ESDP meeting at ICUA Zadar

The International Centre for Underwater Archaeology in Zadar hosted a meeting of European umbrella association of scientific divers, European Scientific Diving Panel (ESDP) on 20th and 21st March 2013. This alliance of associations and organizations of the European states was organized under the European Marine Board's (EMB). The goal of the ESDP is to gather scientific divers across Europe, to agree on common standards, improve co-operation and the profession and to impact future European legislation that will cover this aspect of diving. The meeting brought together representatives of over twenty scientific divers from various institutes from thirteen countries. Croatian scientific diving was represented by the Coordination of scientific divers of Croatia, organisation that was accepted as a full member at this meeting.