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Medications and Fitness to Dive
Our medical staff often receive questions on whether it’s safe to dive while taking a particular medication. Even though their is not a straightforward answer...
28 September 2018
Stories
Safety
The HIRA Programme
For 35 years, DAN Europe’s mission is making diving safer. This has been done by offering diving medical assistance and advice, performing research and sharing...
By Guy Thomas
25 September 2018
The Top 50 Cult Dive Spots
Cult Dive: the treasures of Jackson Reef (Part 1)
Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt. Between the island of Tiran and the Sinai east coast of, the Gulf narrows. In the middle of the Straits, an...
07 August 2018
Features
Portuguese Man-of-war alarm in the Mediterranean Sea
The Portuguese man-of-war not only has a melodious Latin name (Physalis physalis), but also an extremely beautiful structure. It's an ingenious product of evolution. It...
19 June 2018
Safety
The DAN HIRA Initiative: the promotion of a culture of safety at dive businesses
One more sliced finger from a dive ladder was the last straw for the DMO, called in to suture yet another significant dive-related injury. In...
11 June 2018
POP diving
POP Diving: when paper heroes scuba dive
It's 1952, and five years still need to go by before the premiere of 'The Silent World' award-winning movie by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle,...
11 May 2018
Safety
What are Standard Operation Procedures and how do they relate to diving safety
Standard Operation Procedures, or SOPs, are written documents that explain how to organize or do specific tasks, with the aim of creating a standardized and...
By Guy Thomas
16 April 2018
Features
Invisible crystals and regulator failures
Scuba equipment failure or malfunction is a relatively rare factor in diving-related accidents and fatalities. When it does occur, the most common and hazardous malfunctions...
15 February 2018
Incident insights
An Unexpected Earplug
The diver was a 58-year-old man with approximately 150 lifetime dives. He had hypothyroidism (low thyroid hormone levels) for which he took levothyroxine daily. He...
19 January 2018
Features
10 most-read articles of 2017 on Alert Diver
Here is a look back at our most popular pieces of the past twelve months. It's a diversified collection, from practical tips to inspiring writing...
29 December 2017
Member profile
The Art of Teaching: interview with Steve Martin
Steve Martin has been scuba diving for the past 18 years, and is now a world-renowned professional diving instructor specialising in cave diving and sidemount...
27 December 2017
POP diving
POP Diving: The Big Blue
BACKGROUND INFO and FACTS In the 60's and 70's, freediving world champions Jaques Mayol and Enzo Maiorca face one another in the blue, beating each other's records....
06 December 2017
