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Meet Massimo Garbo and Eugenio Mongelli, pioneers in diving safety instrumentation. Representing CNS International and TEMC DEOX, they’ve developed a new multi-sensor analyzer for hyperbaric environments. Their presentation, A field trip to divers safety-enhancing technology, will introduce a compact and highly capable gas monitoring unit capable of measuring O₂, CO₂, humidity, temperature, pressure, H₂S, and hydrocarbons in real-time. Successfully tested in hyperbaric environments and now in use offshore Qatar, this innovation highlights the continued progress toward data-rich, safety-first commercial 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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Dan Medical has been at the forefront of diver medical support for years with the DMAS system and is always striving to develop additional functionality and improvements.

Steve Sheppard has been an avid supporter of Dan medical and has been of influence in encouraging the DMAS equipment to be on ever sat dive site

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

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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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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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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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