Who uses DAN tags?

[j yaeger]

as a side bar...
i put the small dan stickers on all of my tanks so their tele#is always there
...and those are my tanks....

 

[promocop]

I have the ID mirror tags and ID tags on everything. Yea they may be a bit dorky but they are cool at the same time, not to mention a hugh safety factor. I like em

 

[Belmont]

I hear DandyDon coming...

 

[ScubaSteve]

 

[cruiser]

Label me a if you want then . I have the mirron tag that I keep on my BC. It is smal,, and can hurt nothing but might make the word of difference in an emergency (either for the mirror to signal or for the DAN info to get us in touch with them ASAP. THe other tags I do not use.

This is what I do too. DAN tags are savvy, not dorky.

 

[bhalah]

The DAN hotline number has been changed to 919 684 9111. Does that make the old DAN tags useless?

 

[bleeb]

The DAN hotline number has been changed to 919 684 9111. Does that make the old DAN tags useless?

I think DAN has said they'd keep the old number working for the foreseeable future (at least a few years) because it's so widely disseminated. My impression is that centralizing things under a single number is meant to make it easier to get through to the right department (medical emergencies, non-emergency medical, membership, etc.) at least at certain times of day.

 

[FritzCat66]

Tallking about two separate items here, the DAN Tag Plus, which has your personal and medical info on it, and the DAN Gear Tag, which is just a personalized name tag for your stuff.

Yeah, I use the DAN gear tags on a couple of my items so they don't get confused with someone else's stuff on the boat. All dive gear looks the same unless you personalize it somehow.

As for the DAN Tag Plus, I heartily recommend wearing one. Either that, or one of the MedicAlert-style bracelets or SOMETHING that has emergency contact info on it - not an ICE number on your cellphone that someone may or may not be able to find, not a card in your wallet up in the boat, not on the release form you fill out at the dive charter: no, you need those numbers to be something that would be ON YOU if some other dive boat pulls your unconscious ass out of the water!

There was a good thread about diver ID options a while back: Anyone wear ICE bracelets?

I say this because of personal experience, see SB Diver Littlejohn Rest In Peace. Don't let whether the ID tag is "dork" or stroke or uncool or whatever influence you: just get one, and wear it religiously when diving. You owe it to your family - John's family didn't get to see him alive again simply for lack of such a tag.

 

[mike_s]

The DAN hotline number has been changed to 919 684 9111. Does that make the old DAN tags useless?

why would the do a crazy thing like change it when so many people have the old phone number on their tags, cards, in their phones, etc?

hopefully the old number rolls to the new number.

 

[reefduffer]

The phone number change as related to the DAN tags was discussed here: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ba...rgency-number-your-cell-phone-member-not.html

See in particular posts #8, 10, and 14. Looks like a non-issue.