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Scuba Diving Safety
Smart divers play safe with DAN
You’ve explored the great wrecks of Truk Lagoon, you’ve dallied with mantas and pelagics from Manado to Sipadan. Now you’re considering upgrading your equipment, maybe splashing out on a dive computer. Hold it right there! Think first about a much smaller expenditure, but one which could someday mean the difference between life and death.
More than 160,000 recreational divers worldwide have already made the decision to become members of the Divers Alert Network (DAN), a nonprofit organisation dedicated to establishing better safety standards for divers. Founded in 1980 at Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina, DAN has a threefold objective: to provide emergency medical assistance in case of underwater accidents; to conduct research into ways of preventing accidents; and to promote general diving safety.
BREATHING EASIER
One of the main activities is training divers to recognize the symptoms of major diving injuries or illnesses, and to provide "emergency oxygen" first aid training. Using emergency oxygen shortly after decompression problems develop can significantly improve a diver’s dances for full recovery. In the US, DAN research has helped persuade the authorities that emergency oxygen should continue to be available without prescription, and recommends that all divers be trained to administer 100% oxygen in the field. DAN offers a four-hour entry-level course in oxygen safety techniques: and an eight hour course certifying scuba diving educators to teach the entry-level course.
Other DAN priorities include investigating the causes of decompression illness (DCI). developing therapies for it, and producing guidelines to help reduce its incidence. Results of this research have been useful to doctors around the world. In addition, the organisation is building an international computer database to monitor divers and record their dive profiles. The aim: to identify DCI causes and thereby recommend likely prevention measures.
A helping hand
Benefits offered by DAN for members include insurance coverage for evacuation and ambulance fees, hyperbaric chamber treatment, emergency medical fees and hospital care. All policies cover you for diving emergencies, but you can also opt for extra cover for all in-water injuries; emergency accommodation and air travel; and up to US$2500 for lost diving equipment. DAN’s Travel Assist programme is also useful, as it provides assistance for any injury or illness whether or not related to diving that’s incurred when members are over 80 km from home. DAN also offers training material to individuals, shops and dive clubs.
Divers Alert Network organisations exist in Europe, Japan, the USA and Australia. DAN Southeast Asia-Pacific works in close co-operation with the Diving Emergency Service and Singapore Navy hotlines, to provide assistance to divers in distress. They offer a 24-hour evacuation service for all members in Asia.
You’ve explored the great wrecks of Truk Lagoon, you’ve dallied with mantas and pelagics from Manado to Sipadan. Now you’re considering upgrading your equipment, maybe splashing out on a dive computer. Hold it right there! Think first about a much smaller expenditure, but one which could someday mean the difference between life and death.
More than 160,000 recreational divers worldwide have already made the decision to become members of the Divers Alert Network (DAN), a nonprofit organisation dedicated to establishing better safety standards for divers. Founded in 1980 at Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina, DAN has a threefold objective: to provide emergency medical assistance in case of underwater accidents; to conduct research into ways of preventing accidents; and to promote general diving safety.
BREATHING EASIER
One of the main activities is training divers to recognize the symptoms of major diving injuries or illnesses, and to provide "emergency oxygen" first aid training. Using emergency oxygen shortly after decompression problems develop can significantly improve a diver’s dances for full recovery. In the US, DAN research has helped persuade the authorities that emergency oxygen should continue to be available without prescription, and recommends that all divers be trained to administer 100% oxygen in the field. DAN offers a four-hour entry-level course in oxygen safety techniques: and an eight hour course certifying scuba diving educators to teach the entry-level course.
Other DAN priorities include investigating the causes of decompression illness (DCI). developing therapies for it, and producing guidelines to help reduce its incidence. Results of this research have been useful to doctors around the world. In addition, the organisation is building an international computer database to monitor divers and record their dive profiles. The aim: to identify DCI causes and thereby recommend likely prevention measures.
A helping hand
Benefits offered by DAN for members include insurance coverage for evacuation and ambulance fees, hyperbaric chamber treatment, emergency medical fees and hospital care. All policies cover you for diving emergencies, but you can also opt for extra cover for all in-water injuries; emergency accommodation and air travel; and up to US$2500 for lost diving equipment. DAN’s Travel Assist programme is also useful, as it provides assistance for any injury or illness whether or not related to diving that’s incurred when members are over 80 km from home. DAN also offers training material to individuals, shops and dive clubs.
Divers Alert Network organisations exist in Europe, Japan, the USA and Australia. DAN Southeast Asia-Pacific works in close co-operation with the Diving Emergency Service and Singapore Navy hotlines, to provide assistance to divers in distress. They offer a 24-hour evacuation service for all members in Asia.