Diving Safety

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#F0F0F0" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#0077FF" alink="#66EE00"> <h1 align="center"><font size="4">Diving Safety</font></h1> <p><font size="6">B</font><font size="4">y now I'm sure that you're getting tired of seeing disclaimers, but here's one more anyway. These articles are expressions of my own personal opinions. They do not represent any official position of any diving organization, and are not intended as advice.</font></p> <p><font size="6">S</font><font size="4">tatistically, diving is one of the safest sporting activities around. This, of course, does not mean that there aren't potential dangers inherent in diving. This great safety record is primarily due to advances in training and equipment over the last few decades. There are still issues in diving safety that are open to discussion, though. As new technologies and techniques develop, how to safely incorporate them into recreational diving will continue to be an issue of concern for all of us. Also, as with almost every other area of knowledge, the more we learn, the more we realize we don't know.</font></p> <p><font size="6">C</font><font size="4">ollected here are a series of articles on the subject of diving safety. This is a series to which I hope to continue to add. They don't follow any particular thread from one to the next. As a subject strikes me, I write about it. If you have any questions or suggestions for topics, feel free to let me know at </font><a href="mailto:garyvilla@earthlink.net"><font size="4">garyvilla@earthlink.net</font></a><font size="4">.</font></p> <ul> <li><a href="chamb.html"><font size="4">Ocean Rescue</font></a><font size="4"> is the organization that runs the recompression facilities here on the Monterey Peninsula. I think it's appropriate to start this series with an article about this great resource. </font></li> <li><a href="bent.html"><font size="4">The Bends</font></a><font size="4">, the specter against which all divers must be on guard. There are hundreds of sources telling you what the symptoms of the condition are, but not many that give you guidelines for ruling it out. </font></li> <li><a href="comp1.html"><font size="4">Dive Computers</font></a><font size="4"> are one of the greatest technologies to come into recreational diving. Having said that, it's important to understand the limits of these new tools. This is the first of two articles responding to what I feel is some bad advice about dive computers that unfortunately made it into the mainstream diving media. </font></li> </ul> <hr width="80%"> <div align="center"><center><table border="1"> <tr> <th colspan="2"><a href="index.html" target="_parent"><font size="4">Return to Diving Page</font></a></th> </tr> </table> </center></div><hr width="80%"> <p align="center"><a href="copy.html" target="_parent"><font size="4">© Gary Villa, 1995-All Rights Reserved</font></a><font size="4"> </font></p> </body>