Grants awarded

Research & Safety Promotion Grants  

There are currently three main categories of grants: 

1. Research grants, 

2. Diving Safety promotion grants (which include subsidies for AED and oxygen units), and 

3. Diving Medical Education Grants. 

We have had quite a few applications for these grants (discussed in detail below) but our challenge remains to encourage many more, and in a range of relevant areas. 

We have also offered support to worthy causes consistent with our mission to reduce diving‐ related morbidity and mortality. 

Grant                                                                                                             

Diving Emergency Service Scholarship ($4,000)

Online gas contamination program (DAN America) ($15,000)

DCI promotion (books)  ($3,000)

Online dive medical references uploading (Rubicon Foundation) 1,000

Research – Diver evacuation in Qld (Townsville Hospital) ($20,398)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

Sponsorship (Hyperbaric Nurses & Technician Association) ($1,500)

Dive Safety Seminar (POW Hospital HBO Unit) ($1,500)

Dive safety/medicine books (HMAS Penguin SUM) ($300)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

Sponsorship (Hyperbaric Nurses & Technician Association) ($1,500)

NZ dive fatalities investigation grant ($412)

Risk Assessment & safety equipment (Reefcheck Australia) ($3,280)    

NQUEC Accident flowchart printing (NQUEC) ($550)        

Cave rescue equipment (CDAA) ($15,000)

SSBA equipment inspection equipment ($18,402)

Online dive medical references uploading (SPUMS) ($4,900)

Research - Medications & diving (Austin Health) ($6,265)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

Support for Diving Medicine Course  (Fiona Stanley Hospital) ($2,000)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

Part scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($2,600)

Part scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($2,600)

Part scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($2,600)

Uploading back issues of dive medical journal (SPUMS) ($9,310)

Research – CO2 narcosis (Auckland University) ($3,110)_

AED grant (dive club) ($1,250)    

AED grant (dive club) ($1,250)

AED grant (CDAA) ($1,250)    

AED grant (dive club) ($1,250)

AED grant (dive club) ($1,250)

AED grant (dive club) ($1,250)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)    

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

Part AED grant (dive club)  ($800)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

Ascent guide for indigenous fisher-divers (Curtin University) ($7,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

SScholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

AED grant (dive club) ($1,250)

Oxygen Unit donation (dive club) ($500)

Part scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($2,750)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($500)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($500)

Support for Diving Medicine Course  (Fiona Stanley Hospital) ($2,200)

AED grant (dive club) ($1,250)

Course sponsorship ($2,000)

Part scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($2,500)

Oxygen units subsidy ($900)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Subsidy for SPUMS Journal  ($10,000 ($50,000 over 5 years))

Subsidy for SPUMS website ($13,000)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

DMO course Dux prize ($300)

Electronic diver monitoring (wet dive in hyperbaric chamber) ($30,000)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

HTNA sponsorship ($1,500)

Part scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($2,600)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

AED grant (dive operator) ($1,000)

Oxygen unit subsidy ($550)

Scholarship for doctor to attend Diving Medicine Course ($5,000)

 

 In addition, the ADSF has been involved in a variety of Dive Safety Promotions, including the publication of The Diving Emergency Handbook, Decompression Illness, Am I Fit to Dive, and Diving First Aid Management Slates (for both Australia and New Zealand) which have been freely distributed to dive clubs and dive operators throughout Australia and New Zealand.

 

Internal research  

The ADSF has been acknowledged as supporting multiple published research papers, as indicated below. 

  • Meehan D, Smart D, Lippmann J. Determining best practice for technical assessment of hookah surface supply diving equipment during diving fatality investigation. Diving Hyperb Med. In review.
  • Lippmann J. A review of scuba diving and snorkelling fatalities in Queensland, 2000 to 2019. Diving Hyperb Med. 2022; 52:108-117.
  • Lippmann J, Millar I. Severe carbon monoxide poisonings of scuba divers in the Asia-Pacific region - Cases and review of causation. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2022; 49(3): 341-353.
  • Lippmann J, Lawrence C, Davis M. Scuba diving-related fatalities in New Zealand, 2007 to 2016. Diving Hyperb Med. 2021; 51: in press.
  • Lippmann J, Bennett M, Mitchell SJ. ANZCOR Guideline 9.3.5 – First aid and resuscitation for divers who have breathed compressed gas. Melbourne: Australian and New Zealand Resuscitation Council (ANZCOR) [Internet]; 2021. [cited 2021 May 15]. Available from: https://resus.org.au/guidelines.
  • Dunne CL, Madill J, Peden AE, Valesco B, Lippmann J, Szpilman D, Queiroga AC. An underappreciated cause of ocean-related fatalities: A systematic review on the epidemiology, risk factors, and treatment of snorkelling-related drowning. Resuscitation Plus 2021. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266652042100028X?via%3Dihub.
  • Taylor SE, Taylor DM, Pisasale D, Booth K, Lippmann J. Regular medication use by active scuba divers with a declared comorbid medical condition and victims of scuba and snorkelling-related fatalities. Diving Hyperb Med. 2021 Sep 30;51:264-270. doi: 10.28920/dhm51.3.264-270. PMID: 34547777.
  • Lippmann J, Lawrence C, Davis M. Snorkelling and breath-hold diving fatalities in New Zealand, 2007 to 2016. Diving Hyperb Med. 2021; 51. Accepted
  • Lippmann J. Fatalities involving divers using surface-supplied breathing apparatus in Australia, 1965 to 2019. Diving Hyperb Med. 2021; 51. Accepted.
  • Scarf C, Fock A, Lippmann J. A review of diving practices and outcomes following the diagnosis of a persistent foramen ovale in compressed air divers. Diving Hyperb Med. 2020. Diving Hyperb Med. 2010; 50:358-63.
  • Lippmann J, Taylor D McD. Scuba diving fatalities in Australia, 2001 to 2013 – chain of events analysis. Diving Hyperb Med. 2020; 50:221-30.
  • Lippmann J, Taylor D McD. Medical conditions in scuba diving fatality victims in Australia, 2001 to 2013. Diving Hyperb Med. 2020; 50 (2):98-104.
  • Lippmann J, Taylor D McD, Stevenson C. Scuba diving fatalities in Australia, 2001-2013. Diver demographics and characteristics. Diving Hyperb Med. 2020. 50 (2):105-14.
  • Lippmann J. Rescue and resuscitation factors in scuba diving and snorkelling fatalities in Australia, 2001 to 2013. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2020;47(1):107-15.
  • Banham NDG, Lippmann J. Fatal gas embolism in a breath-hold diver. Diving Hyperb Med. 2019.49(4):213-4.

 

In addition, the ADSF was involved and acknowledged in the following publications:

  • Australian Water Safety Council (2021) Australian Water Safety Strategy 2030. Australian Water Safety Council, Sydney.
  • Cooney, N., Lippmann, J. Ellis, A., Daw, S., and Lawes, J. (2021) Coastal Safety Brief: Diving and Snorkelling. Surf Life Saving Australia: Sydney.

The Australasian Diving Safety Foundation Limited is registered as a charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission ABN 60 623 963 744.