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Prioritise your health and safety with Divernet as we delve into important aspects of diving medicine, with insights into dive-related health conditions such as decompression illness, ear and equalisation problems, IPOs, ability to dive with serious medical conditions and more.

The aim is to boost understanding and help divers to make informed decisions and go on having safe and enjoyable diving experiences.

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Neurological Decompression Sickness: How to Recognise the Warning Signs
Neurological Decompression Sickness: How to Recognise the Warning Signs
Dive Injuries Among Children: What DAN Data Reveals About Risks and Prevention
Dive Injuries Among Children: What DAN Data Reveals About Risks and Prevention
Vomiting underwater while scuba diving
Vomiting Underwater While Diving: A DAN Case Study on Regulator Clearing
How Does DAN Europe Deal With Diver Accidents? A Step-by-Step Guide for Divers
How Does DAN Europe Deal With Diver Accidents? A Step-by-Step Guide for Divers
Lionfish Stings: Symptoms, First Aid and What Divers Should Do
Lionfish Stings: Symptoms, First Aid and What Divers Should Do
Letterkenny Courthouse, County Donegal (Max Pride)
Irish diver’s death down to natural causes
If You Can’t Equalise, Abort: A Diving Barotrauma Incident Reviewed
If You Can’t Equalise, Abort: A Diving Barotrauma Incident Reviewed
Diving in Remote Areas: Managing Risk, Medical Emergencies and Evacuation Planning
Diving in Remote Areas: Managing Risk, Medical Emergencies and Evacuation Planning
Carbon Dioxide in Diving
Carbon Dioxide in Diving (Part 3) : Precautions and Safety Countermeasures
Drink and Dive? Just Say Nada! Why Alcohol and Scuba Don’t Mix
Drink and Dive? Just Say Nada! Why Alcohol and Diving Don’t Mix
When the Unexpected Happens: How a Reverse Block Nearly Ended a Dive
When the Unexpected Happens: How a Reverse Block Nearly Ended a Dive
The One Health Underwater scuba project
Younger divers: Does scuba boost your mental health?
Ask DAN: Malaria Prevention and Pulmonary Hypertension Risks in Diving
Ask DAN: Malaria Prevention and Pulmonary Hypertension Risks in Diving
Diving With a PFO: Risks, Testing, and Safe Diving Strategies
Diving With a PFO: Risks, Testing, and Safe Diving Strategies
How to Prevent and Treat Seasickness While Diving
Ask DAN: How to Prevent and Treat Seasickness While Diving
Middle ear barotrauma
Middle-Ear Barotrauma: Symptoms, Treatment & Safe Return to Diving
Can You Dive with Low Platelets? Medical Considerations for Divers
Jellyfish Stings Prevention And Treatment
Jellyfish Stings: Prevention, First Aid & Treatment for Divers
Ask DAN
Avoiding Barotrauma in Scuba Diving: Causes, Symptoms, and Prevention Tips
Dr Marroni and his colleagues
Hydration, Temperature & Decompression Safety: New Insights from DAN Research
Carbon Monoxide In dive tanks is invisible
Carbon Monoxide Detection for Divers: Spotting the Silent Killer Before It Strikes
Sometimes It's Just Dumb Luck
Decompression Sickness: A Diver’s First-Hand Account from Cozumel
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What is Inert Gas Washout in Diving? DAN Explains Decompression Sickness and Recovery
Skin Bends or Marine Life Injury? Plus: Diving Risks with Pulmonary Hypertension
Decompression Recovery After Hyperbaric Treatment
The Dreaded Enemy Pt II: Understanding Carbon Dioxide Risks in Diving
Contact Lenses and Low Iron Levels - What Divers Need to Know
Ask DAN: Contact Lenses and Low Iron Levels – What Divers Need to Know
Rob and Jan
Escape From The Bubble Cloud
Diver receiving a professional deep tissue massage at a resort spa after a scuba diving trip
Deep Tissue Massage After Diving: Is It Safe or a DCS Risk?
DAN member receiving oxygen after decompression sickness in Little Cayman
Don’t Let Complacency Kill You: A Diver’s Brush With Decompression Sickness in Little Cayman
Pushing the envelope
Pushing The Envelope: Deep Rebreather Diving Physiology and New CCR Research
Scuba Diving After Cataract Surgery
Is Scuba Diving After Cataract Surgery with Lens Implants Possible?
Is it safe to use a hot tub after diving?
Is It Safe to Use a Hot Tub After Diving? Effects on Off-Gassing and DCS
Liveaboard Safety|DAN World
Liveaboard Safety
Muffled hearing and ears feeling full post-dive
Fear And Loathing In Scuba Diving
Scuba safety (Rawpixel)
Before & after 2000: How scuba safety shifted
Ultrasound lung comet (Copilot)
Why even dive-pros should beware of CESAs
DCI book
DCI and how to avoid it: Free online book
chamber
Divers react as NHS seems ready to slash DCI cover
StingBlade skims off jellyfish barbs
(Kelly / Pexels)
Why snorkellers should take deaths probe to heart
The Diver Clinic (Google Maps)
Poole’s Diver Clinic to close doors shortly
Divers who survive IPO are advised not to re-enter the water (Pxhere)
IPO survivors ‘strongly advised’ to quit diving
Is the last tequila shot you drink the one that gets you drunk? (Taylor and Ayumi)
‘Like tequila shots’: Deep dive sinks diver’s insurance claim
Debunking the myths of equalisation in diving
Barotrauma and Common Diving Mistakes: Claudio Di Manao’s Insights on Equalisation
Diving while breast-feeding
Effective Care for Coral Scrapes: Tips for Healing and Skin Health
Diving while breast-feeding
Safe Diving Tips for Breastfeeding Moms
Equalisation
Mastering the Art of Equalization with Claudio Di Manao’s Expert Dive Techniques
Emergency call-centre (Picryl.com)
Suspected DCI? Here’s how to conduct neuro checks
Dental barotrauma
Understanding Dental Barotrauma: How Diving Can Affect Your Teeth
Chamber Diaries
Navigating Thermal Protection in Diving
Claudio Di Manao
Discover Seamless Buoyancy Control and Equalization with Equaleasy
Flying with middle-ear squeeze
Flying with middle-ear squeeze & Preventing Immersion Pulmonary Oedema
Bipolar disorder and diving
Bipolar Disorder and Diving – DAN World
NIGEL CRAIG
What happens to a diver charged with manslaughter?
Paul Rose: Still diving thanks to a Hyperlite 1
Jared Hires (Dive Rite)
Cave-diver Hires had unprovoked seizure in 2023
The two-person chamber at Oban (Tritonia Scientific)
Divers urged to back reprieve for Oban chamber
Helicopter effect
‘The dive that turned into my fight for life’
Snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef (Chris Brown)
Snorkel-deaths report questions IPO findings
Diabetes (pxhere.com)
’Can I still scuba dive with diabetes?’
DAN Academy of Dive Medicine
DAN Academy of Dive Medicine
Otinova Ear Spray
Otinova Ear Spray: Effective Relief for Swimmer’s Ear and Diver Ear Issues
Diver Sally de Courcy
Surviving IPO: A diver’s perspective
Dan Org
Decompression Sickness in Divers: Recognizing and Responding to ‘The Bends’
Diver Swimming near huge orange sponge
A Diver’s Warning: The Potential Risks of Marine Sponge Contact
Lungs (Rawpixel)
DDRC needs divers’ help on lungs

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