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MEDICAL SERVICES Stacking the Deck: Applying Lessons Learned to Dive Safety Basics Lionfish Stings Back to Basics: Understanding Decompression Illness Women’s Health and Diving Marine Envenomations: Jellyfish and Hydroid Stings Children and Diving: What Are the Real Concerns? Uncertainty After Diving: Case Reports and Recommendations
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MEMBERSHIP AND INSURANCE A Culture of Dive Safety Pneumonia in Germany More Than Just Bubbles: Are We Too Concerned About DCS? Timeline of an Emergency Call Touch and Go in Tonga Professional Liability: Not Just for Pros Divers Losing Access to Emergency Care DCS in Cozumel Reduce Your Liability Risk
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SAFETY SERVICES Survive Your Dive: A U.S. Coast Guard Perspective Choosing Safety Preventing Breathing-Gas Contamination Invisible Crystals Experience and Risk You’ll Be OK Freediving Safety What Drowning Really Looks Like Dive Boat Fire Safety The Social Psychology of Safe Diving When Things Go Wrong: Emergency Action Plans
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RESEARCH Matters of the Heart: Aging, Wellness and Fitness to Dive Delay to Recompression Timing Exercise and Diving PFO and Decompression Illness in Recreational Divers Checklists: Keys to Safer Diving? Immersion Pulmonary Edema
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