In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you will hear from Dr. Nick Bird about the new diver medical screening questionnaire as well as Coronavirus’ possible effects on fitness to dive.   

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Welcome to the dive locker podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.

Hello dive pro’s welcome to another episode of the dive locker podcast during what is frankly the most significant health crisis in modern history.  First, thank you for hanging in there.  It is my hope that you can shed some of the emotional and intellectual burdens that you are dealing with and just for these 40 or so minutes, relax and simply focus on a conversation between two people.  Picture yourself with us and just soak in the information. 

Resources to Get Through These Crazy Times

People and companies are really stepping up to make this time a little more tolerable.  I want to highlight some resources for you.  Kudos to the dive training agencies that are sharing information to help their members and retailers.  Sage Dalton with SSI put on a great webinar for SSI pro’s, where he really showcased how nimble the SSI digital education platform is.  They were able to make immediate changes for their pro’s to help engage students and customers at this time. 

Shout out to Roger Joselyn with PADI for hosting a PADI webinar on how to adjust your training techniques – again highlighting customer contact and elearning options.  And PADI is putting on a webinar series on diving business as well as hosting virtual member forums. 

And DEMA is putting on a webinar on CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program with Tom Ingram. Another area of training resources comes from our industry legend Dan Orr who is offering his webinar called Does Diving Have a Retirement Age? 

Also, world champion freediver Stig Severinsen is making his famous Breathology book free as well as an accompanying online course.  This is great for relaxation and combating stress.  He even teaches that proper daily breathing techniques improve your immune system. 

Speaking of freediving there’s Immersion Freediving’s online courses that I discussed last week. 

And finally, I’m keeping my staff going with virtual in service training, one of the things we are doing is assigning one of the DAN online learning courses each week to our instructors and divemasters on staff, and we are paying them to take those courses, just as if it was on the clock in service training.  I’m sure Patty Seery and Bil Ziefle are happy to hear that.  But seriously everyone, there are so many resources out there for you to better yourself as a dive professional. 

Upcoming Episode on Fitness to Dive

So that’s it for Coronavirus items. Actually one more thing, I’m actually previewing fitness and exercise apps to recommend to you for an upcoming episode. I don’t know about you, but I’m not doing such a great job keeping fit these days. My gym is closed, I can’t do my workouts in the park anymore. So everything has to be at home or in my neighborhood. And, not eating like i used to, and yeah, I might be doing more happy hours now that the commute from my home office to my home bar is ten steps away. No 40 minute commute home! So I’m going to share the programs and apps that I have been trying in an upcoming episode so that when its time to dive again, we can all be in shape.

Interview with Dr. Nick Bird

On today’s episode you’re going to hear about the new diver medical screening form that is coming out. A team of diving physicians, headed up by our guest Dr Nick Bird, assembled two years ago to revise this document that was long overdue for revision. Dr Bird talks about the many changes that have taken place in this soon to be released revision and I even talk with Dr. Bird about the impact of the Coronavirus on future medical screenings. You’ll want to hear that. Dr. Nick Bird was the Chief Medical Officer and CEO of Divers Alert Network, he was also the Regional Medical Director at Duke University, and currently he is the President of the UHMS Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society.

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