New DAN/Omni Divers Web Pages:

• DAN's Instructor Trainer Courses
• DAN's Instructor Trainer Courses Qualifications
• DAN's Instructor Qualification Course
• DAN's Instructor Trainer Course Fees
• DAN's Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries
• DAN's Oxygen First Aid for Aquatic Emergencies
• DAN's Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries Course
• DAN's First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries
• DAN's Automatic External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving Injuries
• DAN's Basic Life Support for Dive Professionals
• DAN's Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen (REMO2)

• DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries Checklist
• DAN O2, DAN REM02 and Marine Life Schedules
• DAN O2, DAN REM02 and Marine Life Potential Class Locations
• DAN's Project Dive Exploration
• DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries (02)
• DAN Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen (REM02)
• DAN First Aid for Hazardous Marine Injuries

Divers Alert Network (DAN) - Project Dive Exploration, Get Involved!

GET INVOLVED IN DIVE SAFETY RESEARCH

Your new dive computer, the Cochran Commander Nitrox, can help to improve the safety and efficiency of recreational diving by allowing you to participate in PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION.

PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION was designed by the Divers Alert Network (DAN) and is supported by the manufacturer of your dive computer. Its purpose is to establish a unique database of dive profiles from real dives and to compile information on the behavior and health of recreational divers. The collected data will be a resource for diving safety research including the study of dive styles, decompression practices, and the effects of individual characteristics such as age, sex, weight, and medical history. The ultimate goal of PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION is to make your dives more efficient and pleasant.

PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION has multiple objectives:

Collecting real-time depth/time profiles for analysis;
Documenting the condition of the diver 48 hours after the end of the dive series;
Documenting any health changes in the diver, whether or not related to diving;
Investigating the relationship between diving and health effects by using statistical analysis;
Developing flexible, low-risk decompression procedures for multi-level/multi-day repetitive diving;
Studying the effects of flying after diving.

WHAT YOUR COMPUTER CAN DO

In addition to tracking time and depth and providing guidelines for the execution of your dives, your new dive computer precisely records your depth-time profile. These can be transferred to a personal computer and e-mailed to DAN for analysis in the PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION database.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

You provide additional information about yourself including:

Age, sex, height, weight, diving experience, and medical history
Dive equipment and environment
Technical problems, mishaps, and symptoms.

All data you provide are handled as Confidential Medical Information.

HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE

Visit the DAN Web Site http://www.diversalertnetwork.orgto get more information about PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION and other DAN research projects.
You can donate your dive profiles during DAN sponsored events and trips.
You can sign-up for a free Field Research Coordinator (FRC) course and learn how to collect data.
You can download an online FRC Course and Manual to learn data collection procedures.

WHY YOU SHOULD PARTICIPATE

Your dive computer is a powerful tool that lets you take part in a research study that will benefit divers all over the world. Beginning in January 2000, DAN will publish an Annual Diving Report that summarizes the PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION data collected to date. For those who learn to be FRCs, DAN will provide software tools to enable them to collect their own data and conduct their own research projects.

Enjoy your dives and deposit your dive data with DAN in the PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION database.

DAN Classes Offered by Omni Divers Underwater Services:

• DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries (02)
• DAN Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen (REM02)

Class Schedule, Locations and Checklist:

• DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries Checklist
• DAN O2 and DAN REM02 Schedules
• DAN O2 and DAN REM02 Potential Class Locations

DAN members receive exclusive dive and travel benefits:

• 24-hour dive emergency hotline and medical information line based at Duke University Medical Center
• Automatic $100,000 emergency medical evacuation
• Medical expense advances up to $5,000
• Eligibility for up to $125,000 dive accident insurance converage, plus a total of $35,000 additional coverage for AD&D, lost dive equipment, loss of airline ticket, and extra accommodations
• Subscription to award-winning Alert Diver magazine
• Eligibility for diving's only emergency ID - the DAN tag
• Membership in the world's largest association of divers, supporting vital research and services that benefit DAN members and all recreational divers

DAN's Project Dive Exploration:

• Divers Alert Network

• DAN's Project Dive Exploration

Omni Divers Underwater Services is a DAN Bronze Store Sponsor #327486 since January 1997

If you need more information,
please e-mail us at omnidive@omnidivers.com.

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