Incident Insights: Incident in the Philippines
By DAN Asia-Pacific’s John Lippman. The Diver: Experienced. The Location: Philippines. The Dives: Three days including diving that predominantly involved …
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Further Comments on Dive Fatalities: A Matter of Perspective?
Why the Fatalities – Training? Or just plain Attitude? Or a bit of both? By Keith Cardwell, PhD. Diving is an adventure. Adventure often brings risks. And …
Incident Insights: Case Report Kadavu, Fiji
By DAN Asia-Pacific’s John Lippmann and Scott Jamieson. Nigel is a healthy 47-year-old man who was diving with his wife in Kadavu, Fiji. He had completed a …
Police National Dive Squad Present Their Findings
By Dave Moran, Editor. Bruce Adams, Senior Sergeant Officer in Charge Police National Dive Squad has been on the road in recent months delivering presentations …
Lessons in Luck
By Richard Taylor. Let’s be honest, diving has had a bit of a bad rap lately. We can’t really complain – after all, the recent number of fatalities …
Incident Insights: My Diving Incident
By DAN Asia-Pacific’s John Lippmann. Location: East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Dives Prior to the first of two dives, the instructor gave a poor dive …
Incident Insights: Dive Operator Sentenced after Propeller Death
Reprinted courtesy of Maritime New Zealand Whangarei diving company The Dive Spot Limited has been fined $50,000 and co-director and skipper Mark Andrew Barnes …
Incident Insights: DAN Helped Me
By DAN Asia-Pacific’s John Lippman. Where Florida Keys The Diver A recreational diver for 15 years and a dive professional for three with 1500+ logged dives. …
Incident Insights: Oxygen Saves the Day
By DAN Asia-Pacific’s John Lippman. The Diver Experienced. The Location Philippines. The Dive A standard no decompression profile on a sandy slope, between …
Incident Insights: But I Was Within the Limits of My Diving Computer!
By DAN Asia-Pacific’s John Lippman. Most divers these days use dive computers and appear to be reasonably confident that by doing so they will avoid …