For the last month the "Expeditions" blog on the
Scientific American website has run an excellent series on the University of Southern California Dornsife Scientific Research Diving program. The May 4 installment covers the
USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber. Written by dive safety officer Gerry Smith, the
short piece nicely summarizes the center's important role in treating recreational and scientific divers and others who suffer
decompression sickness and
air or gas embolism. We've
written before about USC Catalina but didn't know the center is funded equally by the Los Angeles County Medical
Alert Center and the local diving community and staffed 24/7 by a full-time director, a part-time technician, and some 70 volunteers.
[Photo: Karl Huggins]
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