Diving First Aid (DFA)
DAN® Diving First Aid (DFA)
This course is open to anyone, even non-divers.
Full course description can be found below course dates.
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Diving First Aid (DFA)
DFA is the most comprehensive first aid course in the dive industry. Divers and non-divers will gain an essential set of first aid and risk-mitigation skills.
DFA includes all the content from DAN Basic Life Support (BLS) including CPR and first aid skills, all the content of the Emergency Oxygen for Diving Injuries, plus neurological assessments and first aid for hazardous marine life injuries. In the neurological assessment portion of the DFA course, you will learn how to recognize neurological injuries by performing a neurological assessment and how to collect vital information useful to emergency medical services. In the hazardous marine life injuries portion, you will learn how to identify some of the most common marine life injuries as well as the first aid skills to treat them.
This course is open to anyone, even non-divers.
Training includes:
- eLearning Online
- Two Classroom Sessions (approximately 16 hours total; dependent on class size)
- Certification Certificate
The non-refundable deposit fee for this course is $25, plus the cost of eLearning if it has been activated.
Please call (989) 486-3627 if you have questions about this course.
This course is taught by instructor, Marc Ellis.
Marc has been an instructor since 1994 and has been teaching at Dive & Glide Scuba since 2022. In addition to training divers, he also heads up the organization of our dive club (Mid-Michigan Dive Adventures) meetings and events. Marc is bi-lingual (he speaks Spanish) and holds multiple diving instructor certifications as an SSI, PADI, and SDI instructor. To learn more about Marc and our other staff members, visit our Dive Team page.