Tech-Diving 2000

Dr. R.W. "Bill" Hamilton

Dr. Bill Hamilton is a physiologist and a former fighter pilot with over 35 years of R&D experience in decompression, diving, and environmental physiology. His specialty areas are breathing gases, the effects of pressure, human performance, life support, and handling operational dive data. In the laboratory he has worked with oxygen exposure, role of gases in decompression, saturation diving, HPNS, hyperbaric welding, chamber fire safety, and spacecraft atmospheres, in support of commercial, military, scientific and recreational diving. His decompression and gas management techniques were instrumental in the development of technical diving, and he has worked out practical methods for managing exposure to oxygen.

• Interview with Dr. R. W. Bill Hamilton