First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries
Serious hazardous marine life injuries are rare, but most divers experience minor discomfort from unintentional encounters with fire coral, jellyfish and other marine creatures. This course teaches divers to minimize these injuries and reduce diver discomfort and pain.
The First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries course is designed to provide knowledge to the general diving public regarding specific types of marine creature injuries and the general first aid treatment for those injuries. In addition, this course introduces students to the identification of potentially hazardous marine life as well as how to avoid hazardous marine life injuries.
This final part of the series provides information regarding gas toxicities, drowning, ear barotrauma and use of an otoscope. Part 3 builds on the foundations…
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Learn the knowledge and skills from several courses and combine these into one single approach to dive emergency management. It is a rare event when…
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The remote nature of dive accidents, whether a few hours from shore or days from civilization, requires more advanced levels of care than are offered…
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Learn how to conduct a neurological assessment on a potentially injured diver in this course. The information gained in this assessment can help convince a…
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As a recreational diver, you can receive training to provide vital first aid that can make a difference to a scuba diver with decompression illness.…
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This advanced-level program is designed to train existing DAN Oxygen Providers to use the MTV-100 or a Bag Valve Mask while providing care for a…
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More than 10 percent of all dive fatalities are actually caused by cardiovascular disease, according to DAN dive accident and fatality statistics. This course teaches…
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Serious hazardous marine life injuries are rare, but most divers experience minor discomfort from unintentional encounters with fire coral, jellyfish and other marine creatures. This…
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If you want to know more than just the basic first aid techniques, Dive Medicine for Divers is your next step. This modular program includes…
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This program is intended for divers who are required to have first aid, CPR and oxygen first aid training prior to diving as part of…
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This program provides information regarding topics such as decompression illness, barotraumas and equipment-related safety issues and includes skill development on taking a blood pressure and…
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