Welcome to DMAC

Welcome to the website of the Diving Medical Advisory Committee (DMAC).

This independent body, comprising diving medical specialists from across Northern Europe, seeks to provide advice about medical and certain safety aspects of commercial diving.

About DMAC - On the following pages you can find out about the committee's aims and current work, history and its members.

Documents - a range of documents is available for download.

• DMAC Guidance - a range of guidance on medical and certain safety aspects of commercial diving
• DMAC Position Statements
• Third-party initiatives - external documents of interest to the diving industry.

Courses - Details on DMAC/EDTCmed approval of courses in diving medicine, including the relevant guidance document and details on recognised courses.

Finally, a wide collection of links to related websites has been assembled, which we invite users to add to.

We hope you will find the website useful and would welcome any feedback.

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• Latest Guidance
  • DMAC 28 Rev 3 - The provision of emergency medical care for divers in saturation
  • DMAC 35 - Exposure index for pulmonary oxygen toxicity in surface-oriented diving
  • DMAC 33 - Return to diving after COVID-19 - is now withdrawn
  • DMAC 13 Rev. 3 - Fitness to return to diving after decompression illness
• DMAC position statements
  • DMAC Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination and the Offshore Energy Diving Community (October 2021)
  • DMAC statement on deep saturation diving under review in light of recent case reports
• Third-party initiativesIMCA/OLF questionnaires on long-term health surveillance of professional divers now available for download