The development of industries related to diving and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) activities has led to the publication of numerous guidelines and standards by trade organizations, governments, and international bodies. While these documents have undoubtedly fostered significant advancements, they often give rise to a monocultural behavior, resulting in a concerning lack of knowledge among many personnel implementing them. This arises primarily because the scientific and technical references underpinning these standards are generally not mentioned in these documents, leading to their ignorance and the tendency to apply guidance without questioning its origin and whether it is based on genuine scientific or engineering principles, or merely on beliefs or political motivations. An example of this issue is highlighted in the study "Review of Saturation Decompression Procedures Used in Commercial Diving" by Jean-Pierre Imbert, Lyubisa Matity, Jean-Yves Massimelli and Philip Bryson, that reveales that only five out of eleven companies surveyed had taken the initiative to compile essential documents termed "Justifications" or "Provenance," which are crucial in tracing and clarifying the evolution of their diving procedures. Applying standards and guidelines without knowing and understanding their foundational rationale and the scientific and technical literature behind them is unwise and dangerous. Such ignorance opens the door to misguided beliefs and misinterpretations of physiological and technical phenomena, leading to inappropriate behaviors and operational responses. Moreover, a legal aspect highlighted in "Legal Aspects of Decompression Table Validation", published in 1987 by the American lawyer specialized in maritime and insurance law, James R. Sutterfield (1942 - 2018), underscores the crucial point that adhering to a governmental standard does not absolve an employer of responsibility. Since this document's release, judicial attitudes regarding this point have not changed. Therefore, employers have the moral and professional obligation to ensure they know and understand the reasons behind the standards and procedures they implement to their employees and customers. This website offers a database of documents pertinent to underwater operations that can be downloaded at no cost, aiming to simplify readers' research on documentation while also highlighting the documents' authors and publishers, without whom scientific and technical disciplines could not progress. However, despite being quite extensive, this database is far from representing all published documents, and it may be necessary to undertake research through these various organizations that publish scientific and technical documents. These publishers can be classified as: • Non-governmental non-profit organizations. • Profit-driven document publishing companies • Governmental research organizations. • National and international standardization bodies. Please note that this list is not closed, and we will happily add new publishers.

Non-governmental non-profit organizations: Non-governmental non-profit organizations are entities that operate independently of government control and are established for charitable, educational, social, cultural, or environmental purposes. These organizations do not distribute profits to owners or shareholders; instead, they reinvest any surplus revenue to achieve their mission and goals.

• Address: The Undersea & Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) is headquartered at 631 US Highway 1, Suite 307, North Palm Beach, FL 33408 - USA • Website: https://www.uhms.org • Purpose: International non-profit association which aims to provide scientific information in addition to training. • Accessibility policy: Paid documents that are accessible free of charge to members and can be downloaded by all publics one year after their publication. • Links to documents: https://www.uhms.org/publications/uhm-journal/download-uhm- journal-pdfs.html

• Address: The Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal is headquartered at the department of anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142 - New Zealand • Website: https://www.dhmjournal.com • Purpose: This website publishes documents for two non-profit medical organizations: The South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) & the European Underwater Baromedical Society (EUBS) • Accessibility policy: Paid documents that are accessible free of charge to members and can be downloaded by all publics one year after their publication. • Links to documents: https://www.dhmjournal.com/index.php/journals https://www.dhmjournal.com/index.php/purchase-an- embargoed-article

• Address: PLOS (Public Library of Science) is headquartered at 1875 Mission Street, Suite 103 #188 San Francisco, CA 94103 - USA • Website: https://plos.org/ • Purpose: This organization is a Non-profit that relies on article processing charges, grants, and donations to sustain its operations • Accessibility policy: PLOS journals operate on an open-access model • Links to documents: https://plos.org/our-journals/

• Address: The National Academies (The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) are headquartered at 500 Fifth Street, Washington, DC 20001 - USA • Website: https://www.nationalacademies.org/home • Purpose: Private non-profit organization that groups three US academies: The National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and National Academy of Medicine (NAM). • Accessibility policy: Paid and free documents on various topics are available. • Links to documents: https://www.nationalacademies.org/publications http://www.trb.org/Publications/PubsTRBPublicationsbySubject.aspx

• Address: PubMed (National Library of Medicine) is headquartered at 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 - USA • Website: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov • Purpose: PubMed is a free resource provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It offers links to many document publishers and therefore all types of scientific and technical documents, many of them about diving and underwater technologies. • Accessibility policy: links to paid and free of charge documents • Links to documents: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

• Address: The Journal of Polish Hyperbaric Medicine and Technology Society is headquartered Grudzińskiego 4 skr. pocz. 18 81-103 Gdynia 3 - Poland • Website: http://www.phr.net.pl • Purpose: Public benefit organization (non-profit organization) providing diving and hyperbaric medicine documents • Accessibility policy: Operates on an open-access mode • Links to documents: http://www.phr.net.pl/index.php?r=site%2Farchive

• Address: “Internet Archive” is headquartered at 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118 - USA • Website: https://archive.org/ • Purpose: Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that provides all types of documents, including documents on diving, underwater vehicles, construction, etc. • Accessibility policy: Free documents • Links to documents: https://archive.org/search?

• Address: ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) is headquartered at Two Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016-5990, - USA • Website: https://www.asme.org/ • Purpose: ASME is a non-profit professional organization that provides engineering guidelines, many of which have been adopted by our industry as well as standardization bodies. • Accessibility policy: ASME guidelines are to be paid. However, a few are released for free. • Links to documents: https://www.asme.org/codes-standards/find-codes-standards

• Address: “Oxford Academic” is headquartered at Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP - United Kingdom. • Website: https://academic.oup.com/ • Purpose: “Oxford Academic” is part of the Oxford University Press (OUP), a department of the University of Oxford. It covers all topics, including diving and activities related to underwater vehicles. • Accessibility policy: Paid and free release documents. • Links to documents: https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/journals_a_to_z https://academic.oup.com/journals/search-results? page=1&q=diving&fl_SiteID=5567&SearchSourceType =1&allJournals=1 https://academic.oup.com/journals/search-results? page=1&q=underwater%20vehicles&fl_SiteID= 5567&SearchSourceType=1&allJournals=1

Profit-driven document publishing companies: Profit-driven document publishing companies are editors or distributors of documents with the primary goal of generating revenue for their owners and shareholders. This is achieved through a combination of effective cost management, strategic marketing, and diversified revenue streams such as editing costs (paid by the authors or their institutions), document sales, and support from individuals and organizations through donations. Depending on their revenue models, they offer both paid and free-release papers.

• Address: The Diving Advisory Committee (DMAC) is headquartered at 66 Buckingham Gate, London SW1E 6AU - UK • Website: https://www.dmac-diving.org/ • Purpose: The Diving Medical Advisory Committee (DMAC) is an advisory body consisting of diving medical specialists and representatives from health authorities and navies. It operates on a voluntary basis, with members contributing their time and expertise without payment. Its primary focus is to provide guidelines on medical and safety aspects of commercial diving. • Accessibility policy: Free release guidelines • Links to documents: https://www.dmac-diving.org/guidance/

• Address: Chausseestrabe 20, Berlin, Germany • Website: https://www.researchgate.net • Purpose: ResearchGate is a sharing network for authors of scientific and technical documents. It receives funding through several investment rounds from various investors and generates revenue through targeted advertising, focusing on scientific goods, services, and job matching. Membership is free of charge. • Accessibility policy: Papers on all disciplines are available for download to the general public. However, some are only available to members via the sharing system. • Links to documents: https://www.researchgate.net

• Address: Frontiers Media SA is headquartered 34 avenue du Tribunal Fédéral, 1005 Lausanne - Switzerland • Website: https://www.frontiersin.org • Purpose: This company is known as a publisher of peer-reviewed, open-access scientific journals. It has received investment from Kaltroco, the private holding company of the Koltes family, and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, owner of Nature Publishing Group and majority shareholder of Springer Nature, to further develop this open science vision. It publishes papers on a wide range of topics, among which are diving, underwater vehicles, and underwater construction. • Accessibility policy: Free access to all the public. • Links to documents: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals https://www.frontiersin.org/articles

• Address: MDPI AG, is headquartered at Grosspeteranlage 5 4052 Basel - Switzerland. • Website: https://www.mdpi.com • Purpose: This company, owned by a combination of private investors, finances its operations through article processing fees, which are typically paid by the authors' institutions or research funding agencies. It publishes a wide range of journals that include information on underwater activities. • Accessibility policy: Papers are freely available; most are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. • Links to documents: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals https://www.mdpi.com/topics

• Address: Elsevier is headquartered at Radarweg 29, 1043 NX, Amsterdam, Netherlands. • Website: https://www.elsevier.com/ • Purpose: Elsevier is a global information analytics company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. It holds journals like The Lancet and Cell and digital tools such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ClinicalKey. It is a subsidiary of the RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics based in London. • Accessibility policy: Most published documents are sold or accessible through academic organizations. However, some are made available to the public. • Links to documents: https://shop.elsevier.com/journals https://shop.elsevier.com/books/subjects/life-sciences/life- sciences https://shop.elsevier.com/books/subjects/life- sciences/neuroscience

• Address: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX, Amsterdam, Netherlands • Website: https://www.sciencedirect.com • Purpose: ScienceDirect is a subsidiary of Elsevier, specializing in providing access to scientific, technical, and health literature. • Accessibility policy: Most published documents are sold or accessible through academic organizations. However, some are made available to the public. • Links to documents: https://www.sciencedirect.com/browse/journals-and-books

• Address: OAE Publishing Inc. (OAE) is headquartered 245 E Main St Ste 107, Alhambra, California, 91801 - USA • Website: https://www.oaepublish.com • Purpose: OAE Publishing Inc. (OAE) is a multidisciplinary open- access publishing company. They offer journals covering topics like biology, life sciences, medicine, engineering, and environmental science. It is financed by capital investment companies in addition to article processing fees. • Accessibility policy: Most articles are in open access. • Links to documents: https://www.oaepublish.com/alljournals

• Address: Intelligence & Robotics is headquartered at the same address as OAE Publishing Inc. • Website: https://www.oaepublish.com/ir • Purpose: As suggested by its name, this journal, part of OAE Publishing Inc., specializes in robotics and artificial intelligence. • Accessibility policy: Most articles are in open access. • Links to documents: https://www.oaepublish.com/ir

• Address: Hoboken, New Jersey, at 111 River St, United States • Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com • Purpose: This company is part of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Its revenues primarily come from sales of its products and services. These include academic journals, books, online learning platforms, research solutions, licensing agreements, and partnerships. It provides papers on many topics, including computer science, mathematics, medicine, psychology, laws, environmental science, etc., • Accessibility policy: Paid and free release papers • Links to documents: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com

• Address: 1021 Medical Arts Avenue Northeast, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA • Website: https://journals.lww.com/mgar/pages/default.aspx • Purpose: This international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal focuses on research on medical gases and their applications. It is published by STM Publishing Group Pty Ltd. • Accessibility policy: Free articles published under the Creative Commons Attribution license. • Links to documents: https://journals.lww.com/MGAR/pages/currenttoc.aspx

• Address: STM Publishing is headquartered at 5 Ward Street, Willoughby, NSW 2068, Australia. • Website: https://www.stmpub.com/ • Purpose: This company specializes in scientific and technological publishing. It offers journal publication, online databases, publishing technology, and consulting services. Its journals are reputed for neuroscience, aging, and regenerative medicine articles. • Accessibility policy: Many papers are offered in open access • Links to documents: https://www.stmpub.com/JournalHomepage/

• Address: 251 Kearny Street, San Francisco, California, USA • Website: https://www.academia.edu/ • Purpose: Sharing network that aims to provide knowledge to all public. Tuition fees, government funding, private donations, research grants, and commercial ventures finance it. It makes available all types of scientific and technical documentation. • Accessibility policy: All documents are available free of charge • Links to documents: https://www.academia.edu/

• Address: Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, USA • Website: https://books.google.com/ • Purpose: Google Books provides all types of documents, some of which are ancient and numerized by the company. Google LLC is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. • Accessibility policy: paid and free documents, • Links to documents: https://books.google.com/

• Address: 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 4RN - United Kingdom • Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/ • Purpose: Taylor & Francis is a subsidiary of Informa PLC (https://www.informa.com/), a publicly traded multinational company listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: INF). It provides all types of scientific and technical documents, some of which discuss diving, underwater vehicles, and construction engineering. • Accessibility policy: Paid and free download papers. • Links to documents: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showPublications? pubType=journal&ejf=on https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?AllField=Diving https://www.tandfonline.com/action/doSearch?AllField=Remotely +Operated+vehicles

Governmental research organizations: Governmental research organizations play a vital role in advancing scientific and technological knowledge for both military and civilian purposes. These organizations are usually funded and supervised by government agencies or ministries, and they frequently collaborate with universities and other research institutions to conduct both fundamental and applied research. Some of these organizations provide free documents through their websites or other publication systems. Their documents often serve as references for standardization bodies.

• Address: Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, 3, rue des Archives, 29238 Brest, Brittany - France • Website: https://hal.univ-brest.fr • Purpose: HAL-UBO (Archive ouverte Universite de Bretagne Occidentale) is an open archive system and a national multidisciplinary repository for research-level scientific works. It is managed by the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO) and provides numerous documents on underwater activities, including some reports on COMEX experimentations. • Accessibility policy: Free-of-charge documents, some of which are not accessible to non-academic personnel. • Links to documents: https://cnrs.hal.science/IUEM/browse/doctype https://hal.univ-brest.fr/COMEX-ORPHY/search/index/?qa%5Btitle_ t%5D%5B%5D=*&qa%5Bauth_t%5D%5B%5D=&qa%5Bstructure_ t%5D%5B%5D=&qa%5Btext%5D%5B%5D=&submit=+Lancer+ la+recherche

• Address: The US Navy Naval sea System Command is based at 1333 Isaac Hull Avenue, SE Washington Navy Yard, DC 20376 - USA • Website: https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home • Purpose: The US Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is responsible for engineering, building, and maintaining the US Navy's ships, submarines, and combat systems. It publishes US Navy diving and underwater vehicles procedures.. • Accessibility policy: Free-of-charge public release documents. • Links to documents: https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/SUPSALV/00C3-Diving/Diving- Publications/

• Address: The US Defence Tactical Information Center is headquartered at 8725 John J. Kingman Road Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 22060-6218 - USA • Website: https://discover.dtic.mil/ • Purpose: The mission of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is to preserve, curate, and share the knowledge resulting from the U.S. Department of Defense's investment in science and technology. It serves as a repository for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business information. It provides numerous documents, some of which relate to underwater activities. • Accessibility policy: Free-of-charge public release documents • Links to documents: https://discover.dtic.mil/results/?q=Diving#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q= Diving&gsc.page=1

• Address: The US Naval Medical Research Center is located at 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910 - USA • Website: https://www.med.navy.mil/Naval-Medical-Research- Command/ • Purpose: The Naval Medical Research Center's (NMRC) mission is to enhance the health, safety, and readiness of Navy and Marine Corps personnel. • Accessibility policy: Free-of-charge public release documents • Links to documents: https://scispace.com/institutions/naval-medical-research-center- ttw9hqi9?form=MG0AV3

• Address: Chemin de Blandonnet 8 CP 401 – 1214 Vernier, Geneva - Switzerland • Website: https://www.iso.org/home.html • Purpose: ISO is a non-governmental organization (NGO) established under Swiss law to compile and publish internationally recognized standards. It operates as a membership- based organization, composed of national standards bodies from over 160 countries as its members. The organization provides all types of standards. • Accessibility policy: The standards are sold through the website of the organization and numerous resellers. • Links to documents: https://www.iso.org/home.html

• Address: The European Committee for Standardization (CEN ) is headquartered at rue de la Science 23, 1040 Brussels - Belgium • Website: https://www.cen.eu • Purpose: CEN is officially recognized as a European standards body by the European Union, the European Free Trade Association, and the United Kingdom. It develops and defines voluntary standards at the European level, which are known as European Norms (EN). These standards are implemented by the national members of CEN as national standards, ensuring consistency across 34 European countries. • Accessibility policy: The European noms are sold through the standardization bodies of the members, which may lead to variations in pricing. Additionally, some governments may release certain norms free of charge for safety reasons. • Links to documents: https://standards.cencenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=CEN:105::RESET::::

• Address: The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is headquartered at 1899 L Street, N, 11th Floor, Washington, DC 20036 - USA • Website: https://www.ansi.org/ • Purpose: ANSI is a private non-profit organization overseeing the development of consensus standards in the United States. It also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards. This organization often justifies its standards by studies. • Accessibility policy: Paid documents only • Links to documents: https://webstore.ansi.org/

• Address: The UK HSE's headquarters is located at Redgrave Court, Merton Road, Bootle, Merseyside, L20 7HS - UK • Website: https://www.hse.gov.uk/ • Purpose: The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a British public body responsible for the regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety, and welfare. It was established by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and has published numerous standards and studies, many of which focus on underwater activities. • Accessibility policy: Most documents are publicly released; a few are to be paid • Links to documents: https://www.hse.gov.uk/guidance/industries.htm https://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/researchreports.htm

• Address: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is head quartered at 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210 - USA • Website: https://www.osha.gov/ • Purpose: OSHA is the federal agency under the U.S. Department of Labour (DOL) responsible for ensuring safe and healthy working conditions. • Accessibility policy: Accessibility Policy: Free Release Papers and Paid Documents • Links to documents: https://search.osha.gov/search/docs?affiliate= usdoloshapublicwebsite&dc=1979&query=list+of+standards