Cardiovascular Disease and Diving
DAN® medical information specialists and researchers answer your dive medicine questions on cardiovascular disease and diving.
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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.
Shooter: Jill Heinerth
Jill Heinerth is a world-class cave diver who shoots both still photographs and video. She prides herself on storytelling and loves being in the water.
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Working with Freedivers
Photographing humans underwater is unique because you are not capturing them in their natural habitat, which presents an enormous set of challenges, the biggest of which are the responsibilities and risks involved in breath-hold diving.
Dauin Diversity
Dauin is a peaceful beach village about 30 minutes by car from Dumaguete City (and its airport), and the area also features near the top of Philippine must-dive lists.
Makos Matter
Often caught accidentally when fishing for tuna or marlin, mako shark populations are in serious trouble. But, demand for their prized fins and meat continue to drive commercial fishers to retain and kill them.
Banda Bound
There is no single dive experience in Indonesia. Dive operators have created a subset of itineraries around the hub of the domestic airport and each dive experience is good.
Member to Member: Asking Questions in the Open Ocean
Cookiecutter sharks and pygmy sharks are unusual to see because of where they live, but they are common from the perspective of total oceanic diversity.
Travel Smarter: DAN Travel Insurance
DAN Travel Insurance policies provide flexible coverage for some of the most common problems travelers face. With a DAN travel insurance policy — per-trip or annual — travelers can avoid significant financial loss resulting from illness, injury, adverse weather, canceled flights and even unlikely situations such as the financial default of a travel supplier.
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