Articles

In this issue: NDSSM, shore dive recalls?, Field Trainers, Tethered coms, new UDS, back-mounted BCD, ace your DUSA, hyperbaric chambers at NDC, next NDCSB meeting, T-Shirt contest, submit questions.

The NOAA Diving Center has five functioning hyperbaric chambers on site.

State-of-the-art facility in Lakeland ensures NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center will continue to provide high-quality data about our environment, including severe weather.

In this Issue: Report from the NDCSB Annual Meeting, NDC upcoming classes, NDP T-Shirt Design Contest open to NOAA Divers (you could win one!), wanted: NOAA Diver photos and stories.

In April, the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS) Dive Team and NPS divers conducted a series of survey dives to search for an invasive algae, Undaria pinnatifida.

On April 3, 2017, Robert Schwemmer, NOAA Diver and West Coast Regional Maritime Heritage Coordinator, joined NPS rangers to recover a recently discovered archaeological artifact.

NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown spent nearly 800 days at sea in three-and-a-half-year voyage

Meet Jessica Williams and discover her journey from a young weather enthusiast to a NOAA meteorologist, flight director and hurricane hunter!

The NOAA Diving Program participated in the first Rebreathers and Scientific Diving Workshop in 2015 to improve safety practices for scientific divers. A follow-up meeting will take place this summer.
