BLOGDAN 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
MDD neurologica
Il subacqueo Il sub è un advanced open-water specializzato in immersione con aria arricchita. Ha 35 anni, è in buona forma fisica, non ha avuto...
15 January 2010
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
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
Neurological DCI
The DiverThe diver is a 27-year-old female scuba instructor who has been certified for four years. A technical diver, she has made more than 250...
15 October 2009
Listen to What Your Body Tells You
My daughter suffers from an occasional migraine. As a precursor to one of these "knock-her-off-her-feet" headaches, she starts to see "black splotches." She knows that...
By Jeff Mayers
15 October 2009
A Cause for Concern
After major surgery, you should not resume diving until you can exercise safely. Warm weather is here in the Northern Hemisphere, and many of us...
15 October 2009
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
Relieving the Pressure
You’ve just completed your last dive of the day, and as you’re packing your gear you notice a twinge in your shoulder. Recalling that the...
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
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
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
