Fire Suppression Systems on Liveaboards

Liveaboards typically rely on a layered approach to fire safety: using built-in suppression systems for engine spaces and galley areas paired with portable equipment for cabins and common spaces.

Fire Suppression System

DAN DISPATCH: DAN Summer Research Internship

More than 100 interns over 20 years have participated in DAN’s internship programs, working with established mentors in research, risk mitigation or medicine to gain knowledge and valuable professional experience while contributing to DAN operations. This year five interns traveled to Durham, North Carolina, to participate in the program.

Is Something Wrong?

MY BUDDY AND I DIVED SIX OUT OF SEVEN DAYS on my last dive trip. Our profile allowed an hour of dive time with two-tank dives …

Scuba diver exploring reef

Recrutement pour la recherche DAN

DAN RESEARCH recherche en permanence des plongeurs, des chercheurs et des professionnels de la santé pour soutenir bénévolement son travail. En fonction de votre disponibilité et de votre lieu de résidence, vous pourriez participer en tant que plongeur à une étude de DAN Research - en ligne ou dans l'eau. 

Recherches DAN

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.

Stephen Frink Digital Master Class, Key Largo, Florida Keys

Élaboration des directives sur la toxicité de l’oxygène

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.

A U.S. Navy SEAL prepares to emerge from a SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV)

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.

Hyperbaric Chamber Demonstration

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.

DAN first aid training

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.