Webchat Interview With Peter Buzzacott

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The first interview in the CCRExplorers.com webchat series will be with Peter Buzzacott from DAN. Peter is an avid technical diver, Director of Injury Monitoring and Prevention at Divers Alert Network and had nine papers published last year and six in 2015. He recently participated in a cave diving expedition in China and was made a Guest Professor at Second Military Medical University in Shanghai, plus cave diving in Missouri, Mexico, Georgia, and trips to Florida every few months. Living the dream...

We are excited to talk with Peter and want to gather questions from our CCRExplorers. Please post questions and topics of interest for Peter on this thread.
 
OK, I'll get the ball rolling here:

1. Peter, I've heard several comments from you over the past several months indicating that diet may play a role in decompression efficiency. Can you please comment about specific dietary items and how they may come into play when evaluating an individual's susceptibility to decompression illness?
 
What would you say are the top 10 articles every CCR diver should read? The ones CCR instructors should be handing out during training.
 
Is there any updated evidence re: diving during pregnancy (specifically the the effect of diving on fetal development)?

Also, as a CO2 retainer, why doesn't my body/brain automatically increase ventilation sufficiently?
 
I would be interested in hearing Peter's research on the oxygen window. I'd also like to hear about the new information on the first supplement proven to protect against DCS.
 
Has there been any research on redefining prerequisites for certain courses or certain types/levels of diving?

It is common place to see a simple minimum number of dives or hours before processing to a level of training that allows you to go deeper, use more complex breathing mixes/dive plans or go into overhead/more complex overhead environments. However as the saying goes it is not practice that makes perfect, but perfect practice that makes perfect. Simply stating a number of dives or hours does not dictate relevant experience at all.

Could there be a knowledge or in-water skill set demonstration that enables the acceptance to a certain course or inclusion of a certain dive charter? Could this be standardized from a safety and equity standpoint? There must be similar progress in other disciplines.
 
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