Tasmania is Australia’s only maritime state, with its capital city Hobart supporting Southern Ocean, sub-Antarctic and Antarctic shipping and maritime activities.
Over more than seven decades CARMM partners have been delivering maritime medical care across cold environment and extreme paradigms, providing support and research to improve healthcare outcomes.
The Australian Antarctic Division, University of Tasmania’s Institute of Marine and Antarctic Science (IMAS) and the Australian Maritime College (AMC) the Tasmanian Government bring together a unique breadth and depth in maritime expertise.
The Tasmanian Health Service’s Department of Diving, Hyperbaric and Space Medicine has the Southern Hemisphere’s only hyperbaric/hypobaric (space) recompression chamber facility and specialists in maritime medical care.