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Daytime Program

Session 1:
Saturday AM Presentations

 

Room Gimbel Cousteau Doc Edgerton
Topic Dive Safety/Medical Marine Science and Technology Diving North America
Room Chair Monty Fitzpatrick Marty Klein Amy Giannotti
9 - 9:45 Risk Management for Diving Operations - Giorgio Caramanna PROTEUS™ the first International Space Station in the Ocean - Fabien Cousteau, Brian Helmuth, Mark Patterson The Oliver Mowat – The Race Against Time - Kayla Martin
10 - 10:45 Freediving Safety for the Community -- in competition and at play - Francesca Koe Current Research in Diver Health and Performance - Dawn Kernagis  The Unique Life within Canada's Longest Underwater Cave - Jill Heinerth
11 - 11:45 WHO’S YOUR BUDDY? The Role, Duties, And Liabilities Of A Buddy Diver - Ronald Weller Marine Science Fiction into Marine Science Reality: How DEEP and its Sentinel underwater habitat will change the oceans and the future of exploration - Kirk Krack The Channel Islands: California’s Underwater Jungle - Michael Salvarezza and Christopher Weaver
Session 2:
Saturday PM Presentations
Room Gimbel Cousteau Doc Edgerton
Topic Rebreathers Wrecks/Maritime History Photo/Video
Room Chair Vin Malkoski Rob Robison Paul Cater Deaton
1 - 1:45 Designing and building a carbon fiber rebreather chassis - Eric Takakjian The wreck of the USS Emmons - Mike Boring  Pushing the limits of underwater photography with creative in-camera techniques, tools and tricks. - Ron Watkins 
2- 2:45 Rebreather Forum 4 Consensus Priorities and Recommendations - Neal Pollock The wreck of Viminale: an Italian-American tale - Andrea Murdock Alpini  My Work as a Natural History Cinematographer - Maxwel Hohn
3 - 3:45 Truk Lagoon Vs. Bikini Atoll  -  Aron Arngimsson Warship discovery around the British Isles - Rick Ayrton Developing an Eye for Ideas - Jake Stout 
4 - 4:45 Exploring mesophotic biodiversity using closed-circuit rebreathers - Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley The Sub No One Wanted - Richard Simon  Brazil’s Wild Waters - Cristian Dimitrius 
Session 3:
Sunday AM Presentations
Room Gimbel Cousteau Doc Edgerton
Topic BSR at 70 Wrecks/Maritime History Sharks
Room Chair George Buckley Bill Vanderclock

Mark Dixon
9:30 - 10:15 70 Years of Shipwreck Discovery - Jennifer Sellittii Preserving History Beneath the Waves: Exploring Great Lakes Historical Shipwrecks in Remote Locations and Popular Sites - Gregory Such Higher-order Cognition and Possible Self-Recognition in Caribbean Reef Sharks - Mark Seth Lender
10 :30 - 11:15 Boston Sea Rovers Internship at 20 - Brady Watson - 20th BSR Intern The Diamond Shoals Light Vessel Number 71 - Marc Corbett, Panda Daniels, and Jay King Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark - Greg Skomal
11:30 - 12:15 Diving beyond Borders - Nancy McGee The Tragic Loss of the Lady Mary - Paul Whittaker Filming Sharks -Joe Romeiro
Session 4:
Sunday PM Presentation
Room Gimbel Cousteau Doc Edgerton
Topic Marine Conservation Natural History  Exotic Expeditons 
Room Chair Holly Bourbon   

Robbie Lack

 Bill Vanderclock
1 - 1:45 Paradise Polluted: Pacific Plastic - Amy Giannotti  Extravagant Octopus Mysteries Newly Revealed - Roger Hanlon Diving into the Past - Andrea and Tomas Kiss
2- 2:45 Citizen Science and Coral Ecosystem Monitoring - Chris Kraska Increase Your Diving Pleasure and Get the Money Shots – Animal Behavior
Jim and Pat Stayer		 10 Days on Ebeye: Lessons from remote dive travel gone somewhat sideways - Becca Boring 
3 - 3:45 How Citizen Scientists Can Change the World - Faith Ortins Tomorrow, THE MARA- Kenya and Zanzibar from Under the Bubbles and Up in the Air - Paul Cater Deaton Open Circuit and Rebreather diving in the Galápagos Islands - Aron Arngimsson 

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