Alert Diver Issue: Q3 2017

Inert Gas Washout

August 1, 2017

DAN medics and researchers answer your questions about dive medicine.

Four divers pose underwater

Traveling Light

August 1, 2017  Todd Yarbrough and Reilly Fogarty

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.

Masks, tanks, regulators and other rental gear stand by idly waiting for wearers.

Left at Sea

August 1, 2017  Peter Buzzacott, MPH, Ph.D.

When diving offshore, always carry emergency signaling devices such as a surface marker buoy, signal mirror and emergency strobe.

A group of divers pose in the water. They are holding an emergency signaling device.

A New Mission

August 1, 2017  Amy Lee

Force Blue involves highly skilled military veterans in marine conservation efforts. The veterans work with marine scientists on initiatives including invasive species (lionfish) removal.

Two divers extract invasive lionfish

Recompression Chamber Safety

August 1, 2017  Francois Burman, Pr. Eng, MSc.

DAN promotes safe chamber operations with research, education and training. Learn more about recompression chamber safety.

A group of doctors stand outside of a hyperbaric chamber chatting

Recompression Chamber Safety

August 1, 2017  Francois Burman, Pr. Eng, MSc.

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.