Timothy Wakefield, U.S. Navy veteran and LSU graduate, is founder/CEO of Dead Calm Seas Marine Services (DCS), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business. Recognized as an industry innovator, he emphasizes safety, quality, and diver care. DCS offers comprehensive marine services, while his 2023 co-founded venture, RTI Onshore, supports global subsea telecom and energy infrastructure.

His presentation compares NORSOK diving regulations with ADCI standards in U.S. commercial diving. It examines benefits like improved safety culture and documentation versus challenges of cost and adoption. Attendees will gain insights on overlaps, differences, and practical implications, helping shape compliance strategies, client discussions, and best practices in offshore diving.

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Earl Toups, Hyperbaric Welding & NDT Manager at DCN Diving, is a Chartered Engineer with over 30 years of offshore welding experience. He holds an MSc in Welding Engineering and is a Senior Member of TWI. As the creator of the patented DCN Micro-Habitat, he revolutionized dry hyperbaric welding, cutting repair costs by over 50%. Earl influences industry standards through ISO and AWS technical committees for underwater welding. His expertise in hyperbaric welding and NDT continues to advance efficiency, safety, and quality in subsea welding operations.

The presentationwill explore the various hyperbaric welding methods available for subseastructural repairs, with a focus on recent applications of micro-habitat drywelding for repairing primary jacket members.

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Armin began as a commercial diver in 1997 and progressed to become a saturation diver and later a supervisor.

In 2009, he transitioned into tunneling projects, starting with a project in Barcelona, where he utilized trimix techniques at depths of up to 52 meters seawater (m.s.w.).

From 2015 to 2018, he was in charge of saturation operations for tunneling projects in Hong Kong. Currently, Armin is involved in the Great Lakes Tunnel Project, applying advanced deep saturation techniques at depths reaching up to 200 m.s.w.

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DanMedical has been at the forefront of diver medical support for years with the D-MAS system and is always striving to develop additional functionality and improvements.

Steve Sheppard has been an avid supporter of DanMedical and has been of influence in encouraging the D-MAS equipment to be on every sat dive site.

In response to requests from Industry, DanMedical has been working on additional features for the D-MAS system such as ultrasound. Furthermore, equipment under development includes defibrillators and simple ventilators.

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The management of cardiorespiratory arrest in a diving bell presents multiple clinical, technical, and environmental considerations that standard resuscitation algorithms do not address, and no situation-specific algorithm exists. The first algorithm to guide the delivery of resuscitation in a diving bell is published. It incorporates adapted ALS principles and available data concerning compression technique effectiveness, and was informed by industry and clinical expertise. It provides guiding principles that can be adapted to setting-specific needs, and we would encourage its industry-wide international adoption.

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Dr Jan Risberg is an experienced physician and researcher in diving and hyperbaric medicine with over three decades of expertise (since 1988). He holds a PhD in experimental hyperbaric physiology, focusing on blood circulation in animal diving models. Jan served as Head of Submarine and Diving Medicine in the Royal Norwegian Navy until 2021. Jan is currently active as a diving physician at NUI and consultant at Haukeland University Hospital, as well as for multiple Norwegian diving contractors and oil & gas operators. First author of the official Norwegian diving and treatment tables and author of numerous scientific publications on diving physiology and medicine.

Together with four co-authors (JE Blatteau, SHLygre, L Matity and J Meintjes) Jan has completed a systematic literature reviewand meta-analysis investigating the effect of treatment delay on the outcome of divers suffering decompression sickness. This presentation will review thefindings of 32 eligible studies.

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Fraser is a degree-qualified engineer  with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering and over a decade of experience in  delivering biomedical research and development projects. He currently leads  the Biometrics & Condition Monitoring team at JFD, where he is  responsible for driving the development of innovative biomedical products  across the company’s portfolio.

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Abbie Coutts (TechnipFMC) is a nurse with 25 years of experience in the NHS. Having worked in acute and intensive care environments, she has witnessed first hand the impact of stress and burnout on healthcare professionals. Abbie is deeply committed to ensuring that those on the front lines are the ones shaping the narrative, emphasising the importance of both physical and mental health.

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Stuart Cowie (TechnipFMC) is a closed bell diving supervisor at TechnipFMC. He began his offshore career as a rigger at age 21 before retraining as a saturation diver in 2007. His diving expertise has been used on projects worldwide. He is a passionate mental health advocate and promotes awareness to challenge the stigma surrounding mental health.

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Amanda Sordes is Executive director of The Australian Diver Accreditation Scheme (ADAS). She has significant experience as an occupational diver, onshore supervisor, diving safety officer and diver trainer. She has worked across various industries including offshore,onshore, aquarium and scientific diving. She joined the ADAS Board in 2016 and became Executive Director in 2020.

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Phil Newsum is a Commercial Diver, Supervisor, BA–English, MS–Secondary Education (Administration), graduate of Divers Institute of Technology and a Commerecial Dive School Instructor. The presentation will cover the new revisions to the ADCI International Consensus Standards for Commercial Diving and Underwater Operations (ed. 6.5), the draft of the new ANSI/ACDCI requirements for commercial diver training, the Association’s new CV and certification verification Tool (Skill N Depth), and the new requirements for ADCI Diving Safety Management Systems

Øyvind Loennechen is Principal Engineer at Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil).

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Jord LUCAS has been with TOTAL ENERGIES since 2014, where he currently oversees the Diving and ROV segments. Before joining TOTAL ENERGIES, Jord spent over 20 years in the French Navy as EOD diver and Diving Military Expert, holding the position of Diving Superintendentat the Navy HQ. Lucas will be sharing the update and status of the currentinitiatives coming from the IOGP diving sub-committee (DOSC) and theInternational Diving Industry Forum (IDIF): 

·       Guidancerevision and update 

·       ShipHusbandry Expert Group 

Discussed topics at the IOGP/IDIF meetings.

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Ms. Chen Liping completed undergraduate studies in Economic  Management at the Party School  of Beijing Municipal  Committee of C.P.C. She joined the CDSA in 2012 and has served as Deputy  Secretary-General and then Secretary-General. She currently holds the  position of Vice President and Secretary-General.

Ms. Dong Xuanxuan studied Maritime Law at Dalian Maritime  University and later at Shanghai Maritime University, where she obtained a  Master of Law degree. She joined the CDSA in 2024 and currently serves as Deputy Director of the International  Cooperation and Maritime Affairs Department.

In the speech, Ms.Chen Liping will present an overview of China's rapidly evolving diving, salvage, and underwater engineering sector. She will introduce the pivotal role played by the China Diving and Salvage Association (CDSA) in fostering domestic standards, safety, and technological exchange. The address will highlight significant growth opportunities within China's market and extend concrete proposals for international collaboration, particularly in deep-water operations and sustainability. Key recommendations will focus on joint technological R&D,establishing global emergency response protocols, and investing in the next generation of industry talent to ensure a safe and sustainable future for the global underwater community.

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June 2001 to Present – MD Strategic Offshore Research

For over 35 years, Ian have been a dedicated market analyst for the offshore subsea and construction markets, with a particular focus on the subsea support vessels. He can offer a level of market opinion and understanding which is second to none. He has tracked the fast-moving subsea market on a daily basis my entire career, originally with what is now ODS-Petrodata/IHS/S&P.

Presentation updates North Sea DSV demand/supply, tonnage becoming a global standard, fleet age changes, and newbuild shortages. Also covers subsea-renewables interaction now and future.

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Lino Brogneri is the founder of LOGiiT, with over two decades of experience in the sector, Lino began his career as a commercial diver and rigger, working across global regions before moving into supervisory roles. In 2018, while still offshore, he launched his first technology platform focused on recruitment for the Oil& Gas sector. He later founded LOGiiT in 2021, bringing his operational insight into the digital transformation space.

Today, he leads LOGiiT’s mission to improve safety, data integrity, and sustainability through secure and compliant digital systems

Explore the offshore industry’s digital evolution—focusing on data access, OCR-recovered records, GDPR compliance, secure adoption, and sustainability. A practical, non-commercial look at how digital tools unlock safer, smarter operations.

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Mr Lundseng has military background as an officer, aviation medicine specialist and pilot. Heavily involved in implementation of new technology with the F35 program in the US and in Norway subsequently.  Now responsible diving doctor in Equinor, but is here today as Project Lead for the Joint Industry Project to revitalize hyperbaric medicine research in Norway and ensure recruitment of new physicians. He will be presenting presenting the background, framework and ambition for the Joint Industry Project in Hyperbaric Medicine in Norway.

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We have conducted an industry initiative to trace the history, keep the lessons learned, and describe the current practice of commercial saturation diving. Our objective is to share the information through scientific publications.

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Mark has over 30 years of diving industryexperience as a diver and supervisor. After a successful offshore career, he obtained a master’s degree in management and came ‘onshore’ to take on roles as project, operational and diving management. His current role is Diving Manager and Subject Matter Expert for DEEP Missions.

Mark will give an overview of DEEP; a research organization established to enhance the development and commercial deployment of novel engineered and perational systems enabling humans to live, work and thrive within the planet's oceans, for extended periods and autonomously.

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