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Divers Alert Network recently awarded three Rescue Paks and one Rescue Pak Extended Care to Reef Check Foundation in Pacific Palisades, Calif. DAN made the award through its Oxygen Grant Program. The oxygen units were valued at a total $2,075.
Reef Check Foundation will use the units in its northern and southern California operations.
Cyndi Dawson, regional manager for Reef Check California, said the oxygen units will enhance safety operations of the organization and its trained diver volunteers. "Often RCC divers conduct surveys from shore-based sites that at times can be remote or from vessels that do not have emergency oxygen available,Ó Dawson said. ÒThe DAN oxygen units will ensure that RCC divers have access to safety equipment while conducting dives where they employ the RCC survey techniques.
"To ensure that the maximum number of divers are trained in the use on the DAN oxygen units Reef Check California will provide free training to our certified divers twice a year."
Reef Check headquarters is located in Pacific Palisades, where one of the oxygen units will be kept, and other units will be located at satellite offices in San Diego and Santa Cruz.
The Reef Check Foundation was established in 1996 to provide local communities around the world with the tools to scientifically monitor coral reef health. The Reef Check Foundation has three major programs:
- Reef Check California
- EcoAction and
- Coral Reef Management.
With teams in more than 80 countries and territories, Reef Check manages the world's largest coral reef monitoring network, and it is composed almost entirely of volunteers.
Through the Oxygen Grant Program, DAN provides emergency oxygen units to deserving public safety diving teams or organizations in the DAN America region. To receive the DAN Oxygen Units, those organizations must demonstrate a genuine need of oxygen in the carrying out their work.
In addition, consideration for the grant requires training in the use of the equipment through attendance in a DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries course.
For more about Reef Check, visit www.reefcheck.org.
For more about the DAN Oxygen Grant Program, click here.
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