THE NEWEST EDITION OF DAN’S ANNUAL DIVING REPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE. While the release of the 2020 report was delayed, it offers fascinating insights, statistics, and case summaries of recreational dive incidents and fatalities that occurred in 2018.
DEPUIS 450 MILLIONS D'ANNÉES, certaines espèces de requins sont les prédateurs suprêmes du monde aquatique, contribuant à l'équilibre de l'écosystème marin, à la fois insondable et fragile. Mais même avec toute leur connaissance instinctive, nous voyons de plus en plus d'espèces sur nos listes d'espèces menacées.
Faith Ortins is a lifelong diver, and her love for the ocean and devotion to educating people about safe diving practices drive her dive career.
This year DAN interns participated in two field studies — a cardiac study and a venous gas embolism study — where they had the opportunity to work directly with participants and collect and analyze data.
L’Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch (AMITW) a connu un été exceptionnel en 2024. Au 31 juillet, les patrouilleurs d’AMITW avaient documenté 683 nids sur 15,4 kilomètres (9,6 miles) de plage sur l’île Anna Maria, en Floride.
In-water recompression (IWR) is a controversial topic in dive medicine. Some people think it is a potentially lifesaving last resort for a diver exhibiting symptoms of decompression illness (DCI) when far from definitive care. Others emphasize the evident risk of potentially making a bad situation worse.
At the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, Connecticut, nudibranchs have become storytellers for an issue facing our oceans that is difficult to understand yet imperative to know about: global climate change. The aquarium has taken a unique approach to educate the public on this global threat. Their new exhibit, A Slug’s Life: Facing the Climate Endgame, showcases the adored mollusk and runs through Sept. 6, 2021. The exhibit’s specific intent is to help guests understand the warnings that changing slug populations provide about the health of their habitats.
DAN HAS LAUNCHED A NEW SERIES of live monthly webinars on its DAN TV YouTube channel at youtube.com/user/DiversAlertNetworkTV. Throughout 2022, experts from DAN’s Research, Safety Services, and Medical Services teams will give presentations on topics relevant to divers, dive professionals, and dive business owners as we look beyond the pandemic and resume diving and traveling. […]
OXYGEN HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED AS THE PRIMARY FIRST AID for scuba diving injuries, specifically decompression sickness (DCS) and arterial gas embolism (AGE). Part of DAN’s mission is to ensure that oxygen first aid equipment …
MÊME SI J'AI ÉTÉ JOURNALISTE PHOTO pour le magazine Skin Diver pendant 17 ans, l'une des couvertures dont je me souviens le plus n'est pas celle que j'ai réalisée, mais un portrait de Stan Waterman que Geri Murphy a pris pour le numéro de septembre 1982.
