Alert Diver Category: DAN Was There for Me

Soon after surfacing from her first dive of the day, Deborah Newman felt a spasm in her upper back followed by a squeezing sensation in her chest, hypersensitive skin, weakness and nausea.

While trying to eat a fish for lunch, a shark accidentally nipped a diver’s hand instead. The injury was bloody but thankfully, DAN provided needed assistance and guidance.

Learn about the unexpected Solomon Islands evacuation during our diving holiday in paradise and its shocking aftermath.

While diving in Cuba, a diver’s itchy rash didn’t seem immediately dire, but the condition quickly deteriorated. Seeking treatment was a complicated process, but the diagnosis was eventually skin bends.

Pain and a rash made one diver think she was having an allergic reaction to a marine sting. But when decompression sickness was suspected, she sought help. Read her story.

Don’t ignore seemingly random symptoms as they could be the result of a serious problem. One DAN member shares her story of how an uneventful dive changed her life.

On my way back to the campsite, my headlamp reflected off a pair of glowing green animal eyes, and in that split-second of distraction I lost my footing on the algae, which sent me tumbling head over heels more than 10 feet down the cliff face. I landed on my left foot with the full force of my body.

Raja Ampat refers to four main islands which are part of the larger collective area known as Bird’s Head Seascape — located in Indonesia. It is one of the world’s most biodiverse and rich tropical marine ecosystems..

Do you know free-flow procedures should an emergency situation arise? A diver calmly provided assistance to a diver who may have suffered a arterial gas embolism.