BLOGCardiovascular Fitness, Diving Diet and Exercise Go A Long Way, But Watch Your Medications, Too
Got Heart? We all do when it comes to diving: it’s why we dive. Our hearts are figuratively in our diving because we enjoy our sport....
15 April 2010
Stories
Underwater “Hot Flash”
I received a call one evening from a 51-year-old female medical professional. She had contacted Divers Alert Network for advice regarding an anxiety or paniclike...
15 April 2010
Attention to Detail
While on a recent training excursion to Mexico, I ran into an old friend from Ohio. It had been more than 25 years since we...
By Jeff Mayers
15 January 2010
Diving After Breast Cancer
"There was never a sea so blue or an ocean filled with so many things as my first dive after my diagnosis. I am now...
By Laurie Gowen
15 January 2010
Weighty Problems
Probably one of the most despised pieces of equipment that a diver has to don is the weight belt. Traditional weight belts consisting of a...
15 January 2010
Neuro Hit
The Diver The diver is an advanced open-water diver with additional training in enriched air diving. He is 35 years old, is in good general health...
15 January 2010
Pneumothorax and Its Consequences
Q: After sustaining a fractured rib and pneumothorax during a sports injury, a diver has asked why he could never dive again. What is the...
By Richard Moon
15 January 2010
DAN Research-Dal Safe Dive al Diving Safety Laboratory
Queste parole, così cariche di significato, furono ascoltate da un gruppo di subacquei accorsi a Malta per il primo corso del Research Field Operator. Era...
15 January 2010
DAN Begins Reporting on Incident Collection of Breath-Hold Diving
The Categories of Breath-Hold DivingBreath-hold diving is an in-water activity that exists in an occasionally difficult-to-define realm between swimming and compressed-gas diving. The awkwardness comes...
15 October 2009
Hyberbaric Oxygen Therapy
Treatment by hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) happens when close to 100 percent oxygen is administered at an increased pressure (typically two to three times that...
15 October 2009
Cerebral and Spinal Cord DCI
The dive vessel was seven hours from the nearest land. DAN helped enlist a rescue helicopter to evacuate the diver to the nearest hospital and...
15 October 2009
IDAN Chamber Attendant & Chamber Operator course
Several years ago DAN Europe started with the Recompression Chamber Assistance and Partnership Program (RCAPP) in the DAN Europe region. This is an initiative which...
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15 October 2009
