Charles Paul Azzopardi Author

Dr Charles Paul Azzopardi studied medicine in Malta before starting his training in diving and hyperbaric medicine in Plymouth at the Diving Diseases Research Centre (DDRC) in 2016. He then returned to Malta to work at the Mater Dei Hospital Hyperbaric Unit, with rotations in Critical Care / ITU, Anaesthesia, Cardiology and ENT, graduating with a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Baromedicine. He holds postgraduate degrees in Underwater Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is an avid sidemount diver and an internationally-awarded photographer in his free time, having published 45 photography coffee table books and the Immediate Past President of the Malta Institute of Professional Photography. Dr John Parker was born and bred in Liverpool, UK and medically trained at Edinburgh University. He came to Australia to scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef and never returned. He commenced a medical practice in Airlie Beach in Queensland to follow a passion for diving medicine and later worked at Golden Beach in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast. Intermittently he has ventured with the Red Cross and MSF on humanitarian medical missions including 3 war zones, 2 epidemics and several refugee camps. He spent a year as an expedition medical officer at Davis Station in Antarctica. He is presently working medical locums on Thursday Island in the Torres Straits. He has written earlier editions of ‘The Sports Diving Medical”, “Poetic Prescriptions for Feeling Good” (2004) and “From Cholera to Ebola: confessions of a humanitarian doctor” (2020).