Nitrox workshop dings - Divers Alert Network

Rubicon Foundation Archive (http://rubicon-foundation.org)Lang (ed.): DAN Nitrox Workshop, Divers Alert Network, November 2000Figure 4 shows the dive platform used by PDE divers and diving fatalities. (Dive platforminformation was not available for injuries.) For PDE, half the air diving was from liveaboardsand half the nitrox diving was from charter boats. Shore dives were the most common startingpoint for both air and nitrox fatalities.ShoreLiveaboard^9,640 Air Dives• 1,308 Nitrox DivesCharterSmall Boat10 20 3040 50% of PDE DivesShoreCharterSmall boat° 819 Air Dives•9 Nitrox Dives10 20 30% of Fatalities40 50Figure 4. Dive platform.Table 5 shows the mean days of diving and Table 6 shows the mean number of dives for thethree populations. (For fatalities, information is available only for the day of the event.) Ingeneral, nitrox divers had longer trips but made fewer dives. For fatalities, the critical eventusually occurred on the first dive.Table 5. Mean days of diving.AirNitroxPDE3824Injuries22