Below is a brief history of SPUMS, including dates and ExCom details for each year.
1971
Below is a brief history of SPUMS, including dates and ExCom details for each year.
1971
To facilitate the study of all aspects of underwater and hyperbaric medicine, to provide information on underwater and hyperbaric medicine, to publish a journal and to convene members of the Society annually at a scientific conference.
The next issue of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Volume 54 (1) March is available now via your society login.
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Older issues can be accessed free of charge at the Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal website.
Below is a brief history of SPUMS, including dates and ExCom details for each year.
1971
Below is a brief history of SPUMS, including dates and ExCom details for each year.
1971
The first SPUMS Annual Scientific Meeting was held on Heron Island in June of 1972. SPUMS has convened an ASM every year since, traveling to oceanic paradises throughout the Indo-Pacific.
SPUMS plays a pivotal role in diving safety in Australia as an NGO, advising on State and Federal legislation and is represented on several Australian Standards committees.
SPUMS has a membership of aprroximately 408, including physicians working in hyperbaric units, navy diving medical officers, emergency, ear nose throat and respiratory specialists, anaesthetists, psychiatrists, general practitioners.