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Dr. Andrew Fock

Andrew began diving in 1988, during his intern year, as a member of a University based club. This spurred an interest in Diving Medicine (and a love of diving ship wrecks), culminating in him attaining a post graduate diploma in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine and taking up a position as Hyperbaric Physician at the Alfred Hospital Melbourne. Andrew also works part time as a specialist Anaesthetist principally in Cardiac and Orthopaedic anaesthesia.

He has a special interest in Decompression theory, modelling and history and has been published both in the Diving medical literature and has contributed to published texts.

Andrew has participated in, and has run diving expeditions both within Australia and internationally to dive deep ship wrecks. These have included the wrecks off the Sapphire Coast of NSW, an archaeological survey of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in the South China Seas for British Historians and an expedition to explore the German Destroyer KMS Erich Giese off Narvik Norway. He has also acted as a consultant for several diving expeditions including acting as medical officer for the Submarine Institute of Australia's AE2 project in Turkey during 2007.

Andrew presently dives using an Inspiration Vision CCR.

Andrew is a member of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society as well as the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists special interest group in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, the European Undersea and Barometric Society and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society. He is a member of the board of DAN Asia-Pacific.