BLOGFeatures
Dive Smarter: Know Your Rental Gear!
Imagine renting a car in an unfamiliar city, navigating traffic on unfamiliar roads, and then finding yourself in a heavy rainstorm — only to realize...
06 March 2024
Stories
Prepared diver
Carbon Dioxide – the Dreaded Enemy (part 1)
This is the first part of a three-part series on carbon dioxide, a common contributor to diving emergencies. Parts two and three will be published in...
By Tim Blömeke
01 February 2024
Features
Into the wild: diving beyond one’s limits
Wisdom: How was the dive then? First dive since you finished your open water course, must have been pretty exciting, right? Foolishness: Oh Man… The wreck...
By Audrey Cudel
12 January 2024
Prepared diver
Which ear drops?
Editor's note This is the last article of our Equaleasy series, which is based on a course on equalization developed in a collaboration between DAN Europe...
10 November 2023
Prepared diver
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Teaming Up With a Rebreather Diver
Open-circuit and rebreather divers can be on the same team – to the benefit of both parties, as long as certain precautions are observed. With rebreathers...
By Tim Blömeke
28 September 2023
Medical line
Immersion Pulmonary Oedema: A diving safety concern?
Immersion Pulmonary Oedema/Edema (IPO/IPE) might not be the most common safety concern or health problem during diving, but it probably is one of the most...
By Guy Thomas
07 August 2023
Safety
Cylinder valves and accidents in scuba diving
One would expect diving cylinder valve connections to be the same all over the world. However, this is not the case and there are some...
By Guy Thomas
24 July 2023
Medical line
HRV and Decompression Induced Physiological Stress
Editor's note: We present here a contributor's analysis on a recent and vastly debated topic, shedding light on a study in which DAN Europe researchers...
06 June 2023
Features
The Mirage of Mount Stupid: Diving and the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Unskilled and unaware of it – references to the Dunning-Kruger effect are popular in the dive community. However, the findings of the original research are...
By Tim Blömeke
24 April 2023
Features
Are rebreathers suitable for recreational divers? – Part 2
In part one this story, we reviewed the advantages of rebreathers for technical divers. In this second part, we examine the efficacy of rebreather technology...
By Mark Powell
20 March 2023
DAN Education
Equaleasy – Buoyancy and equalisation
How many times have our ears warned us that we were descending? It is often the ear, the part of our anatomy most sensitive to increasing...
28 February 2023
Features
Are rebreathers suitable for recreational divers? Part 1
Many of the pieces of equipment used by technical divers look different to the equipment used by recreational divers. However, for most of the time,...
By Mark Powell
16 February 2023
