Emergency action plan for a dive centre

Page 1 — the plan

Dive centre name

Country Sets the two checked numbers below. A scanning phone leads with the numbers you print here, and keeps this country’s checked numbers one tap behind them.

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Ambulance Prefilled from the country above. Change it if your centre uses a different number — the sheet will say the number is yours, not ours.

Dive doctor — the 24 h line Prefilled with the hotline DAN publishes for that country.

Your own emergency number The number the hotline rings back on. Whoever answers it must know this plan.

Nearest hospital

Have you phoned the hospital yourself?

No — or not yet Yes, I phoned them myself

Recompression chamber Leave this empty unless you have phoned it yourself and someone answered.

Have you phoned the chamber yourself?

No — or not yet Yes, I phoned them myself

Where you are

DAN asks for where you actually are, not the dive site's name — the operator needs somewhere to send an ambulance. Both print on page 1.

Site or address, as you would say it aloud Town or city Coordinates to read out Whatever form your boat's plotter gives. Read it slowly, twice.

Who does what

The one thing DAN names as saving minutes: somebody calls while somebody else gives care, and nobody has to decide who in the moment. Roles by job, not by name — a name is wrong the day that person is off.

Who makes the call Who stays with the casualty Who meets the ambulance or the boat

Oxygen on site What there is, where it is kept, and how long it runs.

Getting off the water, leg by leg One leg per line. They print numbered, in your words and your order.

Page 2 — when the first answer is not available

All optional. NOAA's diving plan carries a second choice for every facility, because at two in the morning the first chamber can be full, shut, or not answering. These print on page 2.

Second chamber Second hospital Boat that can come out Air evacuation Radio channel to call for help Defibrillator, if there is one Who keeps this plan current Date you last checked the numbers

Optional

Keep this plan online

Nothing here is a login. Verify an email address once and this plan gets a permanent address — coral-anchor-lantern-marble — printed on both pages. Open it on any computer to change a number, and the address stays the same: the laminated sheet on the wall goes on saying what it said.

This does send your plan to our server, which is how it comes back on another computer. Saving a change needs a six-digit code emailed to the address above, every save emails you the plan and its address so you cannot lose it, and you can delete the whole thing from here. What we hold.

Your email

On any computer

Open a plan that is already online

Type the address printed on its sheet. Anyone with the address can read a plan — it is on the paper, and the square beside it carries the same numbers — but only the email it is registered to can save a change to it.

The plan’s address

Optional

Move a plan without the server

If you would rather keep this plan off our server entirely, take it with you as a file instead: every line, page two and the address included. Nothing below leaves this browser.

Or bring one in — a copied plan, or a plan link from a scanned square

Reprint the sheet when it is more than 180 days old — a scanning phone warns the diver after that, and so it should. Phone the hospital and the chamber yourself before you write them down: a plausible wrong number at two in the morning is worse than a blank line.