Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Worldwide DAN Offices
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Section 1. Dive fatalities
  Peter Buzzacott, Brittany M. Trout, James L. Caruso, Craig Nelson, and Petar J. Denoble.
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Geographic and Seasonal Distribution of Fatalities
  • 1.3. Source of information
  • 1.4. Age and Health of Decedents
  • 1.5. Diving Certification and Experience
  • 1.6. Characteristics of Dives
  • 1.7. Analysis of Situations and Hazards
  • 1.8. Fatalities involving harvesting and spearfishing
  • 1.9. Freshwater diving fatalities
  • 1.10. Cave diving fatalities
  • 1.11. Rebreather Fatalities
  • 1.12. References
• Section 2. Dive Injuries
  • 2.1. DAN Medical Services Call Center (MSCC)
    Daniel A. Nord, James Chimiak, Stefanie D. Martina, Brittany M. Trout, Matias Nochetto, and Petar J. Denoble.
    • 2.1.1. DAN Medical Information Services
    • 2.1.2. DAN Emergency Services
    • 2.1.3. Where are Divers being Treated?
    • 2.1.4. DAN Travel Assist
    • 2.1.5. Injuries reported through MSCC
    • 2.1.6. References
  • 2.2. Dive Injuries - Emergency Department Admissions
    Editor: Peter Buzzacott.
• Section 3. Diving Incident Reporting System (DIRS)
  Peter Buzzacott.
  • Rebreathers
  • Equipment Failures
  • Remote Location Injuries
  • Out of Gas Reports
  • Encounters with Marine Life
  • Buoyancy Problems
  • Polluted Gas
  • Ear Injuries
  • Miscellaneous Reports
• Section 4. Breath-hold dive incidents
  Neal W. Pollock.
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Cases in 2010-2013
  • 4.3. Cause of Death or Injury and Contributing Factors
  • 4.4. Reducing Breath-Hold Risks
  • 4.5. Ongoing Research
  • 4.6. Conclusion
  • 4.7. References
• Appendix A. Breath-Hold Incident Case Reports
  Neal W. Pollock.
• Appendix B. Diving Related Fatalities In Australian Waters 2010
  John Lippmann, Christopher Lawrence, Andrew Fock, Thomas Wodak, Scott Jamieson, Richard Harris, and Douglas Walker.
• Appendix C. Asia-Pacific Diving Deaths 2010 (Excluding Australia)
  Scott Jamieson and John Lippmann.
• Appendix D. Japanese Divers
  Yasushi Kojima; Editor: Peter Buzzacott.
• Appendix E. DAN Classification of Hyperbaric Medical Facilities
  Matias Nochetto and Petar Denoble.
• Appendix F. Glossary
  Neal W. Pollock.