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John Lippmann

John Lippmann began diving some 38 years ago and developed an avid interest in diver rescue and first aid, decompression, deeper diving and marine animal injuries. He has been involved in researching, teaching, writing and consulting on safe diving, decompression and accident management for more than 30 years. John has specialised in certain areas including resuscitation, first aid, oxygen administration, dive rescue and various aspects of decompression.

John has authored, or co-authored, many books that have been published and distributed worldwide. These include The DAN Emergency Handbook, Deeper Into Diving, The Essentials of Deeper Sport Diving, Scuba Safety in Australia, Oxygen First Aid, First Aid & Emergency Care, Automated External Defibrillators, Advanced Oxygen First Aid, Basic Life Support, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, the Ambulance Service Victoria First Aid Training Manual, and others. John's articles and research on dive safety, decompression and accident management have been published in medical, technical and recreational diving journals throughout the world.

John is currently the Executive Director and Director of Training of the Divers Alert Network Asia-Pacific (DAN Asia-Pacific), which he founded in 1994 in an effort to improve the safety of scuba diving within the Asia-Pacific. In 2007 he received an Order of Australia award for services to scuba diving safety, resuscitation and first aid.