Nekton Diving Cruises was the first live-aboard dive boat to participate as a Field Data Collection Site for the Divers Alert Network (DAN) Project Dive Safety study.

Nekton Diving Cruises will provide you with free use of a downloadable dive computer for participating in the Project Dive Safety study during your week of diving if you volunteer*.

About DAN's Project Dive Safety
If your like an average responsible diver, you follow the dive tables (well, your computer does). You make deeper dives first, stay less than 130 feet (40 meters). You make safety stops. You don't hold your breath underwater. You make slow, controlled ascents. But did you realize that many of the generally accepted guidelines for safe diving are largely based on data from carefully controlled naval experiments using ultra-fit Navy divers in top physical condition? How many of us "normal" recreational divers can honestly say that we are "ultra-fit"?

Well DAN has wondered about the same question and has launched an extensive research project to substantiate these safety limits with actual data provided by normal recreational scuba divers such as you and me. The DAN scientists are interested in finding out just where the "average" recreational diver's profile falls within the accepted guidelines for safe diving. The goal of Project Dive Safety is to collect lots of dive profiles.

In order to learn what an "average" recreational dive profile really is, volunteers like you are asked to donate your profile by using a Nekton provided dive computer that will record your dive profiles second by second. These reliable dive profiles are uploaded by your dive-masters and sent to DAN where they will be compiled by scientists to develop statistically sound profiles for normal recreational divers like you and me.

In order to achieve their goal, DAN is recruiting and training a network of dive boat operations, resorts, and live-aboards to become Field Data Collection Sites. Dive operations around the world are volunteering their time and resources for this worthwhile project and Nekton Diving Cruises is proud to not only be the first live-aboard to participate, but over the years has collected the most dive profiles. You too can be proud of your contribution to this important study when you participate in the project. Your contribution will help the sport as a whole and help you develop a better understanding of physiology of scuba diving and how it relates to you.

Click here to become a member of DAN.

( * space is limited, volunteers are selected onboard the ship at the beginning of the cruise week. Selection is by lottery if the number of volunteers exceeds the number of spaces. The Nekton provided dive computer may not be used as a primary computer or to plan dives, it is provided solely to capture data for the DAN study)