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 Given the enthusiastic reaction to the technical diving conference DAN convened in January, DAN has placed a weblink of the conference on its website. DAN has also created a Technical Diving Conference DVD for viewing on a PC or Mac computer. It is available free from DAN.
Richard D. Vann, Ph.D., technical conference organizer and vice president of DAN Research, said diving safety is as relevant for technical divers as it is for any other recreational diver. “What is learned from extreme dives helps all divers because risks that are understood can be managed,” Vann said. “The information on the DAN website and tech DVD is designed to communicate what we know about technical diving.
“It is also designed to encourage the tech diving community to improve this knowledge by recording information from their dives and reporting it to DAN.”
Dan Orr, DAN president and CEO, said the weblink and the DVD are tremendous opportunities to share with the entire diving world the collective expertise of all the conference’s exceptional speakers. “It is our hope that this important information will help expand the body of knowledge in the technical diving community,” Orr said.
More than 165 divers, scientists and physicians attended the two-day conference in Durham, N.C.; participants came from across the United States and from Finland, the United Kingdom, Canada, American Samoa, Australia, New Zealand and Grand Cayman.
Simon Mitchell, M.D., one of four workshop chairmen and a fellow in anesthesia at the Auckland City Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, said the technical diving conference was the first such opportunity for technical divers to meet with experts in the field of dive medicine and dive physiology.
The weblink offers both PowerPoint and video (MP4) presentations of the conference proceedings. To download, visit www.DiversAlertNetwork.org.
To receive the free Technical Diving Conference DVD, contact DAN at 1-800-446-2671 ext. 295, +1-919-684-2948 ext. 295 or email ProMember@DiversAlertNetwork.org.
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