Richard Harris (anaesthetist)

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Richard James Dunbar Harris (born 1964) is an Australian cave diver and retired anaesthetist who became Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia in 2024. His participation in the Tham Luang cave rescue in 2018 earned him awards for bravery and service from Australia, and he was named Australian of the Year in 2019, along with his fellow diver, Craig Challen. Harris was born in Adelaide to parents who were a vascular surgeon and a nurse respectively. Harris has had a passion for diving since his childhood. He went to school at St Peter's College and received his medical degree from Flinders University in 1989. During his time in university, he was a diving instructor and started cave diving in 1985. Afterwards, he undertook his training as an anaesthetist in the United Kingdom, Adelaide, and New Zealand. While he was still practising medicine, Harris went on caving expeditions like Kija Blue in Western Australia in 2006 and Pearse Resurgence in New Zealand from 2007. He did medical aid in...

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