As published in past articles of Alert Diver, microbes from different sources, transmitted via diving equipment, can be a true threat to scuba divers. In fact, rented equipment and rinsing tanks can pool a high load of bacteria, fungi, viruses, and amoebas with the potential to spread diseases. Don’t think… Continue reading
Divers Alert Network (DAN) takes great pride in being by your side, and for 30 years we have been conducting research to help make diving safer. Recently, DAN researchers reviewed our accumulated fatality data and conducted a root cause analysis of nearly 1,000 recreational diving fatalities to determine what circumstances… Continue reading
Buoyancy control, perhaps one of the more confounding aspects of safe diving, is the subject here. Regulating buoyancy is not always easy, especially for beginners, and even experienced divers can lose control of it from time to time. Unfortunately, when buoyancy becomes a problem, peril may follow. Diver 1… Continue reading
Experimenting anxiety, even only for a short period, is never pleasant. Even more when it is accompanied by its bad brother, panic, and even more when it is not experienced on land, but underwater. The reason why healthy subjects without a history or family history of anxiety or panic suddenly… Continue reading
