Posts with the category “alert-diver-southern-africa”
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Clean Our Oceans
November 29th, 2024
Empowering our diving community to preserve and protect our coastline by providing the knowledge, skills, and resources to keep our oceans healthy and marine life safe... Read More
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What to Look for in a Dive Boat
November 29th, 2024
You should ask to inspect the oxygen kit. All the components must be present and functioning. A missing hose or defective mask makes the kit almost useless. Also, check that the cylinder is full.... Read More
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Finding My Passion
November 29th, 2024
From admiring the frothing seas brimming with life to helping film this world-class natural spectacle, I could hardly believe my luck. I was incredibly fortunate when these well-known French photograp... Read More
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Adventure Auntie: Yvette Oosthuizen
November 29th, 2024
Witnessing the decline in the natural world only deepened her passion for documentary filmmaking. “It’s a different picture now than it was a hundred years ago. The greatest grief in my life has been ... Read More
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Debunking Freediving Myths
November 29th, 2024
Freedivers come in all ages, shapes, and sizes, and the ocean belongs to everyone. The human body has incredible capabilities, including the Mammalian Dive Reflex, a "superpower" you might not have di... Read More
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Cryptic Fish
November 29th, 2024
False Bay is home to over 200 species of fish. Many of them seem to find you on your dives. With others, you need to be in the right place at the right time.
Fish like the two-eyed blenny, Cape triple... Read More
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Diving Deep with DSLR
November 29th, 2024
Choosing the right underwater housing for your DSLR is a complex process that balances cost, functionality, and your specific photography needs. By carefully considering your options and prioritising ... Read More
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Immersion Pulmonary Oedema
November 29th, 2024
When we scuba dive or do other immersion-related activities, such as swimming or freediving, the hydrostatic pressure of the water pushes substantially more blood to the central part of our body, wher... Read More
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Swimmer's Ear
November 29th, 2024
All bodies of water are full of microorganisms, and any break in the skin provides a passageway for those microorganisms to enter the body and cause an infection. Diving in remote locations can be esp... Read More
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MEMBER PROFILE: RAY DALIO
November 29th, 2024
Dalio’s acquisition of the ship, a former oil field support vessel, was timely because the oil market had crashed, and the ship was only 5 years old. It had to be stripped and rebuilt at enormous expe... Read More
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Diving With A PFO
November 12th, 2024
To clear up any confusion divers may have about patent foramen ovale (PFO), I will share how I explain the condition to patients. The heart has four chambers: two on the top (right and left atria) and... Read More
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Underwater Navigation
November 12th, 2024
Successful navigation begins before a diver enters the water and depends first and foremost on one’s ability to master the basic fundamental skills of diving. No magic pill or piece of dive gear will ... Read More
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Understanding Dive Equipment Regulations
November 12th, 2024
Consumer protection regulations require dive equipment manufacturers to specify service intervals to prevent failure. If you do not follow these guidelines and an unfortunate accident affects you or s... Read More
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Science Saves Sharks
November 12th, 2024
The field of shark and ray conservation in South Africa has grown exponentially, with many different organisations, research groups, officials, and public stakeholders dedicated to protecting our spec... Read More
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Safety Angels
November 12th, 2024
Deep competition dives can be over four minutes long, amplifying the risk of both hypoxia and nitrogen narcosis for the diver. Timing of safety dives is critical: dive too soon, and you’re going to be... Read More
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Diving Anilao with Adam Sokolski
November 12th, 2024
Anilao's underwater ecosystem is teeming with life, especially small subjects like colourful nudibranchs, frogfishes, octopuses, crabs, shrimps and even rhinopias. It is truly a haven for underwater p... Read More
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DUC Hosts Durban’s First Pool Freedive Competition
July 1st, 2024
“Establishing this inaugural event in our region is no easy feat, but there is an increasing level of interest and backing from the community,” adds Van der Hoogen. “Competitors and spectators are bot... Read More
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Freediving Risk Assessment
May 21st, 2024
Serious consequences have been linked to freedives that lacked the basic one-up-one-down rule, bypassed the buddy system, and pushed limits without proper safety measures.... Read More
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Underwater Photographer: Hilmar Lückhoff
May 21st, 2024
My latest thrill was blackwater diving in Anilao, the nudibranch capital, which was challenging and intoxicating. I enjoy visualising the scenes again during editing, and the knowledge gained in ident... Read More
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Zanzibar Dive Spots
May 21st, 2024
Zanzibar offers many diving spots accessible to divers of all levels of experience. The best dive sites are in the north, around Nungwi, and in the northeast, near Mnemba Atoll, a protected area and t... Read More
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Southern African Sea slugs
May 21st, 2024
This approach to making a field guide makes its contents much more wide-ranging and considerably more accurate, particularly in terms of distribution, than a guide produced by the observations of only... Read More
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The BOSS Of Wreck Diving
May 21st, 2024
Although intrepid hikers often explore the visible wreckage by hiking the trails from Llandudno or Hout Bay, divers who wish to explore the wrecks underwater should and can only access it by boat.... Read More
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Disinfecting Dive Equipment
May 21st, 2024
We don’t have significant evidence of mass infections on dive boats, around dive sites, or in classrooms or retail shops, so it’s likely that the processes we followed played a major role in ensuring ... Read More
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Barry Skinstad: Award-winning Documentary Cinematographer and shark specialist
May 21st, 2024
One of the shots I got was of these big white sharks of about four, maybe 4.2 meters, swimming right over our heads. Being underwater and holding your breath while it comes overhead was mind-boggling.... Read More
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Crafting Underwater Perfection
May 21st, 2024
Get low, get close (and then closer) and look upwards while at the same time being really aware of where you are in relation to fragile reef fauna. There are some days that I see great subjects or pot... Read More
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DAN was there for Me..... Close encounters of the shark kind
March 23rd, 2024
During 2009 Mark Barker a DAN member that had a very close encounter with a shark in Mozambique. Mark enjoys spearfishing and planned a trip to Vilanculos in Mozambique with a group of experienced spe... Read More
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Octopus Intelligence
February 8th, 2024
The Social Intelligence hypothesis suggests that higher intelligence evolved to navigate social group dynamics. This hypothesis holds true for dolphins, chimps, and humans, but for the octopus, the mo... Read More
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Santa Claus Gets Bent
February 6th, 2024
The hospital was quiet after Christmas with many of the consultants, bar those working in emergency and tending to the wards, still being on their Christmas weekend leave. It was a lovely night to sta... Read More
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Travel Safer
February 6th, 2024
Amid the bustling season of year-end getaways, the anticipation of an overseas holiday sparks meticulous planning for travel arrangements. Amidst the excitement, it is crucial to deliberate on medical... Read More
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Delving into Learning from Unintended Outcomes
February 6th, 2024
The guide addresses a spectrum of diving professionals—from commercial and military divers to those in media and academia—acknowledging the diverse organisational context in which they operate. The go... Read More
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ESOT Calculations
February 6th, 2024
How much oxygen is too much oxygen, and how do we understand and ensure we’re not risking more harm (i.e., oxygen toxicity symptoms) than good with how we manage treatments? It should be something we ... Read More
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Team Awareness an Positioning
February 6th, 2024
The ability to face one another on ascents and descents, and to use the environment for the team's safety, enhances communication procedures and enables an appropriate chain of reactions should one te... Read More
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Diving Etiquette
February 6th, 2024
Divers want to have a good time, so if you can maintain a relaxed demeanour (despite your own fastidious habits or mild anxiety before diving), you will be doing everyone a favour. There are also ways... Read More
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In Search of Perfection
February 6th, 2024
On the North-East coast of Zanzibar, in Matemwe, you will find the friendly and professional Dive Point Zanzibar diving centre. This PADI 5 Star resort has one of the most exotic views of Mnemba Islan... Read More
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Monitoring Cardiac Health in Scuba Divers
September 27th, 2023
DAN Research’s incident analysis program has shown that approximately one-third of diving fatalities can be traced to a cardiac event, making cardiac-related issues the No. 1 cause of fatalities while... Read More
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RESEARCHER PROFILE: Petar Denoble: Solving practical issues for divers
September 27th, 2023
We need to learn more about what constitutes individual variability. Because nitrogen bubbles have a role in DCS, at least in describing the severity of decompression stress, I would like DAN’s New Bu... Read More
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Tara Panton's Cape Nudibranchs
September 17th, 2023
With the first 25 stickers freshly printed, I excitedly announced to the world that Cape Nudibranchs had been born. To my genuine surprise, the response was overwhelming - they sold like hotcakes! I s... Read More
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Weight loss for divers
September 17th, 2023
Scouting the various diving medicine websites, I was delighted to find a handful of articles that suggest that hyperoxia (high partial pressures of oxygen - ppO2) might, in fact, be beneficial for fat... Read More
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Predive Warm-Up
September 17th, 2023
Before you dive, take a moment to inventory your body. If you were sedentary on the ride out to the dive site your heart rate is probably near resting, so it is not circulating much oxygen to your mus... Read More
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Mismatched Scuba Valves to Cylinder Outlets
September 16th, 2023
While a valve with a M25 thread may initially appear to fit a ¾-inch NPSM cylinder neck, it will necessitate more force to tighten and likely not seal correctly, requiring significant over tightening ... Read More
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