Diving at Altitude
DAN medical information specialists and researchers answer your dive medicine questions. In this issue: diving at altitude, hip fracture surgery, anticoagulant medications, aluminum oxide exposure, and acoustic neuromas.
Alert Diver Category: From the Medical Line
Children and Diving
Opinions vary among dive medicine experts about how to mitigate the complex issues around children and diving, such as age requirements, training levels and limitations. Children are still developing both physically and mentally, which affects the decision about whether a young diver is fully capable or requires some modification. Concerns about decompression sickness, out-of-air emergencies and gas toxicities that occur at greater depths affect depth-limitation guidelines, which vary among the training agencies.
