Cold Water Diving for Science

Abstract

These proceedings contain 22 extended abstracts of papers presented before Cold Water Diving for Science, the 21 st Annual Scientific Diving Symposium sponsored by the American Academy of Underwater Sciences. The symposium was held September 19-23, 2001, at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska. The first part of the program, a technical forum on cold water diving, enabled several invited experts in the field to share their knowledge and experience, to result in another AAUS scientific diving resource document Cold Water Diving for Science: Tips, Techniques and Training, a post-symposium publication. The second part of the program, these proceedings, included a variety of interdisciplinary presentations, most relevant to cold water diving. This is the third AAUS proceedings to focus on cold water diving for science. The first was Coldwater Diving for Science 1987 (Michael A. Lang, Editor), held at the University of Washington. It resulted in Special Session on Coldwater Diving (Michael A. Lang and Charles T. Mitchell, editors) as well as the regular proceedings. The second proceedings was the AAUS Polar Diving Workshop (Michael A. Lang and James R. Stewart, editors), held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in May 1991. The rationale for revisiting cold water diving for science is to update the scientific diving community on recent advances made in gear, techniques, and training necessary to conduct research in such an extreme environment. The symposium was hosted by the Alaska SeaLife Center; Prince Will