BLOGFitness and Diving
Fitness and diving; fitness for diving; fitness in diving; fitness to dive. As divers we've heard these expressions in our training classes, in dive publications...
15 April 2009
Stories
Plastic Surgery & Diving
This article only summarizes these procedures. Besides the risks given for each, other potential complications include bleeding, reaction to the anesthetic and infection. Patients should...
By Wesley Hyatt
15 April 2009
Keeping It Clean
We can all agree that, before a dive, clean ear canals with normally equalizing middle ears is ideal. But what about the ears that need...
15 April 2009
Editorial
Dear DAN Europe Members,Continuing in our effort to ever improve our relationship with our Members and to favour a more direct contact with the members...
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15 April 2009
Make scuba fun and safe for children
The European Child Safety Alliance, EuroSafe with the support of the European Commission released a new resource titled “Protecting children and youths in water recreation:...
15 April 2009
Painful Memories
Q: I get a headache about 10-15 minutes into my dive. It lasts throughout my dive but disappears within a few minutes of surfacing. What...
15 April 2009
Sleuthing to find the disease
In diagnosing decompression illness (DCI), we rely heavily on the various elements of the diver's history and the clinical exam. This is especially true when...
15 April 2009
The ‘P’ Phenomenon
"James Crook of Long Acre, had dropsy, jaundice, palsy, rheumatism, and an inveterate pain in his back. In three immersions, the swelling of his legs...
15 January 2009
