ADEX OZTek Sydney Australia

2025 Sydney International Convention and Exhibition Centre

Two powerhouse shows are coming together OZTek Advanced Diving Conference and ADEX brings you ADEX OZTek Australia 2025!

ADEX, an established and trusted show, will open its doors for the first time in Australia to welcome divers, non-divers, students, and families with its specially curated programs and festivities designed to entice more and more people to take an interest in our oceans. At the same time, the show, in combination with OZTek, will continue to serve as an invigorating platform for the diving community – giving them a voice, providing a space to meet, fostering relationships, exchanging ideas, and receiving recognition for their achievements. ADEX will celebrate 31 years in 2025.

Booth: The DAN Team will be exhibiting at ADEX, so if you have any questions or would like to collect a DAN Emergency Hotline Tag, visit booth B17 – B18.

In addition, DAN’s Vice President of Research, Dr Frauke Tillmans, is joining OZTek and will present:

What Do We Know About Rebreather Safety?

What kills rebreather divers? In this talk we’ll be taking a look at the rapidly growing rebreather community, including the accidents that have occurred and some numbers that may help estimate the size of the rebreather community. The number of newly certified CCR divers has increased from an estimated 2,000 in 2013 to over 3,000 today, which is in line with the growth in CCR sales. This talk will also cover what we know about the confirmed CCR fatalities from 2013 to 2022, including root cause analyses of the cause of death where possible. Finally, we’ll also highlight challenges in data acquisition and analysis.

How Feasible Is Personalized Decompression?

Are we there yet? In this talk, Dr. Tillmans will explore the intriguing topic of personalized decompression and its connection to bubble formation and individual physiology. With a focus on understanding the complexities of decompression stress and its relationship to DCS risk, we will dive into the challenges faced by dive researchers worldwide in studying individual physiology. We’ll also discuss the limitations of current methods, explore the potential of new technologies, and outline why further research is needed.

Plus, Dr Tillmans will present at ADEX

‘That Was Close …” – Learning from Diving Accidents’

Have you been on a dive where things just did not go the way you intended? The Research Team at Divers Alert Network (DAN) has been collecting reports of mishaps, accidents, and fatalities for over four decades. In this talk, we will take an in-depth look at diving accidents and safety measures. We will examine challenges in monitoring and analyzing global incidents and accidents. We’ll reveal key lessons learned from accident reports shared with DAN, and we’ll cover the importance of checklists, the effects of peer pressure, and the implementation of a culture of safety within the community.