Diving medicine
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Background
- Scuba Diving Emergencies
- Underwater diving with the use of a compressed air cylinder, a regulator, a buoyancy compensator, and additional gear that generally includes a wetsuit, fins, mask, dive watch, weights.
- Requires certification, generally through PADI or NAUI
- Divers Alert Network, DAN emergency hotline phone number (919) 684-9111
- Free Diving
- Underwater diving without supplemental oxygen, dating back thousands of years to early shellfish divers. Additional gear may include weights, fins, suit, dive watch.
