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ForwardThe Dive, Maritime Medicine and Prolonged Care Course
This course is a 10-day course designed to provide the attendee with a strong baseline knowledge of dive and maritime medicine as well as improve your ability to provde4 care in austere maritime environments. As a student you will earn your Open water, advanced open water and rescue diver dive certifications. This is a physically demanding course with much or the course spent in both closed and open ocean environments. The course ends with prolonged care scenarios where the student will provide care across multiple platforms in a maritime environment. Students must pass a final written exam as well as meet all NAUI skills testing to successfully complete this course.
Target Audience
This activity provides continuing education for physicians, nurses, and physician associates/physician assistants across the Military Health System (MHS). A certificate of attendance is available for other attendees.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the signs, symptoms, mechanisms, prevention, and treatment of nitrogen narcosis and high-pressure nervous syndrome.
- Classify the different types of diving operations and profiles utilized in the military.
- Summarize the primary training pipelines and locations for US military dive personnel.
- Use the appropriate military medical manuals to locate physical examination standards for military divers.
- Explain the composition and physiological indications of gases frequently used in breathing mixtures.
- Describe the physiological role of supplemental oxygen in the treatment of dive injuries.
- Recognize the clinical presentations of various forms of aquatic life that pose minor to serious risks to diver health and safety.
- Apply appropriate treatment protocols for various injuries and envenomations caused by aquatic life.
- Demonstrate a detailed neurological examination of a simulated diving casualty in accordance with Appendix 5A of the U.S. Navy Diving Manual.
- Interpret the core principles of dive physiology as they relate to the onset of common dive injuries.
- Discuss the unique logistical and medical principles of providing prolonged casualty care in an austere maritime environment.
- Execute prolonged casualty care protocols during simulated patient encounters in maritime environments.
Michael Heth, NAUI Certified Dive Instructor. Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose.
Jeremy Neskey, FAWM, DiMM, WP-C, TP-C, TECC/PHTLS, ACLS, PALS, NUAI SCUBA Instructor, Avalanche PRO 2. Presenter has no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure: DHA J-7 staff, planners, authors, faculty, and content reviewers for this educational activity have no relevant financial or non-financial relationship(s) relating to the course content or with ineligible companies to disclose.
Available Credit
- 28.00 AAPA
DHA J-7 CEPO has been authorized by the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 28.00 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until Tuesday, August 4, 2026 - 11:59pm ET. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
- 28.00 ACCME Non-Physician CME Credit
DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing education. ACCME Non-Physician CME Credit providers will be provided a certificate of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. ACCME Non-Physician CME Credit providers may receive a maximum of 28.00 hours for completing this activity.
- 28.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
DHA J-7 CEPO designated this Course for a maximum of 28.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 28.00 ANCC
DHA J-7 CEPO is accredited by the Joint Accreditation/Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) to provide this Continuing Nursing Education Course for a maximum of 28.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 28.00 Attendance
- 28.00 IPCE
In support of improving patient care, DHA J-7 CEPO is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 28.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Requirements: CE/CME certificates are awarded to MHS participants who fully complete the activity, successfully submit the evaluation survey, and pass the posttest with a minimum score of 80% unless noted otherwise. The deadline to claim credit is Aug 4, 2026.
Access Code/Accommodations: Some activities require an access code to register or claim CE/CME credit. For inquiries regarding the access code or accommodations, please email Dr. Ian Wedmore at [email protected].
For technical support, email [email protected].