Dr Peter Buzzacott

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society (UHMS) and the European Undersea and Baromedical Society (EUBS) member, and founding member of the Australasian Wilderness and Expedition Society (AWEMS)

Dr. Peter Buzzacott, MPH, PhD, FUHM is a CDAA advanced cave diver, advanced trimix, CCR diver, and former recreational and technical diving instructor.

He is the former Director of Injury Monitoring and Prevention at Divers Alert Network (DAN) headquarters in Durham, North Carolina, where he examined the root causes of diving incidents, injuries and fatalities. Before that, he conducted decompression experiments at the University of Western Brittany, in France.

His PhD, from the University of Western Australia was on risk factors for diving injuries.

Peter has published more than 70 scientific papers, four edited book chapters and delivered >60 diving science conference presentations in 13 countries.

He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University in Western Australia, and also a DAN Scholar collaborating on a number of DAN Research projects.