Scuba safety
ADC:
Association of Diving Contractors - Establishes and encourages industry-wide
observance of uniform safety standards for commercial divers. A non-profit organization
dedicated to the art and science of safe commercial diving.
DAN Divers Alert Network - Scuba Diving and Dive
Safety Association - DAN - Divers Alert Network a nonprofit scuba diving and
dive safety association providing expert medical advise for underwater injuries, emergency
information, research and products.
Diving
Diseases Research Centre Plymouth UK - Providing hyperbaric chamber oxygen
treatment facilities and medical training for divers, technicians, nurses and doctors.
Diving Medicals - Dr. Kenneth Vickers
a BSAC Dive Leader and General Practitioner gives an overview of some aspects of fitness
to dive, contact details and some diving photographs.
Hyperbaric Medicine Unit - Decompression
Sickness - The unit's site provides information for SCUBA divers on
decompression sickness, including first aid actions and contact information in the event
of a diving emergency.
LEARN CPR - Information and training
resources for cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, including games, links, and a video
(Quicktime) demonstration of CPR.
Nociones basicas de buceo -
Website in spanish, relating to scuba diving injuries and treatments.
Panic underwater - Some
information from a study about panic among divers, and related issues, by Dr. William
Morgan, director of the Sport Psychology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and the principal author of the study.
Recompression chambers in southeast
Asia (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore) - A list of
recompression chambers (hyperbaric chambers) in southeast Asia (Borneo and Brunei,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore)
SCUBA Diving Safety Page - A
SCUBA diving emergency rescue plan and information about some diving safety equipment.
