The Rubicon Foundation saw many new changes and collaborations in 2011. The most noticeable of our changes is to the web site. On September 16th we launched our new site that included a major change to the look and feel. …
view »Today we launched a survey in collaboration with the Divers Alert Network, Duke Anesthesiology, and the Navy Experimental Diving Unit. Our aim is to evaluate use of existing carbon dioxide (CO2) canister tracking technology within the recreation and technical diving …
view »The lucky 500th Facebook fan is none other than Cameron Martz. Cameron is a Certified Health and Fitness Instructor and author of Fitness for divers. Cameron also offers advice on diving fitness and is available at cameronmartz (at) divefitness dot com …
view »Rubicon board members Gene Hobbs and Richard Walker helped out in the Duke Dive Medicine (DDM) booth at the 2011 Diving Equipment & Marketing Association (DEMA) show in Orlando, Florida. The team joined DDM physician Jake Freiberger and Duke PhD candidate …
view »Over the next few days we will be continuing to roll out a new system for regular updates to the Rubicon Research Repository (RRR). The true launch of this system will begin tonight with the release of the DAN Recreational Diving …
view »Today we are proud to announce that the Project Pink Tank questionnaire is live. The success of this project depends on the number of scuba diving breast cancer survivors we can get to fill out the survey. Please let your …
view »We have been receiving questions about papers that people are no longer able to access in the Rubicon Research Repository (RRR). In most cases, it appears that the links saved were directly to the papers within the database. Please visit …
view »There is one week until the beginning of “Breast Cancer Awareness Month”. On October first, Rubicon will be launching the questionnaire for Project Pink Tank. Have you mentioned this to your dive club for the newsletter? Have you posted it …
view »If you are reading this post, you have found our new site! Many thanks to the team at Grassroutes Networking and Neu Concepts for their many hours and late nights designing, building, and updating our site. Feel like we had …
view »It’s often said that people mellow with age. The exact opposite is true of R.W. “Billy Bob” Hamilton Jr. Billy Bob productively used every waking minute of every day. To us he was husband, father, grandfather, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, partner, …
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