BLOGFlying After Diving
In 1989, DAN participated in the first flying after diving (FAD) workshop. It was sponsored by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society and reported on...
15 July 2009
Stories
Flirting With a Blue-Ringed Octopus (Again)
All divers have a sense of adventure, whether it's deep diving, following an underwater cave system or relishing a close encounter with venomous and yet...
15 July 2009
Hits Happen
Remember Harold Kushner's 1980s bestseller, When Bad Things Happen to Good People? This inspiring book explored why ordinary people - ourselves and people around us...
By Jeff Myers
15 July 2009
Differential Diagnosis
The Diver This is a 51-year-old female who is in good health. In the past year, she had two vertebrae in her neck (cervical vertebrae 5...
15 July 2009
Scuba Diving and Dental Implants
More people are electing to have failing or missing teeth replaced by dental implants. Traditional solutions for missing teeth include these types of implants: bridges,...
15 July 2009
Psychological Trauma and its Treatment
In the field of recreational and technical diving, traumatic situations can happen such as nitrogen narcosis, decompression sickness or assisting people who manifest with various...
15 July 2009
Diabetes and Diving
Diabetes is a disease in which the body is not able to produce or effectively respond to insulin, a hormone that is required to use...
15 July 2009
Fitness 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
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...
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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
