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friday, Nov. 11
09:00-12:00
Project Baseline Workshop
Join Project Baseline Lead, Todd Kincaid and Coordinator, Kady Smith in
a workshop about GUE’s global conservation initiative. Participants will learn how
to set up their own local projects and upload their findings to the Project Baseline
Google Earth template. Cost: Free
09:00-17:00 Haithabu, Laboe and IFM-GEOMAR Field Trip
Haithabu is the biggest Viking Age settlement in the world, a professional
archaeologist will lead the group through the museum and reconstructed village.
Laboe is a warship museum with an original WWII U-boat that can be
explored. The museum also has a watchtower with a great view of the Kiel fjord.
IFM-GEOMAR is an institute whose mandate is the interdisciplinary
investigation of all relevant aspects of modern marine sciences, from sea floor
geology to marine meteorology. Research is conducted worldwide in all oceans.
Cost: $30
18:00 Social sponsored by GUE and Baltic Dive Center
Cost: $20
Saturday, Nov. 12
08:00 Continental Breakfast
08:00 Registration & Poster Sessions
09:30 How did we get here?
— Jarrod Jablonski
10:00 The Extinction of Scuba Diving
— Thomas Dederichs
10:45 Cutting-Edge Decompression Theory — Dr. JP Imbert
11:00 Break
11:15 Cousteau Divers— Pierre-Yves Cousteau
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Physiological Complications During
Closed-Circuit Diving — Dr. Andreas Koch
11:45 Rebreathers: Standard Equipment or Specialized Tool?
-Benefits to Diving Rebreathers
— Phil Short
-Risks of Using Rebreathers
— Jarrod Jablonski
-Panel discussion on diving rebreathers — Rebreather divers
15:45 Break
16:15-17:15
The discovery of the Quatenflosser, a Prehistoric Fish
— Dr. Hans Fricke
Wrecks of the Baltic Sea
— Richard Lundgren
The Future Ocean: Too Warm, Too High, Too Acidic
— Dr. Martin Visbeck
17:15-18:15
Thresher Shark Project
— Simon Oliver
Castleguard - Canadian Cave Project
— Martin Groves
Underwater Photography Around the Globe
— Ulrich Kunz
19:30 Banquet dinner
20:30 Diving Quickies: Presenting the top short-video submissions
of global diving projects
Sunday, Nov. 13
08:00 Continental Breakfast
08:30 Missed Stops, Accidental Ascent, and In-water Recompression
— Dr. Simon Mitchell
09:15 Effect of Pre-dive Exercise on Bubbles — Dr. Alf Brubback
10:00 Break
10:30 Sea Shepherd: Protecting Our Oceans
— Laurens de Groot
11:15 Disputed Diving Practices: Industry Policy or Personal Preference?
Conversations on contentious practices including deep air, solo diving, and the use of decompression computers
-Benefits to Diving Air
-Risks of Using Deep Air
— Dr. Simon Mitchell
-Panel discussion on diving practices — Agency Representatives*
12:45 Break
13:15 Human Factors as a Cause for Diving Accidents
— Gareth Lock
14:00 Where Do We Go From Here?
— Jarrod Jablonski
Panel discussionon the future of Scuba — Agency Representatives*
15:30 Closing
16:00-17:00
An Introduction to Cave Diving
— David Rhea
Cold-Water Diving Strategies
— Richard Lundgren
Rebreather Diving: Is it right for me?
— Phil Short
17:00-18:00
The Role of Aquariums in Aquatic Preservation — Dr. Nicole Kube
Cave Diving in the UK
— Christine Grosart
Underwater Archaeological Research Projects at Kiel University
— Florian Huber
16:00-19:00
Project Baseline Workshop
— Kady Smith &
Todd Kincaid
* (CMAS, GUE, IANTD, NAUI, PADI, TDI)