BLOGCreatine and Diving: Is it Good for You?
How does taking creatine affect your diving?...
11 March 2026
Tips for Diving Responsibly While on Regular Medication
How to Stay Safe and Dive Responsibly While Managing Your Medications Diving opens up an incredible underwater world full of adventure and discovery. But what if...
By DAN Staff
09 October 2025
Mixing Diving and Drugs – NSAIDs Show Potential for DCS Treatment
Can Common Medications Like Ibuprofen Help Treat the Bends? What Divers Need to Know....
02 September 2025
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...
By Guy Thomas
07 August 2023
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
Could optimising a diver’s 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
DAN Europe Physicians’ 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
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
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
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
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
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
