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4. DIVE FATALITIES 4. DIVE FATALITIES DAN fatality surveillance is an external voluntary notification system with an internal collection process. Voluntary notification comes from divers who may have witnessed an accident, family members, dive businesses, investigative agencies, and government agencies. DAN also actively monitors newspapers and the internet for news about diving fatalities. Once notification is received, DAN researchers start an inquiry to collect available data. The inquiry is limited to recreational scuba fatalities involving US and Canadian citizens diving in US, Canada or abroad. Despite all investigative efforts, information on fatalities is often incomplete, especially in cases that occurred abroad. In this section, we present the fatality surveillance data as basic descriptive statistics that can be compared to the statistics in PDE and Injury sections and discussion of situations and hazards. A separate description of each accident appears in Appendix B. A forensic pathologist trained in dive medicine reviewed all cases. When the autopsy was inconclusive, the autopsy findings and surrounding circumstances sometimes made it possible to elucidate a likely sequence of events that resulted in death. 4.1 Fatality Statistics Table 4.1.1 shows the frequency of diving deaths by country of occurrence. Annual Diving Report: 2006 Edition 43
4. DIVE FATALITIES Table 4.1-1 Number of reported diving deaths by country. Country Decedents US & Canada All Residents United States 53 53 United Kingdom 18 Australia 12 1 Canada 11 11 Japan 8 2 Mexico 6 5 Philippines 5 1 New Zealand (Aotearoa) 4 South Africa 3 Thailand 3 1 Fiji 3 Netherlands Antilles 3 3 Guam 3 Ireland 3 1 Malaysia 2 2 Turkey 2 Spain 2 Bahamas 2 Brazil 1 Cayman Islands 1 1 China 1 Costa Rica 1 Dominican Republic 1 1 Ecuador 1 Egypt 1 1 El Salvador 1 1 Estonia 1 French Polynesia 1 1 Israel 1 Korea (North) 1 1 Malta 1 Myanmar 1 1 Palau 1 1 United Arab Emirates 1 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 1 Total 160 88 44 Annual Diving Report: 2006 Edition
Page 1 and 2: ANNUAL DIVING REPORT 2006 EDITION F
Page 3 and 4: Acknowledgments Data for the 2006 R
Page 5 and 6: International DAN Offices DAN Ameri
Page 7 and 8: 1. INTRODUCTION PDE is a prospectiv
Page 9 and 10: 1.2 Annual Diving Injury and Fatali
Page 11 and 12: 1. INTRODUCTION 48 years from 1989
Page 13 and 14: 2. PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION The Sca
Page 15 and 16: 2. PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION Table 2
Page 17 and 18: 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 2. PROJECT D
Page 19 and 20: 2.4 Dive Profiles 2. PROJECT DIVE E
Page 21 and 22: Percentage of Dives Percent of Dive
Page 23 and 24: Percentage of Dives 80 60 40 20 0 C
Page 25 and 26: 2. PROJECT DIVE EXPLORATION Ambiguo
Page 27 and 28: 2.5.2 Non-DCI Injury or Symptoms 2.
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Page 33 and 34: 3. DIVE INJURIES 3. DIVE INJURIES T
Page 35 and 36: 3. DIVE INJURIES treat fewer than 1
Page 37 and 38: 3. DIVE INJURIES The frequency of d
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Page 43: Percent of Cases 50 40 30 20 10 0 C
Page 47 and 48: Percent of Fatalities 45 40 35 30 2
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Page 53 and 54: 50 40 30 20 10 0 Surface pre-dive D
Page 55 and 56: Percent of Fatalities 30 20 10 70 6
Page 57 and 58: 4. DIVE FATALITIES Emergency ascent
Page 59 and 60: 4. DIVE FATALITIES The number of di
Page 61 and 62: 5. BREATH-HOLD DIVING Details on th
Page 63 and 64: Number of Cases of Cases 10 8 6 4 2
Page 65 and 66: APPENDIX A. DIVE INJURY CASE REPORT
Page 71 and 72: APPENDIX B. DIVE FATALITY CASE REPO
Page 93 and 94: APPENDIX C. BREATH-HOLD INCIDENT CA
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2004 Publications Refereed Articles
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