Scuba Diver

Why Doesn’t DAN Share Chamber Locations or Availability?

DAN frequently consults on the care, transportation and hyperbaric treatment of injured divers. However, DAN does not generally provide information about the location or availability of chambers.

This is because injured divers with suspected decompression illness (DCI) need to be evaluated at a hospital or emergency clinic first.

Divers have driven past health care facilities to get to a recompression chamber, believing a chamber was the solution for just about

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