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Rubicon Foundation Projects

These projects represent work we have been doing since our inception.
Rubicon Research Repository
Archive
The Rubicon Review
Carbon Monoxide Treatment of the Hispanic Population
B-25 Recovery and Preservation
The Mysterious Malady DVD

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Rubicon Research Repository

This project began with the goal to to make the available resources more accessible. The focal point of this project has been collection and scanning documents for inclusion in our free digital repository.

http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org

Currently, our repository is seeking funding to enable it to grow into the largest single digital collection of diving, aviation, and environmental research available. Please visit the Repository background page for additional information on this project.

The system is comprised of many sections. Please visit the repository for an overview of the information available. We have constructed a suggested reading list to aide new users.

We would like to offer our appreciation to Keita Ikeda, Ph.D. of Duke University Medical Center and North Carolina Digital for the tools we used in creating the metadata for the various technical reports. We would also like to recognize Richard Ingle, MS for his tool and help with the UHMS abstracts as well as changes within the software. Several others have been and are continuing to be a MAJOR asset in the construction and development of this resource and we would like to offer our sincere thanks!

Additional Resources:
The presentation given at the Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) annual conference held November 3rd through the 5th, 2006 on Diving Medical Literature was sponsored by the Divers Alert Network (DAN) is available for download.

The Repository runs on an Apple G5 XServe with DSpace V. 1.3.2 Open Source software. More information on DSpace can be found at their site on the project's web site or downloaded from SourceForge.

Archive

Our Archive project was born out of our Rubicon Research Repository. The goal of this project was to make collections of printed research available in an electronic format. It is our hope that by making these collections of often hard to find documents electronic, they will be have a broader reach. Please visit the Archive background page for additional information on this project.
We have been collaborating with the following organizations:
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)
U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE)
The Divers Alert Network (DAN)

Through these collaborations we have built the collections listed below.

Complete Collections.
Undersea Biomedical Research (1974 to 1992) in cooperation with GUE
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (1993 to current) in cooperation with GUE
UHMS Workshops supported by DAN
Underwater Medicine and Related Sciences supported by UHMS
Hyperbaric Oxygen Review (1980 to 1985)
Journal of Hyperbaric Medicine (1986 to 1992)

Oral History Preservation and Digitization

-This is a part of the Archive Project CAPT Willard F. Searle, Jr. (USN) ret.
In his initial Navy career, which began during World War II, and in his subsequent civilian activities "Bill" Searle has been an active force for development and progress in international maritime salvage, diving and work under the sea - in Ocean Engineering. Practically no phase of those activities has been untouched by his review, supervision or active participation. Divers with modern protective equipment and effective tools work at previously only dreamed-of depths and times to accomplish once impossible tasks. Archaeologists can investigate history hidden underwater for centuries and millennia. Underwater structures for an amazing number of useful and necessary purposes are now installed in previously impossible locations. From among the technical development programs initiated by him in the 1960's have arisen Remotely Operated Vehicles {ROV's} and Autonomous Undersea Vehicle's {AUV's} which safely [and quietly in necessary] penetrate all areas and depths of the ocean and perform important tasks which are emblazoned in newspapers and headlines [or never mentioned]. All these are the result of a truly prodigious career.

We Digitized Nineteen Oral History Interviews were taken by John T Mason, Jr. from 1971 to 1974. They remain in draft form but are made available by the efforts of CAPT Robert C. Bornmann MD, USN (ret.) and CAPT Richard D. Vann, PhD, USNR (ret.) to ensure their preservation. More information about CAPT Willard F. Searle, Jr. and the oral histories can be found on the Searle Project page.

Other Completed Work.
The "Physiology of Breath-hold Diving and the AMA of Japan" edited by Herman Rahn and Tetsuro Yokoyama (RRR ID: 3279) to the Diver's Alert Network for inclusion in the course materials of the Breath-hold Diving Symposium and Pre-course held on June 20-21, 2006. The book was published by the International Union of Physiological Sciences, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council of the United States following a symposium on August 31 to September 1, 1965 in Tokyo, Japan. Each of the participants of the 2006 Breath-hold Diving Symposium receives a copy of this scanned book. We would like to thank Drs. William and Caroline Fife for their donation of this work.

The Rubicon Review

In today's world of lightning fast research and publication, it is both difficult and time consuming to stay up-to-date with the most current information. The Rubicon Review, will periodically update our new Yahoo Group with new and relevant literature in environmental physiology.

For more information about this project, please visit the project page or visit the Yahoo Group.

Carbon Monoxide Treatment of the Hispanic Population

We hope to inform the Hispanic population regionally and nationally, with respect to the treatment of Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning. We will produce a Spanish-language video aimed at the Hispanic population explaining CO poisoning and its Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO) treatment procedure, with its accompanying advantages and risks. In this collaboration with the Duke University Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology, the treatment safety clinical films will be accessible throughout the world on the Research Repository Project, and specifically targeting the members of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS), an international, non-profit association of scientists and health professionals who work in the field of diving and hyperbaric medicine, for use in training patients who require this emergency treatment.

Please visit the Carbon Monoxide Education page for additional information on this project.

B-25 Recovery and Preservation Project

Please visit the B-25 Project page for additional information and daily reports from the divers.

The B-25c Mitchell Bomber was ditched on April 4th, 1943 and remained 55 Meters (150 feet of fresh water) below the surface of Lake Murray, SC for 60 years. Today, the plane is being preserved and put on display at the Southern Museum of Flight.

This project is headed by Dr. Robert Seigler, a pediatric intensivist from Greenville, SC. The plane is the third oldest of 130 left from the war. Dr. Seigler started looking for the plane over ten years ago. In 1992, he was working with the US Naval Reserve Sonar Unit when they located the exact position. With help from attorney John Hodge, they began the long process of obtaining salvage rights from South Carolina Electric and Gas, the owner of Lake Murray, as well as securing a quit-claim deed from the United Sates Air Force. Gary Larkins of The Air Pirates was brought in to supervise the project. The project was filmed by a crew from the History Channel to be shown on Mega Movers. The Lake Murray B-25 Rescue Project: September 10Ð24, 2005 is Flag 103 of The Explorer's Club expeditions.

Copies of the Mega Movers episode on DVD are now available through the History Channel web site.

The Mysterious Malady: Toward an Understanding of Decompression Injuries.

More information about this collaboration with Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) is available on their site. https://secure.gue.com/catalog/order/video.shtml

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