Medical Issues
- Dive Shop or Charter Company Negligence
- Negligence Defined
- Failure to Properly Recognize and Treat Barotrauma Injuries
- Failure to Ensure Proper Training and Experience for the Dive
- Dive Planning
- Defective Rental Equipment/Bad Air
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse
- Improperly Provisioned, Equipped or Manned Vessel
- Instructors and Certifying Agencies
- Agency Negligence
- Medical Issues
- Medically Fit to Dive
- Appropriateness of Dive Tables
- Neurological Examinations
- Dysbaric Osteonecrosis
- Law and Diving
- Products Liability Law – Basic Principles
- The Strict Liability Standard
- The Negligence Standard
- Defenses to Claims of Products Liability
- Products Liability and Diving Equipment
- Technical Diving
- The Law Never Rests
- What is the Jones Act?
- Who is a Seaman?
- Comparison of Rights Under the Jones Act and State Workers’ Compensation Law
- Jones Act Death Benefits
- Control of the Vessel
- Liability Insurance
- Extras
- Cancellation Due to Weather or Rough Seas
- Selection of the Dive Site
- Anticipated Dive Profiles
- Overview of the Law
- Language and Form of Release
- Consent of the Parties Must be Freely Given
- Negligence v. Gross Negligence
- What is the Bottom Line?
Over the last fifteen years, the writers of this booklet have had occasion to question the leading hyperbaric physicians in the world on issues involving hyperbaric medicine. The following is a sample of key medical issues within the undersea and hyperbaric medical community.