Peter B. Bennett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter B. Bennett

medical researcher and founder of the Divers Alert Network

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1931

Place of Birth: Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Profession: professor, chief executive officer, president, organizational founder

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Peter B.
Bennett (born June 12, 1931) is the founder and former president and CEO of the Divers Alert Network (DAN), a non-profit organization devoted to assisting scuba divers in need.
He is a professor of anesthesiology at Duke University Medical Center, and is currently the Senior Director of the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology at Duke.
Bennett is recognized as a leading authority on the effects of high pressure on human physiology. Bennett was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England.
He was employed at the Royal Navy Physiology Laboratory near Portsmouth for 20 years, beginning in 1953.
During this time, he formed and headed the Defence and Civil Institute for Environmental Medicine in Canada.