Posted by DAN keeps working in smartes ways, that’s why DAN will be launching DAN Technical Diving Conference Tech Diving 2008, bringing the industry’s best and brightest technical diving minds. In January 2008, the technical diving community will come together for a ground-breaking and important meeting of the minds.
The two-day conference, sponsored by DAN and planned for Jan. 18-19, 2008, in Durham, N.C., features four half-day workshops on physiology, decompression, rebreathers and training issues. In January 2008, the technical diving community will come together for a ground-breaking and important meeting of the minds. The two-day conference, sponsored by DAN and planned for Jan. 18-19, 2008, in Durham, N.C., features four half-day workshops on physiology, decompression, rebreathers and training issues.
The Purpose
DAN’s Mission is to provide safety information based on research to sport divers. Technical divers, a specialized set of sport divers, are often seen as a new breed of explorers, pushing the proverbial envelope in diving: They penetrate shipwrecks, deep and shallow; they venture deep into underwater caves to explore and photograph what most people will never see firsthand; they go to tremendous depths to view aquatic life and mineral formations for scientific study. And they do it using specialized equipment and suiting that can affect their respiration, carbon dioxide retention, blood nitrogen levels and body heat.
Technical diving is growing in popularity, and though it is high-profile, it has its associated risks. It is crucial for technical divers to distinguish between real and imagined risks and to identify appropriate and safe alternatives in diving procedures.
The Challenge
DAN and the technical diving community will address these tasks in the 2008 Technical Diving Conference. Discussions will include the operational and medical aspects of technical diving; the forum will also address ways to improve effectiveness and safety, with these objectives:
• to establish communication between technical divers, dive physicians, and dive scientists;
• to provide objective information concerning what is known and — unknown — regarding technical diving; and
• to establish the need for data collection and quantitative analysis to answer unresolved questions.
Special Rates With Early Registration
You can get special rates for early registration. For more details on this and the rest of the conference, see http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/news/article.asp?newsid=873
Direct questions on topics to DAN Research; inquiries on accommodations go to Dan Continuing Medical Education. Call DAN at 1-800-446-2671 or +1-919-684-2948 or go to http://www.DiversAlertNetwork.org.
