Directory: Recreation: Outdoors: Scuba Diving: Safety and Medicine (12)
See Also:
- Health: Public Health and Safety: First Aid
- Recreation: Outdoors: Scuba Diving: Organizations: Training Agencies
The British Hyperbaric Association - Provides details of current clinical practice and avenues of research under exploration. Includes list of member chambers with emergency telephone numbers for divers.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.
Diving Diseases Research Centre Plymouth UK - Providing hyperbaric chamber oxygen treatment facilities and medical training for divers, technicians, nurses and doctors.
DAN Divers Alert Network - A nonprofit scuba diving and dive safety association providing expert medical advice for underwater injuries, emergency information, research, and products.
Dive Safety in Southeast Asia - A list of recompression chambers (hyperbaric chambers) in southeast Asia including Borneo and Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore.
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.
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.
Badalveda - Provides health service for divers, including recompression facilities and emergency services. Find mission statement, links, and article on diving hazards. Located in Koh Tao, Thailand.
Scuba-Training.net - Support service provider using web-based learning to teach new divers the classroom-based material required for SCUBA.
Medidive - Supplier of equipment for asthma sufferers. Includes details of products, newsletter and contact information. Located in Brisbane, Australia.
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