ESDP’s ToR updating
The ESDP’s Terms of Reference have been updated. The version in force, endorsed on June 5, 2025, is available online: https://www.esdpanel.eu/esdp-s-tor/
37th ESDP meeting, videoconference
The 37th ESDP meeting will be held on Wedbesday, October 29th 2025 from 2:00 PM CET, via videoconference.
Just published (Dec. 2024)
Féral (J.-P.), Norro (A.) 2024. Standards of initial training in Occupational Scientific Diving (OSD), a necessity for the mobility of scientists in Europe. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 65(4): 269-277. DOI: 10.21411/CBM.A.AAB43A40 (PDF)
8th ECSD – ESDP’s contributions
Abstracts Book Balazy P, Włodarska-Kowalczuk M, Chełchowski M, Opalińska Z, Zmudczyńska-Skarbek K. Tracking changes in benthic community composition along the seabird colony impact gradient with a photo-quadrat surveys in the Arctic (OP18) p.37 Norro A, Féral J-P. ISO standards for … Lire la suite
ESDP Best Practice for using Closed-Circuit Rebreather for Occupational Scientific Diving at work (2nd version)
A new version of the ESDP’s consultation document Alain Norro (ed.) 2024. ESDP Best Practice for using Closed-Circuit Rebreather for Occupational Scientific Diving at work is available here.
Just published (Oct. 2023)
Féral (J.-P.), Norro (A.) 2023. Specific initial training standards are needed to dive for science in Europe, Occupational vs. Citizen Science Diving. Frontiers in Marine Science, section Marine Affairs and Policy, Policy and Practice Reviews 10:1134494, DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1134494 (PDF: open … Lire la suite
PNKK is born!
Piotr Balazy, the Polish representative in ESDP, informed about the creation of the (national) Polish scientific diving committee PNKK. The news is published in Polish Hyperbaric Research in November 2022 [Bałazy P, Kontny B, Różycki J, Saniewski M, Puczko D, … Lire la suite
5th Joint International German – Swedish – Finnish Scientific Diving Training Course 2022
In 2022, the 5th international training course for scientific diving will be jointly organized by the Biological Station Helgoland (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Germany), the Kristineberg Marine Research Station at University of Gothenburg – … Lire la suite
19th ESDP meeting
The meeting will be held in Brussels on October 26th, 2017, 10:00-17:00 [rouge]Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Operational Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature) Gulledelle 100, 1200 Brussels, Belgium[/rouge] [bleu]RBINS is located near the airport making access easy avoiding … Lire la suite