1. Comprehensive Maritime Incident Management: protocols, roles, and chain of command for coordinated response
2. Operational Planning and Execution: briefing, routes, weather windows, and go/no-go criteria
3. Rapid Risk Assessment: criticality matrix, scene control, and decision-making under pressure
4. Operational Communication: VHF/GMDSS, standardized reports, and inter-agency liaison
5. Tactical Mobility and Safe Boarding: RHIB maneuvers, approach, mooring, and recovery
6. Equipment and Technologies: PPE, signaling, satellite tracking, and field data logging
7. Immediate Care of the Affected: primary assessment, hypothermia, trauma, and stabilization for evacuation
8. Adverse Environmental Conditions: swell, Visibility, flows, and operational mitigation

   Simulation and training: critical scenarios, use of VR/AR, and exercises with performance metrics

   Documentation and continuous improvement: lessons learned, indicators (MTTA/MTTR), and SOP updates

1. Introduction to Respiratory Gases: Oxygen, Nitrogen, Helium, and Argon.
2. Physiology of Respiration: Oxygen Consumption, CO2 Production, Dead Space.
3. Gas Toxicity: Oxygen, Nitrogen (Narcosis), CO2.
4. Decompression Sickness (DCS): Causes, Types, Symptoms, and Treatment.
5. Decompression Models: Haldane, Bühlmann, VPM, RGBM.
6. Dive Planning: Depth, Bottom Time, Gases, Ascent Rates.
7. Decompression Tables and Dive Computers: Use and Limitations.
8. Gas Mixtures: Nitrox, Trimix, Heliox: Advantages, disadvantages, and mixing procedures.

   Life support systems: regulators, cylinders, buoyancy compensators.

   Emergency procedures: equipment failure management, diver assistance.

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1. Introduction to Diving Physiology: Gas Laws and Their Application.
2. Respiratory System: Adaptation to Increased Pressure, Oxygen and Nitrogen Toxicity.
3. Cardiovascular System: Effects of Immersion, Diving Reflex, Pulmonary Edema.
4. Barotrauma: Prevention and Management in the Middle Ear, Paranasal Sinuses, and Lungs.
5. Decompression Sickness: Bubble Formation, Risk Factors, Decompression Tables.
6. Nitrogen Narcotics and High Pressure Nervous Syndrome (HPNS).
7. Hypothermia and Hyperthermia: Prevention, Symptoms, and Treatment in Diving.
8. Drowning and Near Drowning: Pathophysiology and Resuscitation Protocols.
9. First aid in diving incidents: oxygen, fluid therapy, evacuation.
10. Legal and ethical aspects of diving emergency care.

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1. Introduction to the physiology of technical diving: differences with recreational diving.
2. Oxygen physiology: toxicity, windows of opportunity, and monitoring.
3. Carbon dioxide physiology: retention, narcosis, and closed-loop management.
4. Nitrogen physiology: narcosis, decompression sickness, and advanced decompression models.
5. Helium physiology: HPNS, trimix, and considerations at great depths.
6. Management of hypothermia and hyperthermia in technical diving.
7. Drowning and immersion in fresh/salt water: pathophysiology and rescue protocols.
8. Dive pharmacology: drug interactions with diving technical.
9. Pre-dive assessment: individual and environmental risk factors.
10. Advanced first aid specific to technical diving incidents.

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1. System Architecture and Components: Structural design, materials, and subsystems (mechanical, electrical, electronic, and fluid) with selection and assembly criteria for marine environments
2. Fundamentals and Principles of Operation: Physical and engineering foundations (thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, electricity, control, and materials) that explain performance and operating limits
3. Safety and Environmental (SHE): Risk analysis, PPE, LOTO, hazardous atmospheres, spill and waste management, and emergency response plans
4. Applicable Regulations and Standards: IMO/ISO/IEC requirements and local regulations;
5. Conformance criteria, certification, and best practices for operation and maintenance
6. Inspection, testing, and diagnostics: Visual/dimensional inspection, functional testing, data analysis, and predictive techniques (vibration, thermography, fluid analysis) to identify root causes
7. Preventive and predictive maintenance: Hourly/cycle/seasonal plans, lubrication, adjustments, calibrations, consumable replacement, post-service verification, and operational reliability
8. Instrumentation, tools, and metrology: Measuring and testing equipment, diagnostic software, calibration and traceability; selection criteria, safe use, and storage
9. Onboard integration and interfaces: Mechanical, electrical, fluid, and data compatibility; Sealing and watertightness, EMC/EMI, corrosion protection, and interoperability testing.

   Quality, acceptance testing, and commissioning: process and materials control, FAT/SAT, bench and sea trials, go/no-go criteria, and evidence documentation.

   Technical documentation and integrated practice: logs, checklists, reports, and a complete case study (safety → diagnosis → intervention → verification → report) applicable to any system.

1. Introduction to Diving Physiology: Gas Laws and Their Implications
2. Effects of Pressure: Barotrauma, Decompression Sickness (DCS)
3. Oxygen Toxicity: Effects on the CNS and Lungs, PO2 Management
4. Nitrogen Toxicity: Nitrogen Narcosis, Mechanisms, and Prevention
5. Hypercapnia and Hypoxia: Causes, Symptoms, and Management in Technical Diving
6. Physiology of Cold Immersion: Hypothermia, Response to Cold Shock
7. Exercise Physiology in Diving: Oxygen Consumption, CO2 Production
8. Dehydration and Diving: Effects on Decompression and Performance
9. Physiological monitoring in technical diving: Use of sensors and alarms
10. Research and advances in the physiology of diving and decompression

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