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Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a nonprofit scuba diving and dive safety association that provides expert medical advise for underwater injuries, emergency information, research and products.
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DAN Education Offers Instructors Three Ways to Stay Current
DAN Instructors and Instructor Trainers Can Update in Person or Online
When the 2010 Guidelines for Resuscitation were released and changed the way CPR is to be administered, DAN Education saw it as an opportunity to revise and enhance the education programs it offered divers. Training materials for all DAN Education courses are currently undergoing a redesign, updating materials to include new information, videos and...
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Registration Open for Rebreather Forum 3
 Conference Aims to Examine State of Recreational Rebreather Diving
Rebreathers represent some of the fastest-developing technology in recreational diving. As more and more divers adopt this technology, it becomes increasingly important to examine the state of rebreather use and develop protocols and recommendations to improve user safety.
From May 18-20, 2012, several industry leaders are gathering to do just that. Co-sponsored in part by DAN, PADI and the American Academy of Underwater Sciences...
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DAN Expands Per-Trip Insurance Offerings
Travelers Can Choose from Three Customizable Levels of Protection
For more than 30 years divers have known the value and quality of DAN membership and dive accident insurance. Traveling divers discovered that same value and quality when DAN launched travel insurance program. Always looking for ways to offer more to divers and nondiving travelers, DAN has expanded its per-trip travel insurance program, now giving travelers three customizable...
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New DAN Video Examines Dive Accident Management
?Dive Accident Management? is Third Installment of DAN Online Video Lecture Series
Since its debut in 2011, the online video lecture series from Divers Alert Network® (DAN®) has had divers clamoring for more. Featuring DAN experts discussing a variety of topics of common interest to divers, the videos have proven popular with those seeking to continue their dive safety education....
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DAN Donates Ten Gas Analyzers in Cozumel
Initiative Will Help Protect Against Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Contaminated breathing gas is a potential hazard of which every diver is aware. Breathing gas with high levels of carbon monoxide (CO) is of special concern, as the difficulty in detecting it can be a potentially fatal problem. Divers Alert Network® (DAN®) and Analox Sensor Technology have teamed up to help...
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Nominations Open for the 2012 DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year Award
Annual Award Honors Divers Who Make Significant Contributions to Dive Safety
Everyone has the ability to make a difference every day, but there are those who go so far above and beyond the call their contributions have far-reaching effects and influence the ways things are done. Do you know someone like that whose contributions have significantly impacted dive safety? If so, tell DAN about it, because nominations for the 2012 DAN/Rolex Diver of the Year Award are now being accepted.
Now in its...
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DAN MasterCard No Longer Benefits DAN
DAN Ends Agreements with Bank of America and MBNA
Since 2002 Divers Alert Network® (DAN®) has offered its members an opportunity to support DAN through the use of an affinity credit card. Initially offered by MBNA, in recent years most of the cards in the United States were replaced by Bank of America, while MBNA continued to offer the card in Canada. Earlier this year, DAN was advised Bank of America was discontinuing many of its affinity credit card offerings, including the one...
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Alert Diver Now Available for the iPad
 Digital Subscription Automatically Included with DAN Membership
DAN?s Alert Diver magazine has once again taken the industry-leading publication to a new level; the must-read quarterly is now available in a digital version for the iPad.
?Just as we are fully committed to ever-improving the quality of our print product,? said Stephen Frink, publisher of Alert Diver, ?we also realize there is a global audience for Alert Diver, and reaching them is important. Alert...
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DAN Now Accepting Applications for 2012 Research Internship Program
Program Offers Opportunities in DAN Dive Medicine and Research
Since 1999, the DAN® Research Internship Program has provided young adults interested in the science of diving with opportunities to develop that interest through internships in dive medicine and research. DAN is now accepting applications for the...
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Only One Week Left to Submit Your Photos to the 2012 Ocean Views Photo Contest
Winners Published in Alert Diver and Nature?s Best Photography Magazines
Only one week remains to enter your underwater images in the 2012 Ocean Views Photo Contest for your chance to be published in Alert Diver and Nature?s Best Photography magazines. If you?ve taken that magic shot of the aquatic realm, don?t wait any longer; the deadline for contest submissions is Nov. 30,...
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