Travel Smarter: Consider the Weather
With some forethought, gear, and preparation, you may still enjoy your dive despite inclement weather conditions.
Alert Diver Category: Dive Slate
Recruiting for DAN Research
DAN RESEARCH IS CONTINUALLY LOOKING for divers, researchers, and health care professionals to volunteer to support our work. Depending on your availability and location, you might qualify as a diver in a DAN research study — online or in the water.
Benefits of Group Travel
Planning group travel through a local dive shop can help prevent people from taking advantage of you, because the dive shop has likely researched the vendors they use and may already have experience with them.
Developing Oxygen Toxicity Guidelines
In 1943 a hyperbaric chamber in London reached an air pressure equal to 300 feet (91 meters), and nitrogen narcosis hammered the three dry divers inside. They reached for the rubber mouthpieces of their dive gear, which delivered 100% oxygen.
SOS Hyperlite 1 Hyperbaric Chamber Demonstration
DAN Mission teams recently participated in a demonstration led by James Dalebozik, a hyperbaric chamber technician, on the operation and application of the SOS Hyperlite 1 portable hyperbaric chamber.
Before the Breath Runs Out
Join the ama divers in Ago Bay, Japan, and fulfill your dream of an unforgettable underwater adventure Before the Breath Runs Out.
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT: DAN Courses 3.0 Update
You are on the boat after a great dive when a buddy team surfaces, and one of them calls out for help. The boat crew helps get the distressed diver on board. Would you know what to do next? Whatever your level of dive training, or even if you are a nondiver dealing with an incident on land, DAN’s first aid training can help you know what to do and how to do it.
Tren Maya
SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOODED CAVES are underneath the jungle of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The peninsula began as a coral reef which sea-level fluctuations during various ice ages exposed to the atmosphere.
Entanglements
We’ve all seen tragic images of suffering marine animals entangled in monofilament line or other marine debris.
Leopard Seal
EVERY PHOTOGRAPHER HAS A DREAM SHOT. For a long time mine was to see a particular natural predation: a leopard seal hunting a penguin in Antarctica. When I traveled to Antarctica for the first time in 2018, I thought it would be a once-in-a-lifetime trip. Little did I know I’d be venturing back repeatedly over the next few years.
