BLOGWhy Should I Always Call DAN in Case of Emergency?
Many associate DAN Europe with insurance. But while it is true that all the DAN Europe members are provided with insurance coverage, it is actually...
15 May 2013
Preconditioning and DCI
It is generally accepted that the most important risk factors for decompression illness (DCI) are dive time and depth. Divers are also very interested in...
By Brian Harper
15 May 2013
Fitness On Board
While on a dive vaction, the key to improve your dives is keeping a constant level of fitness and flexibility. The following exercises can be...
15 May 2013
Never too old to dive
Providing you have a regular annual dive medical and have no identified medical issues that would prevent you from diving, it is quite possible to...
By Laura Swash
15 May 2013
Do not think lightly about using a surface marker buoy.
This is going to be the last blog of this journey, which has abruptly come to an end and it has to be written. The...
15 May 2013
One Name, many magazines!
DAN is a global entity made of five sister OrganisationsDAN AmericaDAN EuropeDAN JapanDAN Southern AfricaDAN Asia PacificMost of them publish their own Alert Diver magazine,...
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04 March 2013
Your IDEAS
This brand new column lists all contents submitted by new contributors and Alert Diver readers, that have been checked and approved by Alert Diver Web...
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01 March 2013
Perception of Reality and Hydration in Divers
One notable accomplishment of Steve Jobs (editor’s note: the late founder of Apple Computers) was the creation of Reality Distortion Fields (RDF). It appears that entering...
15 January 2013
The Hyperbaric Centres of the DAN Europe Network: Sharm el Sheik
Director of the Hyperbaric Medical Center (HMC) of Sharm el Sheikh and Dahab, Egypt, and Scuba diving instructor since the eighties, Dr. Taher is considered...
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15 January 2013
To Stop or Not To Stop…? And Why
This is when it happens. You're coming up from a great dive, approaching safety-stop depth, when internal conflict begins. What you really want is to...
15 January 2013
An International Overlook on Diving: Excerpts from the DAN Day 2012 in Japan
Each year, DAN Japan hold discussions on safe diving, with renowned specialists coming from all over the world, sharing their experience and studies. What follows...
15 January 2013
Curiosities and facts about Japan
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...
15 January 2013
