BLOGFeatures
The DAN Multitool: Your Pocket-Sized Save-A-Dive Kit
Why every diver should carry this compact companion, and how it can keep your equipment performing at its best. Every diver has a few trusted items...
30 December 2025
Cristian Pellegrini
Cristian Pellegrini is a digital marketing and communications specialist at DAN (Divers Alert Network) Europe, and editor of Alert Diver Magazine, the international online diving magazine promoting DAN’s mission. A scuba diving instructor and full cave diver, he loves when his inner kid takes command, unleashing his creative spirit, and finds passion playing with words, visual stuff, and marine life.
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Diving inspiration
We can be Heroes: inside the Rebreather Forum 4 imagery
Rebreather Forum 4 (RF4) is the largest and most significant closed-circuit rebreather (CCR) event internationally, convening the top minds in the industry from around the...
20 April 2023
Dive stories
Divers with Disabilities Get Hands-on with Rebreathers for the First Time
People with disabilities are one of the most excluded groups in our society, and among the hardest hit in times of crisis, like the current...
02 December 2020
Medical Questions
Divers, Stay Positive Through the Pandemic
With many countries around the world currently under some form of lockdown, or travel restrictions, most people have had to put both their livelihoods and...
12 June 2020
Features
Fit Diver: Activation and Workout
How much time and money do you invest in choosing and purchasing the right dive equipment? Now ask yourself: are you really making the most...
27 November 2019
Dive stories
Young explorers grow
Education is at the core of any environmental initiative related to nature at large, and to the sea in particular. If we want to understand...
21 December 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
Features
12 little pleasures of diving
We've asked divers of all ages and levels what is the thrill, emotion, or experience that keeps bringing them back underwater. Here is what they...
27 October 2017
Medical line
Diving with diabetes: guidelines and latest research
For many years the medical community have advised against diving with diabetes. Diabetes is a disease which affects the endocrine system, the collection of glands...
14 September 2017
Features
20 reasons to choose a liveaboard dive trip in the Maldives
A liveaboard in the Maldives can be a thrilling and immersive experience into nature, adventure, and friendship. We picked out 20 ingredients that will turn it...
23 August 2017
Features
6 reasons to become a dive guide
They open the doors of unknown worlds for us, they point their torch towards unexplored corners, in order to make our dives unforgettable: they are...
31 March 2017
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