Mr. Dick Rutkowski This is Me

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1. 1. International Board of Undersea Medicine

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   Published on: 2/9/2008   Last Visited: 2/9/2008

   Dick Rutkowski - PresidentMr. Rutkowski retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with 33 years of federal service.He served as Deputy Diving Coordinator.He was founder and director of the NOAA Diving/Hyperbaric Training and Diver Treatment Facility from 1973 to 1985 where hundreds of divers have been treated.He also served a co-director for the annual Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) physicians diving and hyperbaric medical training program for the past 21 years.Mr. Rutkowski also served as director of ESSA/NOAA Diver Training from 1965 until he retired.Upon retiring from federal service in 1985, Mr. Rutkowski formed Hyperbarics International, Inc. for the purpose of educating and consulting in the field of hyperbaric medicine, diving gasses and life support systems.
   
   After retiring from NOAA, Mr. Rutkowski has continued the use his vast knowledge conducting training programs for agencies such as NOAA, US Navy, US Air Force, NASA, EPA, US Customs, Panama Canal Commission, various hospitals, commercial diving companies and foreign navies.Mr. Rutkowski is past president/vice president of the UHMS, Gulf Coast Chapter, founder of the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers and co-founder of the American Nitrox Divers Association, International Board of Undersea Medicine, Hyperbarics International, Inc.Undersea Breathing Systems, and the Undersea Research Foundation.He also organized and founded diving safety organizations such as the Florida Underwater Council and Society of Diving Safety (Turks and Caicos Islands).In the early 1970's Mr. Rutkowski taught the first diving accident management courses, including the importance of emergency oxygen use at the dive site for injured divers.At first this theory was widely criticized but now this concept has become the standard of care and is recommended by all diver certifying agencies and associations.
   
   Mr. Rutkowski has written and lectured extensively on all form of diving life support systems, gases, undersea and hyperbaric medicine, and has installed over 18 hyperbaric facilities in hospitals and field locations.His ongoing training programs have taught thousand s of physicians, allied medical personnel, dive supervisors, and instructors, undersea and hyperbaric medicine including chamber operation.He has written and edited over 60 publications and training films including the NOAA Diving Manual.For his long dedicated service Dick Rutkowski has received many awards from noted organizations including NOAA, UHMS, DAN and National Association of Underwater Divers, Explorers Club, etc. In 1967 he also had a Glacier named after him by the US Board on Geographic Names and in 1995 he was elected to the Explorers Club as a Fellow.

2. 2. Hyperbarics International, Inc.

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   Published on: 9/3/2006   Last Visited: 5/19/2008

   Dick Rutkowski InformationHyperbarics International, Inc.
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   Mr. Rutkowski retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 1985 with 33 years of federal service.He served as Deputy Diving Coordinator.He was founder and director of the NOAA Diving/Hyperbaric Training and Diver Treatment Facility from 1973 to 1985 where hundreds of divers have been treated.He also served as co-director for the NOAA/UHMS three week physicians diving and hyperbaric medical training program for the past 21 years.During this time, hundreds of physicians have completed their program and are presently serving as directors or physicians for major hyperbaric facilities in the country.
   
   Mr. Rutkowski also served as director of ESSA/NOAA Diver Training from 1965 until he retired.He has acquired vast knowledge of diving life support systems including the NOAA saturation systems such as:
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   Mr. Rutkowski has saturated many times and is a NOAA aquanaut.In addition, Mr. Rutkowski is a graduate of Divers Training Academy and past owner and president of "Dive Incorporated", a commercial diving company whose primary purpose was to service oil rigs.Upon retiring from federal service in 1985, Mr. Rutkowski formed Hyperbarics International, Inc for the purpose of educating and consulting in the field of hyperbarics medicine, diving gases and life support systems.
   
   After retiring from NOAA, Mr. Rutkowski has continued to use his vast knowledge conducting training programs for agencies such as NOAA, USN, USAF, NASA, EPA, U.S. Customs, Panama Canal Commission, hospitals, commercial diving companies and foreign navies.
   
   Since 1985 Mr. Rutkowski has taught thousands of professionals in programs such as recompression chambers, engineering, diving gases, physics, physiology, pathophysiology, and the medical aspects of diving.Mr. Rutkowski is past president/vice president of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Gulf Coast Chapter, founder of the International Association of Nitrox and Technical Divers and co-founder of the American Nitrox Divers Association, International Board of Undersea Medicine, Hyperbarics International, Inc., Undersea Breathing Systems, and the Undersea Research Foundation.He has also organized and founded dicing safety organizations such as the Florida Underwater Council and Society of Diving Safety (Turks and Caicos Islands).
   
   In the early and mid 1970's Mr. Rutkowski taught the first diving accident management courses, including the importance of oxygen use at the dive site by lay persons.At first his theory was widely criticized but now this concept is taught nationally by all certification agencies.In 1978, Dick Rutkowski wrote and published the first diving accident management manual setting the standard used by the Divers Alert Network.During the first two years of publication (1978-79) over 250, 000 copies were distributed.
   
   Mr. Rutkowski has written and lectured extensively on all forms of diving life support systems, gases, undersea and hyperbaric medicine, and has installed over 18 hyperbaric facilities in hospitals and field locations.His ongoing training programs have taught thousands of physicians, allied medical personnel, dive supervisors and instructors, undersea and hyperbaric medicine including chamber operations.He has written training manuals for Nitrox use entitles "Instructor/Student Guide for the Use of Nitrogen-Oxygen Mixtures as a Divers' Breathing Gas," " The Complete Guide to Nitrox Diving," "Introduction to Nitrox Diving," and the diving accident management manual mentioned above, a Recompression Chamber life support manual "Instructor/Student Guide for the Use of Breathing Gases During Hyperbaric Exposures," and "Mixing/Blending for Nitrox and Trimix".In addition he has been a contributor and editor of the NOAA Diving Manual and training films.
   
   For his long, dedicated service to research science and diving, Dick Rutkowski has received many awards and honors, including:

3. 3. Alp-Maritimes Sports - NAUI

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   Published on: 6/14/2008   Last Visited: 6/14/2008

   In 1985, Dick Rutkowski, a NAUI instructor and former Director of NOAA diving operations, brought a "new gas mixture" (nitrox) into the recreational community.
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   It is of some note that the early leaders and record holders such as Jim Bowden, Hal Watts, Billy Deans, Terrence Tysall, Ann Kristovich, Tom Mount and Dick Rutkowski were all NAUI instructors.