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.
Alert Diver Issue: Q3 2017
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.
Recompression Chamber Safety
Instead of simply listing requirements relevant to the safe recompression of injured recreational divers, DAN identified real, likely hazards, quantified their significance and presented mitigation guidance for each.
