Professor Simon Mitchell – Cave Rescue of the Thai School Boys

Our September speaker will be Simon Mitchell, Professor and Head of Department of Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland.

Simon works as an anaesthesiologist at Auckland City Hospital, a diving physician at North Shore Hospital (Auckland), and is Professor of Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland. For the last 3 years he has been ranked by Expertscape.com as the world’s foremost expert in both decompression sickness and air embolism.

Simon has a long career in sport, scientific, commercial, and military diving. He was first to dive and identify three historic deep shipwrecks in Australia and New Zealand, including one in 2002 which was the deepest wreck dive undertaken worldwide at the time. He was conferred Fellowship of the Explorers’ Club of New York in 2006, and was the Rolex Diver of the Year in 2015.

Simon is going to give a talk about the rescue of the Thai school boys from the caves in the Tham Luang Forest Park in the far north of Thailand in July 2019.