Course Offerings

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Courses are offered on an as needed basis and are oriented towards private and small groups. If you are interested in one of our courses, contact us at jblackwell@lonestarbls.com for more details.

Learn how to provide high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for adults, children, and infants, including the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED). This course is ideal for healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, and paramedics.

Learn the basic techniques of CPR, how to use an AED, and how to provide first aid for choking. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to be prepared to respond to an emergency, including parents, teachers, and fitness professionals.

Learn how to respond to common first aid emergencies, including bleeding, burns, and fractures. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to be prepared to respond to an emergency, including parents, teachers, and fitness professionals.

Learn how to provide CPR and first aid for infants and children, including the use of an AED. This course is ideal for parents, babysitters, and childcare providers.

Learn advanced techniques for managing cardiac emergencies, including cardiac arrest, stroke, and acute coronary syndromes. This course is ideal for healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, and paramedics.

Developed by dive medicine physicians and diving educators, DAN’s courses are easy to understand and designed to provide you with the skills and confidence you need to respond in emergencies. DAN first aid courses prepare people to manage injuries related to scuba diving as well as those that occur in other settings. All courses meet current ILCOR and AHA guidelines.  

When you become a DAN instructor you help build a better trained and skill-equipped diving community. You can develop a highly qualified dive staff, increase your business and show your customers you are committed to safety. Providing first aid training can help you generate off-season business and diversify your revenue stream. Reaching out to your community at large and teaching them first aid prepares the members of your community to act in an emergency, and it is a great way to introduce them to the world of scuba diving.

After meeting additional prerequisites, you may become a DAN Instructor Trainer. Advance your diving career and help other dive professionals advance theirs by conducting DAN Instructor Qualification Courses.

Administering emergency oxygen is the preferred first aid for scuba diving injuries, and early administration can drastically improve the outcome for an injured diver. The DAN Emergency Oxygen for Scuba Diving Injuries course teaches you how to administer life-saving oxygen first aid to divers who may be suffering from decompression illness (DCI). Additionally, this course will teach you how to recognize the signs and symptoms of decompression illness and respond to them accordingly. The emergency response skills taught in this course are not unique to scuba diving; they’re applicable to many other watersports and other activities.

Note: Current DAN BLS: CPR & FA, CPR: HCP provider or other nationally recognized full CPR training is prerequisite to this course.

This fundamental course prepares you to provide proper care for life-threatening illnesses or injuries until professional emergency medical care is available. The life-support skills taught in this course include one- and two-rescuer CPR for adults, children and infants. Use of automatic external defibrillators, bleeding management, assisting a choking victims and responding to a person in shock. The first aid skills taught include conducting secondary assessments, splinting and responding to medical emergencies.

This course is open to anyone, even non-divers. 

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.