Divers Alert Community® and Rolex are happy to announce that Richard Moon, M.D., has been chosen because the 2021 DAN/Rolex Diver of the Yr. The award was introduced at a digital occasion on June 5.
Dr. Moon is a professor of anesthesiology at Duke College and the medical director of the Duke Middle for Hyperbaric Medication and Environmental Physiology. He’s additionally a former medical director of DAN. All through his 40-year profession in dive drugs and analysis, Dr. Moon has sought to achieve a greater understanding of cardiorespiratory perform on the human physique when subjected to environmental situations equivalent to being deep underwater or at excessive altitude. His analysis into the consequences of decompression has benefitted lots of of divers affected by decompression illness and different dive-related accidents. By his dedication and important contributions to dive drugs, Dr. Moon has made diving safer for all.
For greater than three a long time, DAN and Rolex have collaborated to honor a person who has made substantial contributions to dive drugs, security or analysis and to call that individual the DAN/Rolex Diver of the Yr. This award is likely one of the most vital honors in diving. It started within the late Nineteen Eighties as a beneficiant grant to DAN from Rolex to acknowledge the group’s work on behalf of divers. The award developed to function a Rolex look ahead to the recipient together with a donation to DAN to assist fund dive security analysis.
“Any of Dr. Moon’s 40 years of service in dive drugs may have earned him this prestigious award; we hope he’ll settle for this token of recognition for his lifetime of achievements,” stated DAN president and CEO Invoice Ziefle. “We’re at all times searching for stand-out people who’re making constructive impacts on diving. We wish to honor Dr. Moon’s heroic work on behalf of divers with this award.”
