
11/22/2024
Today is National Scientific Diving Day.
It’s also the 40th anniversary of recognition in federal regulations distinguishing occupational scientific diving from other commercial/occupational diving. Without that distinction, scientific diving would have been and today would be significantly curtailed - completely shut down in many instances.
I’m proud to have represented scientific divers - primarily in academia and government agencies - in making that distinction and providing support for it more than four decades ago. The American Academy of Underwater Sciences was born of those efforts.
Some of us are not trying to keep our heads above water.