Traveling Light
When traveling to dive, consider taking along any of your own gear that’s complex, such as your dive computer, or that enhances your personal comfort or enjoyment, such as your mask or fins.
Alert Diver Issue: Q3 2017
Left at Sea
When diving offshore, always carry emergency signaling devices such as a surface marker buoy, signal mirror and emergency strobe.
A New Mission
Force Blue involves highly skilled military veterans in marine conservation efforts. The veterans work with marine scientists on initiatives including invasive species (lionfish) removal.
Recompression Chamber Safety
DAN promotes safe chamber operations with research, education and training. Learn more about recompression chamber safety.
DAN Member Profile: Cristina Mittermeier
Cristina Mittermeier has been recognized as a Sony Artisan of Imagery, one of Outdoor Photographer magazine’s 40 Most Influential Nature Photographers and a recipient of the Nature’s Best Photography Windland Smith Rice International Conservation Photographer of the Year award.
Extreme Exposure
Richard Moon, M.D., has spent his career studying phenomena of great interest to scuba divers — including decompression sickness. Learn more about the researcher Richard Moon.
Diving with Dinosaurs
Considered critically endangered, smalltooth sawfish are under pressure from anglers who would take their rostrums as souvenirs and from the shark-fin trade. Many divers can go their whole lives without seeing one.
Saturation Diving
What is saturation diving? When the diver breathes in inert gas, it dissolves into the body’s tissues and reaches equilibrium with the ambient pressure at the diver’s depth.
Member to Member: Sunscreen and Coral
Sunscreen pollution is a serious threat to the world’s coral reefs causing fast degradation. But, divers can combat the effects of this pollution with simple steps.
So Others May Live
Can your training prepare you for absolute worst conditions? One writer took the challenge to find out what it was like being a rescue swimmer.
