The Down Under Dive Club (DUDC) is located in Melbourne on the sunny east central coast of Florida. Formed in 1984 by a group of enthusiastic divers, DUDC currently has about 100 members. Our mission is to promote safe, organized dive events, provide a social setting comfortable to everyone, and encourage environmental responsibility among the diving community. Our past dives covered the Atlantic ocean, from Georgia to Bonaire. We organize all types of dives: drift dives, wreck dives, shore dives, live-aboards, spring dives, and even shark dives! Our members include a diverse group of divers. There are men, women and kids, ages from 11 to 65+ with all certification levels from new Open Water divers to Instructors.
Meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 7:00 PM at the Indian River Lagoon House, Located just south of University Blvd. on US1 in Melbourne. Door prizes are awarded each month and we book a fascinating assortment of guest speakers. We invite everyone interested in SCUBA diving to stop by for some stimulating conversation, meet our group, and have some fun!
DAN Release 2006 Report on Dive-Related Illness, Fatalities
Saturday, February 17 2007
The 2006 Report on Decompression Illness, Diving Fatalities and Project Dive Exploration is ready for the scuba diving community to review. Compiled and published annually by DAN research,
the report presents information on Project Dive Exploration (PDE),
scuba diving injuries and dive fatalities, as well as breath-hold
diving incidents based on data collected during 2004. DAN has added new
material this year that describes breath-hold incidents and annual injuryand fatality rates for this activity.
Rates of DCS and Death
According to the PDE data collected between 1998 and 2004, the
decompression sickness (DCS) incidence rate among warm-water dives
fluctuated from 0 to 5 cases per 10,000 dives. The annual fatality rate
for DAN Members between 1997 and 2004 varied between 11 and 18 deaths
per 100,000 members per year. Note that these rates are for limited
population samples (PDE dives per year for DCS and DAN Members per year for fatalities) and cannot
necessarily be extrapolated to the diving population as a whole.
Project Dive Exploration (PDE) Data
DAN collected data from 1,521 divers, 3,265 dive series and 23,912
dives through PDE in 2004. The total number of dives logged by PDE
during 1998 through 2004 is 105,135. PDE divers reported 95 percent of
their dives to be “uneventful,” or without any adverse incidents.
Welcome to our newly re-designed website! The new site brings lots of new benefits and opportunities for our current and prospective members.
Some of the benefits:
We strived to create a richer user experience through additional features, functionality, and presentation. The new site is now more focused on local happenings within our club and community. The new site can also be maintained by anyone who wants to be the webmaster. We have greatly reduced the complexity of administration. This allows more people to contribute to the site. The new site also allows for easier growth and changes when needed. This will allow us to be more flexible to the needs of the membership.
We are still in the birthing process for the site, so please be patient will be work out the kinks and finish adding features. One new feature that I am VERY excited about is the new Photo Gallery (not published yet). We are opening the Gallery up to ALL members so they can upload and share THEIR photos. Also, make sure you check out the Forums. That is a GREAT place to find dive buddies and/or list your diving interest.
As for the electronic newsletter distribution. Many of you may be receiving it for the first time with this issue. We have consolidated both of our membership databases along with the user list from the old site. For now, you do not have to be registered on the web site to receive the newsletter. But this will change in the near future. So please take a moment and please register for your FREE account.
If you run into any issues on the web site or have any suggestion, just let me know!
Michael Wheat
Florida man dies after scuba diving accident off Juno Beach
Sunday, December 17 2006
JUNO BEACH, Florida (5 Sep 2006) -- A Florida man died while scuba diving off Juno Beach with Jupiter Dive Center.
Barry Hauser, 48, was found unconscious floating at the surface near the Republic IV dive boat. Attempts to revive the victim with CPR aboard the dive boat failed. After the Republic IV returned to Seasport Marina, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue took Hauser to Jupiter Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Hauser was diving with his wife and about 20 other divers when the accident happened.
The 2006 Report on Decompression Illness, Diving Fatalities and Project Dive Exploration is ready for the scuba 
JUNO BEACH, Florida (5 Sep 2006) -- A Florida man died while scuba diving off Juno Beach with Jupiter Dive Center.