Continuing Education for Dive Professionals

Many professional and occupational fields — such as medicine, engineering, accounting, and insurance — require continuing education to maintain a current certification.

Dive professional speaking about dives around Wolf Island

Cruise Ship Safety

Cruise ships have extensive safety protocols in place, focusing on passenger safety in areas such as overboard incidents, onboard fires, illness outbreaks, and large-scale ship disasters.

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Beauty and Brawn

At 18 feet (5.5 meters) above sea level, Solares Hill is the highest point of land in Key West, Florida.

Jim Hench (right) installs a sensor at Eastern Dry Rocks with Mission: Iconic Reefs specialist James Emm.

Operasi Kolam Renang: Ketahui Sebelum Anda Pergi

WHEN IT COMES TO THE OCEAN, we know when to go and when to stay away. If it is standard practice to check conditions before a dive, shouldn’t we ask […]

wanita berenang di kolam renang

Melestarikan Sejarah: Leslie Leaney

LESLIE LEANEY IS RENOWNED for his dive history research and preservation. He has done this work through organizations such as the Cayman Islands’ International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame (where he has been the executive director for nearly 20 years), the Commercial Diving Hall of Fame, the Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences, the Santa […]

Sorotan Program: Produk DAN Menjadi Perlengkapan Terbaik Tahun 2022

SCUBALAB BARU-BARU INI MENGHADIRI EMPAT PRODUK DAN STORE dengan tempat di jajaran Gear of the Year 2022 dalam Scuba Diving edisi Maret 2023. Tim penyelam penguji meninjau lebih dari 100 produk di tujuh kategori dan memberikan penghargaan tinggi untuk produk DAN berikut ini untuk fungsionalitas dan nilai.

Penghargaan Gear of the Year 2022

Una-Una: A Hidden Paradise

Everything changed for Una-Una on July 14, 1983, when a volcanic eruption destroyed the central hub of Indonesia’s Togean Islands in central Sulawesi. Lava covered 90 percent of the island, and thick, black smoke rose into the sky more than 9 miles high. The Indonesian Navy had evacuated all 7,100 inhabitants when the volcano gave signs of its impending eruption, preventing any loss of life. 

Massive Gorgonia soft corals dot the offshore pinnacles

Ray Dalio

You don’t have to dive very deep into the world of finance to be aware of Ray Dalio. Journalist Bill Whitaker interviewed him in 2019 on the campus of Dalio’s firm, Bridgewater Associates, and introduced him this way: “This week on 60 Minutes we met Ray Dalio.

Dalio pilots an underwater DPV through a massive school of tropical reef fish

Boat Diving Safety Course Now Available

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 […]

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Discovery of the Dunraven

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

Soft corals grow on the upturned stern of the Dunraven wreck.