Course Description

The theory of the DAN Recreational Diver Medic course will be Blended learning which is an online training, at the end of which, you will be able to register for the practical section of the course that will take Two days 


The DAN Recreational Diver Medical Technician course provides recreational, technical, and commercial divers with advanced emergency response skills for diving accidents and injuries.

Through blended online learning and intensive hands-on practice for two days, students gain knowledge and confidence to effectively assess patients, provide lifesaving interventions, and assist transport to definitive care.

Key topics covered include:

  • Patient assessment protocols and monitoring vital signs
  • Administering emergency oxygen, airway management, CPR, AED use
  • Treating environmental and pressure- related injuries like DCS
  • Managing wounds, bleeding, musculoskeletal trauma
  • Responding to poisonings, allergic reactions, seizures
  • Safety protocols for remote diving operations
  • Scene management and evacuation considerations

Upon completing the course, divers are certified as DAN Recreational Diver Medical Technicians, authorised to provide critical, often life-saving medical interventions in diving emergencies.

With expertise developed through this specialised training program, divers can help ensure the best outcomes when accidents happen and emergency support is needed. The lifesaving skills gained allow divers to provide a new level of protection for themselves and their teams.


If you are unable to do the practical face to face section (which we highly recommend) there is an option to do an online 3D simulation practical used by emergency services to update their skills.

Email - [email protected]



Who can take this course 

Here are the typical qualifications and prerequisites to take the DAN Recreational Diver Medical Technician course:

  • Be at least 18 years old.
  • Have certification as a recreational, technical, or professional diver. Any major dive training agency certification will qualify.
  • Be in good health and physical condition. Students need the ability to perform CPR and other interventions.
  • Hold current CPR/AED certification for the level of Professional Rescuer or higher.
  • Have prior first aid training, such as Emergency First Response or equivalent.
  • Be actively involved in recreational, technical, commercial, or public safety diving operations. The course is designed for active divers.
  • Commit to completing online learning modules prior to the hands-on portion.
  • Be willing to follow all course safety protocols and directions during intensive scenario practice sessions.
  • Pay required tuition fees for certification upon successful completion.

The DAN course teaches skills well beyond basic CPR or first aid. Interested students should be seasoned divers looking to expand their emergency response capabilities. With diligent study and practice, divers can gain lifesaving new skills to help respond to underwater medical emergencies.





Certification
DAN Europe – DAN Recreational Diver Medical Technician – valid for two years


Course Director and Instructor

Chantelle Newman, AEA , BSc, EMT-A, DMT,Cert Ed

Chantelle Newman -  Born in Africa 1972, joined South African EMS at age of 19 under Civil Defence then later took on a full time position working on the road as first line response and worked in a very busy control room, Trauma specialist, attended several mass shootings, and bombings in South Africa. Relocated in London in 1998.  Became a medical instructor teaching Emergency Medical Technician, First Response, Health and Safety and First Response Emergency care. 2010 started the Facebook group called The Diver Medic which has become very popular with Diving Medicine and Dive safety posts.  In 2011 qualified as a PADI Divemaster and then a Diver Medic. Later in the year designed a Diver Medical Technician course for DAN Europe and became an IMCA DMT accredited Training facility in London.  Got asked to set up several IMCA DMT Training facilities around the world.  In 2016 got inducted into the Woman Divers Hall of Fame and in August the same year was featured under Heroes of Diving in the Scuba Diving Magazine in the USA.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

  • 2

    Module 1

    • Role of the DMT

    • Personal Hygiene and Infection Control
  • 3

    Module 2

    • Scene Safety

    • Primary and Secondary Survey

    • Opening an airway - Clinical skills - video

    • Assessing Basic Vital Signs

    • Taking a good patient history - Video

    • Clinical Skills Pulses assessment

    • Clinical Skills Respiratory rate assessment

    • Clinical Skills Body Temperature Assessment - Video

    • Clinical Skills Obtaining blood pressure assessment

    • Clinical Skills Pulse oximetry - Video

    • Basic Life Support

    • Basic Life Support - ERC Guidelines 2021

    • European-Resuscitation-Council-Guidelines-2021-Basic Life Support

    • AED

    • Optimizing outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with innovative approaches to public-access defibrillation-

    • Electrocardiography (ECG EKG) - basics Video

    • Sudden Cardiac Arrest and rescue - Filmed in the UK by BBC

    • European-Resuscitation-Council-Guidelines-2021-Advanced Life Support

    • Advanced Life Support - ERC Guidelines 2021

    • Epidemiology - ERC Guidelines 2021

    • Oxygen Administration

    • Module 2 Knowledge Review
  • 4

    Module 3

    • The Respiratory System Video

    • Respiratory System

    • Lung sounds - Video

    • Respiratory Problems

    • Actual Live Anaphylactic Attack & Use Of EPI Pen - video

    • Asthma Video

    • Asthma

    • Emphysema (COPD) video

    • Chronic Bronchitis Video

    • Circulatory System Video

    • Normal heart sounds - video

    • Cardiovascular System and Heart Conditions

    • Heart Attack Video

    • Lung Injuries

    • Pneumothorax explained - Video

    • ARS® For Needle Decompression - Video

    • Module 3 Knowledge Review
  • 5

    Module 4

    • Bleeding and wounds

    • CAT Tourniquet one handed arm application - Video

    • Celox Rapid training - Video

    • Celox Z-Fold Hemostatic Gauze - Video

    • SAM XT - Video

    • Arteries and Veins video

    • Shock

    • What is Shock? video

    • Obstructive Shock Video

    • Burns and Electric shock

    • Burns Video

    • Lightning Strike Injury - Video

    • Burns Treatment with Celox SILVA PRO video

    • Musculo- Skeletal System and Injuries

    • Part 1 Fitness Issues for Divers With Musculoskeletal Problems

    • Part 2 Fitness Issues for Divers With Musculoskeletal Problems

    • Immobilization

    • Anaphylactic shock video

    • Cardiogenic shock video

    • CAT Tourniquet self aid lower extremity application - Video

    • Module 4 Knowledge Review
  • 6

    Module 5

    • Nervous System

    • Structure of the nervous system video

    • Functions of the nervous system video

    • Neurogenic shock

    • Stroke, Head Injures and Seizures

    • Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) video

    • Stroke Video

    • Epilepsy and Diving

    • Epilepsy video

    • Module 5 Knowledge Review
  • 7

    Module 6

    • Abdominal Emergencies

    • Diabetes

    • Diabetes and Recreational Diving Guidelines UHMS

    • Blood Glucose Response in Insulin

    • Module 6 Knowledge Review

    • Quiz 2
  • 8

    Module 7

    • Environmental Emergencies

    • Motion Sickness

    • Tropical and Travel Illnesses

    • Dealing with Dengue

    • DAN Discusses Malaria and Antimalarial Drugs

    • Marine Life Injuries

    • Moray Injury - Video

    • Marine Life Trauma

    • I've Been Stung- What Should I Do? UPDATED 2004

    • Spines

    • Necrotizing Fasciitis

    • Quiz 3

    • Pre Hospital Drowning Conference - 7 Videos
  • 9

    Module 8

    • Diving Physics

    • Boyles Law - Video

    • Charles Law - Video

    • Henry's Law - Video

    • ENT and Barotrauma

    • How does the ear work? - video

    • Hearing loss - video

    • Otoscope Use - Video

    • Barotrauma - Video

    • High-Pressure Ophthalmology

    • Can You Prevent Otitis Externa

    • Ears and Sinuses Barotrauma for the Dive Professional - Video

    • Gas Poisoning and Contaminants

    • OXTOX- If You Dive Nitrox You Should Know About OXTOX

    • CNS Oxygen Toxicity - Richard Vann PhD - Video

    • Carbon Monoxide The Silent Killer - Podcast

    • The effects of Hypoxia at High Altitude - video

    • Psychological Issues in Diving

    • Psychological Issues in Diving II

    • Psychological Issues in Diving III

    • DCI/DCS

    • Patent Foramen Ovale part 1

    • Patent Foramen Ovale part 2

    • Neurological Assessment

    • Keeping It Clean - EARS

    • Quiz 4
  • 10

    Remote Diving

    • In-Water Recompression (IWR)

    • Pre-hospital management of DCI

    • DHMJ- In water Recompression

    • Remote Management of DCS Video
  • 11

    Woman and Diving

    • OB & Diving

    • The Risks of Pregnancy and Diving

    • DAN Explores Fitness and Diving Issues for Women
  • 12

    Medication and Diving

    • Clinical Pharmacology

    • Pseudoephedrine

    • Cardiovascular Medications and Diving

    • DAN Takes a Look at Over the counter Medications

    • Medications for Depression and Fitness to Dive
  • 13

    Video Library

    • Blood pressure - Video

    • ASSESSING SUITABILITY FOR DIVING for Medical Professionals - Video

    • Children and Diving - Video

    • Dive Accident Management - Video

    • Dive Accident Response First Response for the Injured Diver - Video

    • Diver Fatalities How Good Divers Get into Bad Trouble (Dan Orr, M.S.) - Video

    • Diving and Hyperbaric Physiology - what have we learned - Video

    • Diver Recovers Despite Delayed Treatment - Video

    • Evidence-Based Decompression - Video

    • Fitness to Dive - Video

    • Alcohol and Diving - Video

    • Blood Thinners & Diving - Video

    • Breathing Nitrogen Uptake - Video

    • Children and Nitrox Diving - Video

    • Extreme Exercise and Diving - Video

    • Gas Toxicities - Video

    • Medical Evaluation to Dive - Video

    • Medications and Diving - Video

    • Practicing Your Emergency Plan - Video

    • Migraine & Diving - Video

    • The Bends - Diagnosis & Treatment - Video

    • Toothache and Diving - Video

    • Vertigo and Diving - Video

    • Sinus Surgery - Video

    • Safety Planning - Video

    • Children and Diving with Dr David Charash - Webinar
  • 14

    Reference documents

    • Diving Medicine in Clinical Practice

    • Ethical Issues in Prehospital emergency Medicine

    • Harrison's Manual 16th Ed

    • Nasopharyngeal airway paper

    • physiological-responses-to-high-pressure-during-immersion

    • Anxiety

    • Cardiovascular Fitness and Diving

    • Cardiovascular Fitness and Diving

    • CNS Considerations in Scuba Diving

    • Common Ear Injuries While Diving

    • Decompression Illness

    • Diving & The Body System

    • Gastrointestinal Issues

    • Guidelines for Recreational Diving with Diabetes

    • Headaches and Diving

    • In-Water Recompression

    • Juggling Physical Exercise and Diving

    • Review of a DAN Study of Plasma Glucose Responses in Recreational Divers