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Dear fellow DASC members,
The following is a report from your Safety Officer. I recently attended the DAN "diver days" -- a one day (all day) conference on diving safety. The following is a summary of what I learned. The information is not necessarily endorsed by the DASC. During Diver Days, the following topics were discussed:
Overview of DAN and Diver Safety.
What is DAN? DAN stands for Divers Alert Network, and is a not-for-profit organization. DAN exists to provide expert medical information and advice for the benefit of the diving public. These services include emergency medical advice and assistance for underwater diving injuries.
Diving IS safe. Of the total amount of divers in the Unites States (2 million) only .094% are injured per year (yes that's right, 9 one-hundredths of one percent!). Compare this to other sports such as golf (.158%), fishing (.168%), and bicycling (.788%).
There are COMMON ELEMENTS to diving injuries. Generally, there are several common contributors to diving injuries:
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ler housing and the high speed of the water flow had made it free flow, then it managed to find a hole in the housing, momentarily stopping the propeller. These things really don't like this sort of treatment, and the unit stopped completely. Looking around I realized I was still thirty feet from the ascent line, and for a moment I wondered how I could possibly get all the way over there, I
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mean, my Torpedo was broken… Then I laughed at myself for how spoiled I had become, swam over, clipped my spent Torpedo on the line and performed a traditional ascent. Fifty-five minutes, just under two miles of reef - not bad for the first dive of the day! Later it turned out that the battery of the Torpedo had a loose connection, and the jarring of stopping the propeller had knocked it loose - no harm - no foul.
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