World Register of marine Cave Species (WoRCS)

The 5th European Conference on ?Scientific Diving (ECSD5 2019) was organised by the Scientific Diving TEAM of the Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAN) in Sopot, Poland. Conferences of this series were originally initiated by the European Scientific Diving Panel in 2015 by combining “The Research in Shallow Marine and Fresh Water Systems" and “The International Symposium on Occupational Scientific Diving" into one general meeting held once a year. The intent of ECSD is to provide a large, international forum for presenting the latest research results carried out in Europe using diving. ECSD conferences each time attract European leaders in the field of scientific diving and provide a convenient platform for exchanging experiences, establishing new contacts and future collaboration.
 
The WoRCS initiative was presented in ECSD5 2019 by Vasilis Gerovasileiou within his talk entitled “A decade of marine biological research in marine caves of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea”. WoRCS was presented as a valuable platform for exchanging biodiversity data on marine caves at the Mediterranean and global scale. The talk was part of the conference session “Speleology and geology” and was attended by an audience of around 70 people.