BLOGFeatures
#Divelocal: How Diving Is Getting Its Groove Back
Please note: the epidemiological and regulatory situation is constantly evolving, and we will do our best to keep you informed and updated of any changes...
29 October 2020
Michael Menduno
AlertDiver.eu contributing editor Michael Menduno is an award-winning journalist & technologist who has written about diving and diving technology for decades. He coined the term “technical diving.” His work has appeared in magazines such as Alert Diver, DeeperBlue.com, DIVER, Quest, Scientific American, Sports Diver, Undercurrent, Undersea Journal, WIRED and X-Ray. He founded and served as editor-in-chief for aquaCORPS Journal (1990-1996), which helped usher tech diving into the mainstream of sports diving. He also produced the first Tek, EuroTek and AsiaTek conferences. In addition, Michael serves as the editor-in-chief of InDepth, Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) online magazine.
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Insurance matters
Protect Your Ass(ets): Putting DAN Europe’s “Pro” Liability Insurance To Work For You
With diving season now underway in most areas, despite a slow start due to the pandemic, it's an excellent time for diving professionals, as well...
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Dive stories
Is There A Rebreather In Your Future?
How Leading Divers See The Future of CCROver the last two decades, the use of closed-circuit rebreathers (CCR) has grown steadily in the sports diving...
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Medical line
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Diving practices and training standards regarding inert gas narcosis (IGN) vary widely among the tech community. Arguably the most conservative, Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) mandates...
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Medical line
Measuring Inert Gas Narcosis
Though our understanding of the exact mechanisms and effects are still evolving, inert gas narcosis (IGN), which was poetically described as "l’ivresse des grandes profondeurs,"...
14 May 2020
Dive stories
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While the diving industry has been all but shuttered as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, some diving organizations are providing their unique expertise to...
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Features
Necessity, The Mother of Invention: The Story Behind DAN Europe’s Diving Insurance
European diving was booming in the early 1980s with the advent of dive travel and the birth of dive destinations like Sharm El Sheikh and...
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Insurance matters
Are You Covered? Considerations on Diving Insurance
Are you covered financially if you are injured on a dive trip? We all know and expect that if you get bent, your DAN Europe insurance...
01 April 2020
Medical line
Oxygen Window
The term “Oxygen Window,” (OW) was first used in designing decompression by Albert R Behnke (1967), It is based on an already described phenomenon of...
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Medical line
It’s The Metabolism, Stupid: A New Model for Bubble Formation
The risk of decompression illness (DCI) following a dive has been attributed to the presence and quantity of gas bubbles called “vascular gas emboli” (VGE)...
05 February 2020
Medical line
Gradient Factor Calculations
Developed by decompression researcher Erik Baker in the 1990s, Gradient Factors (GF) are commonly used with Buhlmann decompression models to adjust for conservatism. GF are...
07 November 2019
Medical line
Identifying Decompression Risk Factors
What can we learn about the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) by examining actual dive profiles and their outcomes? Actually, quite a lot. That was the...
16 October 2019
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