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Steven M. Barsky is an accomplished public speaker, and has given presentations around the world to a wide variety of groups. Steve knows how to tailor his presentation to the correct level for his audience, whether he is speaking to physicians or sport divers. His seminars have ranged from one hour to 2-day programs.
Over the past 26 years Steve has given presentations to a diverse series of conferences and groups, including the following:
- Scuba Show - Long Beach, California 2012
- Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society & NOAA, Physician's Course in Diving Medicine, Seattle, WA 2012
- Dive Accident Management Symposium, U.S. Coast Guard Sector, Los Angeles, California, November 2011
- National Capital Special Operations Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, October 2011
- Making Sense of Recreational Diving Accidents - presented for the attorneys of Hewitt & Truszkowski, 2011
- California Harbormaster's Conference, Dana Point, California 2010
- Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society- presentations in Maryland and Japan
- NOAA Workshop on Contaminated Water Diving, Seattle, Washington
- Canadian Navy at the Defense Civil Institute for Environmental Medicine, Toronto, Canada
- Divers Alert Network - Diving Fatality Workshop - 2010
- International Police Diving Symposium, Toronto, Canada
- INPP (National Professional Diving School), France - French Navy divers, French commercial divers, Marseille, France
- VTN Workshop on Contaminated Water Diving - Dutch Navy divers, Dutch Customs divers, Holland
- Association of Diving Contractors International - presentation on gas heating for life support
- United States Coast Guard, Los Angeles, California
- United States Coast Guard, San Diego, California- 2 day training course on investigation of diving accidents
- National Association of Underwater Instructors International Conference on Underwater Education
- American Academy of Underwater Sciences conferences in California, Florida, Washington
- Joint Scientific and Hyperbaric Medicine Conference, Tokyo, Japan
- Diving Equipment and Marketing Association
- Dive Rescue International Annual Conferences for Public Safety Divers conferences in Colorado, California, and Florida
- Emergency Dive Accident Management Course, Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber
- Long Beach, California Lifeguards
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Portland, Oregon
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Divers - 2 day training program on contaminated water diving
Steve has lectured on a wide variety of diving topics, including subjects for recreational divers, public safety divers, and commercial divers. His technical presentations and training for professionals have included the following topics:
- Investigating Recreational and Commercial Diving Accidents
- Polluted Water Diving (including dry suits, helmets, full-face masks, risks and hazards)
- Intelligibility Testing of Diving Helmets
- Breathing Gas Heating for Life Support
- Surface-Supplied Diving Systems
- Catastrophic Dry Suit Failures
In the recreational field, Steve has lectured to sport divers and instructors on the following subjects:
- Small boat diving
- Spearfishing
- Dry suit diving
- Careers in diving
- Underwater video techniques
- Dive computer selection
- California Lobster Diving
Contact Steve Barsky if you are in need of a speaker for your next conference or training program.
