Does Your Favorite Dive Boat Have Oxygen on Board?

Have you asked if your favorite dive boat has oxygen on board? Does your favorite dive boat have enough oxygen on board to get a diving casualty back to shore-side EMTs before the oxygen supply is exhausted?

Divers Alert Network (DAN) sells oxygen kits that contain from 20 to 105 minutes of O2 at a delivery rate of 12 liters/min.

This delivery rate is about 3 times the O2 delivery rate used for patients receiving supplemental oxygen for acute respiratory illnesses.

Both DAN and PADI offer a course entitled Emergency Oxygen Provider (or something very similar) that helps you recognize scuba diving illnesses or conditions that are treatable with emergency oxygen. Has anyone aboard your favorite dive boat received this training?

All these questions are worth asking as you next board your vessel of choice.

Breathe Easy My Friends!