Dr Mario Saliba, medical officer in charge of the Hyperbaric Unit at Gozo General Hospital, recently attended the biannual conference of the UK Diving Medical Referees in Bristol.

This is a consensus meeting of diving medical experts to upgrade UK guidelines for fitness to dive for both commercial and recreational divers. There is a possibility that the next conference in 2015 will be held in Gozo.

Dr Saliba is the only Maltese member of the committee. There were 60 other participants from the UK, Ireland, Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium, Egypt and Cyprus.

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