Introduction: After repetitive deep dives, breath-hold divers are often affected by a syndrome characterized by symptoms such as cough, chest constriction, hemoptysis and, rarely, an...
Public in general talks about health care like it’s a debatable issue. We weigh the pros and cons, we take sides, we argue. The truth...
After a long and accurate phase of tests, an innovative research project on Flying after Diving and no-fly time has just taken off. The project...
Travelling with kids, as one knows, requires a lot of care and attention. If the trip in question is in a faraway country, well known...
The annual meeting of International DAN (DAN America, DAN Europe, DAN Japan, DAN Southern Africa, DAN S. E. Asia Pacific) in 2012 was held in...
Almost six years have passed since DAN Europe first developed the DAN BLS course. This course immediately became popular amongst divers, several dive organisations, rescue...
(Editor’s note: the following is a shortened version of the article published in Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine – Vol. 82, No 8, August 2011)IntroductionBleomycin...
When one decides to buy a new insurance cover and has different plans to choose from, he often asks himself if it meets his requirements....
Most divers have at some point been nervous before or during a dive. That is completely natural. We plunge into a world that we were...
After the success of the last edition, the Diving Safety Laboratory, DAN Europe’s “mobile laboratory” is back in Canton Ticino for a new adventure in...
Yes, that’s right: the most aggressive fish of all is the clownfish. You’ve got it, Nemo himself. That little orange fish who looks so sweet...
Conventional wisdom holds that diving mammals do not suffer from decompression sickness (DCS). This is based on two key points: first, evolution has allowed them...
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