Alert Diver Category : Rubrique Ardoise de plongée

To advance DAN’s mission to help divers during emergencies and to make diving safer, DAN launched the Continuing Education for Dive Professionals program in 2024. The program’s second course, which […]

Wreck diving became the rage of dive tourism in the wake of the 1977 blockbuster movie The Deep.

If you notice health changes during or soon after a dive, you should assume that it is related to diving. The most likely culprit is decompression illness (DCI), the likelihood of which increases with the severity of the dive. If DCI is suspected, you should receive first aid surface oxygen and a proper medical evaluation. Even if your condition is not DCI, first aid oxygen may still help and will not worsen your condition.

MY FELLOW DIVERS WERE ECSTATIC AFTER A TWILIGHT DIVE on the Okinawa wreck near Pompano, Florida, in early June 2019. I was shooting wide angle and hadn’t paid much attention to small creatures during the dive, but they had found the holy grail for macro photographers: nudibranchs — in this case, regal sea goddesses (Felimare […]

La plupart des gens connaissent l'importance historique du jour J, ce jour tristement célèbre où les forces alliées ont débarqué sur les côtes de l'Europe occidentale le 6 juin 1944.

Few people, however, know the story of the men who went into these enemy waters before them. Armed with nothing but a mask, fins, and a knife …

DU CERCLE ARCTIQUE À L'ANTARTICA, si vous avez déjà respiré une bouteille de plongée, il y a de fortes chances que cette bouteille ait été remplie à l'aide d'un compresseur d'air respirable Stark Industries. Depuis un demi-siècle, les opérateurs de plongée et les stations de remplissage du monde entier utilisent les compresseurs Stark pour remplir les bouteilles des plongeurs et font confiance à leur qualité pour répondre aux exigences quotidiennes.

There has been much discussion in the dive industry about incidents and accidents that require emergency exits from liveaboards. While we understand emergencies are possible, we will continue to travel on liveaboards, so we should be prepared for the unexpected.

Timor-Leste, or East Timor, is one of the world’s newest countries, having gained independence from Indonesia in 2002 after decades of conflict.

While staff from DAN’s Research, Safety Services, and Medical departments were attending the recent European Underwater and Baromedical Society conference in France to present their latest work, they were able to visit the nearby French naval submarine base and board an active-duty submarine carrying nuclear warhead payloads. 

In search of beavers, my colleagues and I followed the Cap-Chat River on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula to a village of immaculate, steep-roofed houses that shares the river’s name. Near the […]