Incident insights
Barotrauma in Bonaire
The Diver On a recent trip to Bonaire with his dive club, Rick (a pseudonym) was completing his fourth dive of the day, which was his...
The Diver On a recent trip to Bonaire with his dive club, Rick (a pseudonym) was completing his fourth dive of the day, which was his...
Julika is a documentary filmmaker who travelled to Indonesia and then on to her dream destination Kri in West Papua. Although Julika is an experienced...
Divers Alert Network (DAN) takes great pride in being by your side, and for 30 years we have been conducting research to help make diving...
Experimenting anxiety, even only for a short period, is never pleasant. Even more when it is accompanied by its bad brother, panic, and even more...
During a divemaster course I taught many years ago, one candidate listened attentively to my rant about being a good role model and paying particular...
Q: We have a boy in our class who is eager to dive but has an old history of epilepsy. This period was confined to...
The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) estimates more than 4,500 hyperbaric chambers operate throughout the world. DAN draws on a worldwide database of about...
After the first series of questions and answers, we continue with the âfalse mythsâ about decompression. Many divers believe that the theory of decompression is an...
Introduction:Â âLung squeezeâ is a condition that is practically unique to Breath-Hold Diving. Scuba divers are not really aware of it and, sadly, most doctors have...
Through its educational outreach in the last years, DAN Training has developed and managed programs critical to dive safety and the management of diving injuries....
From riding a motorcycle to racing to the hospital: this was the end of the Egyptian stay of a 40-year-old Austrian enjoying a sabbatical to...
An Emergency Assistance Plan (EAP) or Contingency plan is a prerequisite for the successful rescue of an injured diver. This includes immediate on-site first aid...