High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The professional divers of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America sponsored a Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society workshop in 1975 to look at the needs for Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) for the treatment of diving related injuries. This workshop established a need for medically trained personnel in offshore diving operations as well as suggested training standards for EMT divers. Following this workshop, attempts were made to incorporate a "Diver Medic Training Program" into existing paramedic curriculums. This proved to be impossible due to the "esoteric nature of undersea medicine, and its geographically and medically remote applications.