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DAN Offers Training for Public Safety Divers
Last Updated: 4/23/2009 11:09:41 AM

Diving First Aid for Professional Divers to be offered at select DUI events

For the past few years, Divers Alert Network (DAN) has joined Diving Unlimited International (DUI) on the road for several DUI DOG Rally and Demo Days events. DAN hits the road with DUI once again in 2009 with a special offering added for Public Safety Divers.

At DUI events that include a special day for Public Safety Divers, DAN will offer training in its Diving First Aid for Professional Divers program. The course will be offered the day before the DUI event starts.

Designed for professionals who dive as part of their job description, Diving First Aid for Professional Divers includes the three required elements of the DEMP course (Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries, AEDs for Scuba Diving and First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries), along with workplace CPR and first aid (based on guidelines provided by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration).

Participation in the Diving First Aid for Professional Divers course requires an affiliation with a public safety or scientific diving organization, commercial diving company or an aquarium. As proof of affiliation, participants will also be asked to provide a letter from the qualifying entity, outlining their diving role. The cost to complete the course at the DAN-DUI Public Safety Day events is $100, and registration is required.

“We’re looking forward to the chance to get together with Public Safety Divers,” says Eric Douglas, DAN Director of Training, “not only to conduct training that can be of value to them, but also to tell them about all the resources they have available through DAN. We know a lot of these guys are funding themselves, and so comprehensive courses like the Professional Divers course and learning about resources like the Oxygen Grant Program can be a great opportunity for them.”

DAN will be offering the Diving First Aid for Professional Divers course at the following DUI Demo Days events:

For information on Diving First Aid for Professional Divers, or to register for any of the DAN-DUI events, please visit www.diversalertnetwork.org or call (800) 446-2671 ext.555.

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