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publicly accessible resources. This has recently become true of a very valuable resource for divers. Diving medicine is a niche specialty and has only two journals dedicated to the subject in their entirety: Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine (DHM) published jointly by the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) and the European Underwater and Baromedical Society; and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (UHM) published by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society in the USA. Part of the reason for writing an article of this nature at this time is that I have just taken over as the editor of DHM and I wanted to alert Dive New Zealand readers to its potential interest for those interested in advanced knowledge. DHM is now an exclusively electronic publication. It is published every 3 months and contains about eight scientific articles per issue. The full issues (from 2012 to March 2017) to can be downloaded by anyone from the SPUMS website: https://www.spums.org.au SPUMS members can download full issues right up to the present. In addition, individual articles from March 2017 onwards are available through an on-line repository called Pubmed Central. The most recent year of articles are embargoed (and are available only to members through the website above). But anyone can access articles that are over a year old. As examples, here are links to a few that have become available recently. Spisni E, et al. A comparative evaluation of two decompression procedures for technical diving using inflammatory responses: compartmental versus ratio deco. Diving Hyperb Med. 2017;47:9-16. This study compared post-dive bubble production and inflammatory markers in human divers following dives to the same depth and bottom time with decompression according to a Buhlmann profile (less deep stops) with ratio deco (more deep stops). The findings were interesting! Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6147226/ Sharp FC and Sayer MDJ. A technical diving related burns case: treatment in a remote location. Diving Hyperb Med. 2017;47:127-130. This was a report of an oxygen fire and the resulting injuries in a rebreather accident at Truk Lagoon. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6147225/ Massey H et al. Lost at sea: the medicine, physiology and psychology of prolonged immersion. Diving Hyperb Med. 2017;47:239-247. This is a report of a diver who was lost at sea (in a wet suit) for 75 hours off the New Zealand coast, and who survived. The article reviews the physiology and psychology of prolonged immersion. I will be maintaining a log of these and other high interest articles as they become available on Pubmed Central on the SPUMS Facebook page, so check in there from time to time for more links like the ones in this article. https://www.facebook.com/divingandhyperbaricmedicine/ Divers can also consider joining SPUMS as associate members for direct access to all articles on the journal website. The cost is small, and there are other benefits like attendance at the Society’s meetings which are highly educational, fun, and always incorporate good diving. Honiara, Solomon Is this year in May, and Tutukaka NZ in 2020. See the society website: https://www.spums.org.au/

PROFESSOR SIMON MITCHELL MB ChB, PhD, DipOccMed, DipAdvDHM (ANZCA), FUHM, FANZCA Simon works as an anaesthesiologist at Auckland City Hospital and is Professor of Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland. He provides on-call cover for the diving emergency service in New Zealand. He is widely published with two books and over 160 scientific journal papers or book chapters. He co authored the hyperbaric and diving medicine chapter for the last four editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. He has been Editor-in Chief of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal since 2019. He has twice been Vice President of the UHMS and in 2010 received the society’s Behnke Award for contributions to the science of diving. Simon has a long career in sport, scientific, commercial, and military diving. He was first to dive and identify Zealand, including one in 2002 which was the deepest wreck dive undertaken at the time. He was conferred Fellowship of the Explorers’ Club of New York in 2006, and was the Rolex Diver of the Year in 2015. His most recent expeditions were the Pearse Resurgence cave exploration (New Zealand) in 2020, a project to take arterial blood gas specimens from an elite freediver at 60m 2021, and hunted for a shipwreck in the sub-Antarctic in 2022. three historically significant deep shipwrecks in Australia and New

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