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Immersion Pulmonary Oedema: A diving safety concern?
Immersion Pulmonary Oedema/Edema (IPO/IPE) might not be the most common safety concern or health problem during diving, but it probably is one of the most...
07 August 2023
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HRV and Decompression Induced Physiological Stress
Editor's note: We present here a contributor's analysis on a recent and vastly debated topic, shedding light on a study in which DAN Europe researchers...
06 June 2023
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Could optimising a diverâs hydration and temperature improve their decompression safety?
Over the last two decades, hyperbaric researchers, and subsequently divers, have come to understand that proper hydration is important in reducing the risk of decompression...
29 August 2022
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DAN Europe Physiciansâ Field Experience Regarding Diving After Covid-19
There is still much we do not know about COVID-19, and information about the virus and its impact on divers is still evolving. For that...
09 April 2021
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What You Should Know About Diving After Covid-19
UPDATE February 2022 In response to member inquiries, our evolving understanding of the impacts of Covid-19 on divers, and considering the evolution of variants on vaccinated subjects,...
09 April 2021
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Finding wellbeing in diving via improved regulation
You finish dealing with a problem and notice that your breathing rate is faster than usual. You pause for a few moments and it settles...
By Laura Walton
04 March 2021
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Medications for Depression and Fitness to Dive
Depression: Who Gets Depressed? It's not as uncommon as you may think. Even divers get depressed. Some of the more frequently asked questions on the DAN...
By Laurie Gowen
17 February 2021
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Rapture of the Tech: Depth, Narcosis and Training Agencies
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...
20 May 2020
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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 "lâivresse des grandes profondeurs,"...
14 May 2020
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Oxygen Window
The term âOxygen Window,â (OW) was first used in designing decompression by Albert R Behnke (1967), It is based on an already described phenomenon of...
18 February 2020
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Itâs 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 âvascular gas emboliâ (VGE)...
05 February 2020
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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
