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DIVERS ALERT NETWORK - SkillBridge Program

SkillBridgeis aDefense Department (DOD) programdesigned for transitioning service members. It providesemployment training, internships, and apprenticeship opportunitiesat over 3,000 public and private organizations across the country. The program aims to help service members gain civilian experience while still on active duty, ultimately leading to a higher probability of employment after leaving the military.

Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a global organization headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. Asthe leader in civilian dive safety research, DAN employs and collaborates with dive scienceexperts to conduct research regarding all aspects of dive safety.

Successful SkillBridge applicants will have the opportunity to learn, develop, and enhance professional skills that canlead directly to career advancements in the field of diving research and job placement withinDAN. The location of this SkillBridge placement is Durham, NC.
They will participate in activities that originated in the DANInternship Program. This program was created more than 20 years ago to give qualifiedcandidates valuable experience in dive safety research. Today - over 100 interns later - theprogram continues to help people develop the knowledge and skills they need to pursue careersin diving-related and scientific fields.

The DAN SkillBridge participant will work alongside a mentor at DAN Headquarters in Durham,North Carolina for 2-6 months. Participants will work 40 hours per week in person.

The broad goal of training a SkillBridge participant at DAN will be toexpand upon the applicant's existing diving experience and knowledge and apply it to divingresearch in physiology, population health, and accident investigation. This will includeunderstanding how to generally do good research, independent of diving, primarily focusing onhuman subject research (e.g. IRB protocols, data collection/storage, statistics). Then observeand participate in our ongoing research activities, with exposure to a range of projects, includingthe early idea stage, proposal writing, regulatory approval, data collection, data analysis andmanuscript writing/presentations. The goal for our SkillBridge team member is to find a good,long-term fit in our Research Department (preferred), another department in DAN, or in anotherdiving research-related field or organization.

The training will be tailored to the needs of the applicant and the department at the time of the SkillBridge placement.

A full list of potential courses and skill development opportunities can be found here:

DOD SkillBridge - Divers Alert Network

SkillBridge participants will:
Gain a deeper understanding of diving physiology, dive injury monitoring, and currentdiving research efforts worldwide
Learn to prepare, plan, conduct, and communicate scientific experiments and take responsibility for their own research project
Learn data acquisition and research techniques
Engage with divers while collecting data in the field, and communicate DAN Research
endeavors to the dive community at large

Prerequisites:
Service members with experience or expertise in diving, population health, or accidentinvestigation are particularly encouraged to apply. Ideal candidates must be organized, detail-oriented, demonstrate excellent communication skills, demonstrate an establishedcommitment to diving, and be able to clearly communicate how participation in this program willhelp them achieve their career goals. While diving is not required during the program, allactivities are diving-focused, and as such, certified scuba divers with some experience would bemost qualified. College education and experience in research is encouraged but not required forSkillBridge participation with Divers Alert Network.