BHA 2007 Annual Meeting Starts In Oban

The 2007 annual meeting of the British Hyperbaric Association starts today in Oban, on the west coast of Scotland with the pre meeting diving taking place.
The meeting starts proper on the 1st November and finishes on the 4th November with the BHA AGM.

Cayman Brac To Get Recompression Chamber

Diving related illnesses in Cayman Brac will soon be quicker and easier to treat when a recompression chamber should become operational on the island.
The recompression chamber was brought onto Cayman Brac by Cayman Hyperbaric Services in November 2006. It has however taken until now for the company to build a facility to house the chamber and prepare it for commissioning.
Cayman Hyperbaric Services has had an extension built onto the east end of the Faith Hospital in Cayman Brac to house the hyperbaric unit.
The chamber is a two–lock multi–place chamber, a smaller version of the one operating at the George Town Hospital on Grand Cayman. That chamber is also run by Cayman Hyperbaric Services.
It is hoped that patients can be taken there by 1 January.

Diver Airlifted To Hospital

A 22-year-old man who had been diving in St Abbs Harbour, north of Eyemouth had to be taken by RAF helicopter to the hyperbaric medical facility in Aberdeen when showed signs of decompression sickness.

U-boat Diver's Body Recovered

The body of Michael Hanrahan, a 45 year old father of four children from Dublin, who died at the site of a sunken German U-boat U-778 has been recovered.
Mr Hanrahan died during a dive on the U-boat which is 16 miles off Malin Head, County Donegal.
The dive team was filming the U-boat while assessing the chances of recovering it.
The boat is lying in about 70 metres of water.
The U-boat, which did not see any war action, sank while being towed from Scotland to Londonderry to be scrapped.
Derry City Council plans to raise U-778 and house it in a museum.