Be Informed and Stay Calm
Even when in distress, it’s important to keep your regulator in place. Securing it can be the difference between a bad situation and a potentially life-threatening one.
Alert Diver Category: Skills in Action
Lessons Learned
Always dive with a buddy, and always do your predive safety checks. Should a life-threatening situation arise, don’t panic. Taking the extra time for both yourself and your buddy before getting in the water is important for every diver on every dive.
Keep Breathing
Be prepared for unexpected underwater situations by taking the initiative to be a responsible diver, keeping your cool and following your training.
Keep Pushing
CPR skills can come in handy at any time and in any situation. A family vacation was interrupted when an individual needed CPR, and the family sprang into action with their medical training. Read their story.
DEMP: For More Than Dive Emergencies
Life-threatening injuries happen, even outside of the dive environment. Dive-related first aid training can be useful in these scenarios.
Keep Calm, and Be Prepared
Dive courses often prepare you for marine life stings. But are you prepared to treat insect stings? Thanks to emergency training, a scuba instructor was able to assist a woman who had a bee allergy.
Dive Principles for Coping with COVID-19
Millions of people have lost their jobs due to the pandemic, many fear losing their homes, and their fears of financial and food insecurity are real, immediate and pressing. Health-care workers face the direct threat of COVID-19 infection every day. People are confronting real fears, and they need our support. We can’t spend the next few months underwater to hide from the coronavirus. We can, however, practice a few basic principles of safe, skillful diving that have immediate application in our everyday lives during these times.