Oxygen Diving (PDF)

Ryszard Klos graduated from the Technical University of Wroclaw with an MSc in physicochemistry. He started his professional carrier in the Institute of Low Temperature and Structural Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw.

In 1985 he attended military training required of university graduates and graduated from Chemical Warfare College. Next year he joined the Polish Navy as platoon leader in Military Diving School. In 1988 he was transferred to the Naval Academy to the Department of Diving Gear and Underwater Work Technology where he earned his PhD in the field of design and operation of machines. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the DR-DC Toronto (former: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine). He defended his habilitation thesis (higher PhD thesis) in the field of machine operation at Gdansk University of Technology.

The author is a retired Polish Navy captain. He is currently employed as Associate Professor at the Polish Naval Academy, where he is responsible for various diving and physicochemical research projects and programs. He has written nine books and many scientific articles. From 2012 to 2015 he served as Deputy of Rector for Scientific Research at the Polish Naval Academy. From 2004 to 2007 he was a President of the Polish Hyperbaric Medical and Technical Society.