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Russian divers
16-01-2007, 21:19
I'm looking for the contact info of the hospitals and recompression chambers in Sudan and Saudi Arabia where divers are usually brought in emergency.
I'd appreciate any piece of help (here or a personal message).
It's needed for looking for our lost friends. We're now looking for any info and any chance.
Thank you for undestanding.

Alwassia
17-01-2007, 12:56
1. There are a few chambers with some comercial diving outfits, but they do not have Diving doctors and are not available for the general public.

2. The Navy base in Jeddah has a chamber which is available but thier doctor is navy trainined so accepting more symtoms as ok in comparison to a non navy doc. That would be my choice for emmergency cases and initial treatment and then go the Sharm to get final treatment. But they do not always allow people onto the base, you know the old problem you can get to the chamber if you can get on the base, but as you are no Saudi and no military person you may face problems. But if you get in it is FOC.

3. Then there is the chamber from the "Save our Seas" organisation once more not accessable to general public.

4. Then Aramco has at least one chanber in the western region and one on the Gulf but guess - right not accessable to the general public only Aramco staff & subcontractors.

5. If you aks DAN Europe they will tell you no avialable at all.

6. There are one or two hospitals in Jeddah & Riaydh which have hyperbaric chambers for burn victims but they go only to 1 bar, better then nothing is say.

7. One or two dive schoold & boat operators are thinking about getting a full chamber but that may be soem long time away.

8. But then of cause you can always take the approach some HSE divers took with which is was on a sientific expedition. Dive only with 24 hours interval and then to only 60% of the No Doco limits. After the dive go on O2 for 45 min. You can guess not a lot of actual diving was done this way.

I hope that helps.

Khaled

Russian divers
17-01-2007, 13:36
1. There are a few chambers with some comercial diving outfits, but they do not have Diving doctors and are not available for the general public.

2. The Navy base in Jeddah has a chamber which is available but thier doctor is navy trainined so accepting more symtoms as ok in comparison to a non navy doc. That would be my choice for emmergency cases and initial treatment and then go the Sharm to get final treatment. But they do not always allow people onto the base, you know the old problem you can get to the chamber if you can get on the base, but as you are no Saudi and no military person you may face problems. But if you get in it is FOC.

3. Then there is the chamber from the "Save our Seas" organisation once more not accessable to general public.

4. Then Aramco has at least one chanber in the western region and one on the Gulf but guess - right not accessable to the general public only Aramco staff & subcontractors.

5. If you aks DAN Europe they will tell you no avialable at all.

6. There are one or two hospitals in Jeddah & Riaydh which have hyperbaric chambers for burn victims but they go only to 1 bar, better then nothing is say.

7. One or two dive schoold & boat operators are thinking about getting a full chamber but that may be soem long time away.

8. But then of cause you can always take the approach some HSE divers took with which is was on a sientific expedition. Dive only with 24 hours interval and then to only 60% of the No Doco limits. After the dive go on O2 for 45 min. You can guess not a lot of actual diving was done this way.

I hope that helps.

Khaled

thanks a lot! but do you happen to have any contact info?
i've already got the contact of the Military Hospital Chamber. Anything else?