dr. Thomas Millington
2:45-3:30 Expediton Diving - Arctic to Amazon with Bernie Chowdhury
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Medicine & Physiology of Diving Symposium
UHMS benefit
Saturday 7 Oct. 95. 8:30 - 5:30 New Hope Room.
Welcome multimedia show by Gordon Yerry 8:30-8:50
Snacks sponsored by Elite Health Products and
the Lawrence Factor Company, air purification specialists
REGISTRATION 8:30-8:50am
Welcome by the Program Chair Dr. Tom Millington 8:50-9:00
Fred Bove, M.D., Ph.D. Avoiding the bends: 9:00-9:45
safe use of tables and computers
Lawrence Martin, M.D. Pulmonary controversies - smoking and
diving, and can asthmatics dive? 9:45-10:30
BREAK 10:30- 10:45
Marla Tonseth, P.T.,M.B.A. How to lift your gear without 10:45-11:30
killing your back and neck
Owen O'Neill, M.D. The diving physical: what and why 11:30-12:00
for divers and physicians.
LUNCH 12-1
Maurice Cross, M.D. Been there, done that: diving 1:00-1:45
research explained
Richard Vann, Ph.D. Decompression and bubble physiology:
theory from then to now 1:45-2:30
BREAK 2:30-2:45
Ed Thalmann, M.D. Decompression sickness treatment: 2:45-3:30
history and procedures
Richard Clompus, O.D. Vision and vision correction - 3:30-4:15
New Options
Thomas Millington, M.D. Epidemic of decompression illness: 4:15-4:45
the lobster divers of the Miskito Coast
Joint PANEL 4:45-5:30
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Techs/Mechs Symposium
Sunday 8 Oct 1995 8:30-5:30. New Hope Room.
Technical and Mechanical Aspects of Technical Diving
Welcome multimedia show by Gordon Yerry 8:30-8:50
Snacks sponsored by Elite Health Products and
the Lawrence Factor Company, air purification specialists
REGISTRATION 8:30-8:50am
- Welcome by the Program Chair Mr. Tom Maddox 8:50-9:00
- How To Not Die While Ice Diving, with LifeGuard Systems 9:00-9:45
- Rebreathers!, with Barb Lander 9:45-10:30
BREAK 10:30-10:45
- Full Face Masks and Communications, with Tom Maddox, MAR-VEL
Underwater Equipment, Inc. 10:45-11:30
- Nitrox and Trimix Questions:
You Ask 'Em We Answer 'Em with John Comly. 11:30-12:00
Lunch 12:00-1:00
- Update - Where Technical Diving Is In Europe, 1:00-1:30
with Bernie Chowdhury
- The Original Techies, with Maurice Cross, M.D. Director 1:30-2:30
DDRC, Fort Bovisand, England.
BREAK 2:30-2:45
- The Real Dirt on Contaminated Water Diving, 2:45-3:30
with Rick Williams
- Hard Suits, Heads-Up Displays, And Other Hot Stuff, 3:30-4:15
with Robert Wass, Institute of Diving Technology
Colloquium - Meet With The Techsperts 4:15-5:30
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WORKSHOPS
Saturday 7 October
- Medicine & Physiology of Diving - UHMS benefit. 8:30-5:30. New Hope Room
- Visual Cylinder Inspection, with Dale Fox 9-5. Allentown Room
- CPR with Jim Hoser. American Heart Association certification. 9-5.
Pittsburg Room
- IANTD Nitrox Diver, with Bobby Pritchard 9-2.Scranton Corridor (1/2).
- IANTD Nitrox Instructor Crossover 2-6 and Sunday all day 9-5. Scranton
Corridor (1/2).
SUNDAY 18 October
- Techs/Mechs Technical Diving Symposium 8:30-5:30. New Hope Room.
- Live-action, hands-on CPR and First Aid, with Lifeguard Systems 9-5.
Allentown Room.
- Photography, with Pete Nawrocky and Herb Seegars. Half day, 9-2. Pittsburg
Room.
- Nitrox Instructor Crossover 2-6 Saturday and Sunday all day 9-5. Scranton
Corridor (1/2).
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Bloodmobile Sunday 8 Oct 1995. 10-3.
Save a life *personally* at the show - Red Cross Bloodmobile
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