User:Rosemary E Lunn/Lamar Hires

Lamar Hires is a North American pioneering technical diver and record setting cave diver. Hires is one of the main architects behind the side mount diving system of diving.

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Born in Edmonton, Canada, he completed a bachelor's degree in zoology, the first three years at University of Alberta and the final year at the University of British Columbia. After completing a Master's degree he served as diving officer at the University of British Columbia for almost five years. He then moved to Florida and completed a doctorate in exercise physiology/environmental physiology at Florida State University.

http://eurotek.uk.com/speakers/lamar-hires-eurotek-speaker.php

Positions

 * IANTD International Rebreather Advisor Board

National Speleological Society, Chairman (1992-1994) National Speleological Society, Training Chairman (1987-1992) International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery (IUCRR) Training Coordinator (current) Contributing writer for Advanced Diver Magazine, Divers Magazine, Scuba Times and Sport Diver Magazine Contributing author NSS-CDS Cave Diving Manual and IANTD Technical Divers Encyclopedia Instructor: IANTD, NSS-CDS, SDI, TDI

Pollock is the Research Director at Divers Alert Network, a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology at Duke University Medical Center, a member of the Board of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of Divewise, chair of the International Breath Hold Blackout Task Force, and a member of Editorial Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine.

His academic training is in zoology/marine science, exercise physiology and environmental physiology; his research interests focus on human health and safety in extreme environments. Neal developed and maintains a breath-hold incident database for DAN that includes cases from 2004 forward. Summaries and case reports have appeared in DAN annual reports since 2005 and a variety of other publications. Neal co-organised and edited the proceedings of the 2005 Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society / Divers Alert Network 'Diabetes and Recreational Diving: Guidelines For The Future Workshop. He co-chaired the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society / Divers Alert Network 2006 breath-hold workshop and co-edited the proceedings published from that meeting. Neal was part of organising team behind the 2012 international safety symposium; Rebreather Forum 3 and co-edited the subsequent proceedings.

Works





 * Brueggeman P, Pollock Neal W, eds. Diving for Science 2008. Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences 27th Symposium. Dauphin Island, AL: AAUS







Systems Mapped

 * 1982 Rock Bluff, Florida*
 * 1984 Devil’s Ear, Florida*
 * 1985 Siphon Creek Rise Spring, Florida*
 * 1985 Bonnet Springs, Florida*
 * 1986 Little River, Florida*
 * 1986 Section 26, Alabama*
 * 1986 Cow Springs, Florida*
 * 1989 Suwanacoochee/Edwards, Florida*
 * 1989 Telford/Luraville Springs, Florida*
 * 1990 Silver Glen, Florida*
 * 1994 Blue Springs, Tennessee*
 * 1995 Akka, Shigawatari, Ryusendo Caves, Japan*
 * 2000 Unnamed sinkholes, Dominican Republic*
 * 2007 Rose Sink*

Awards

 * National Speleological Society. Lifetime Fellow Award, 1995


 * Florida Springs Exploration Award, 2000*


 * TEKDiveUSA Diver of the Conference Award, May 2014


 * EUROTEK Lifetime Achievement Award, September 2014