First Minutes

The first minutes of an emergency on the water, for the people who are actually there. First Minutes works with no signal. It opens on the phone numbers you need — local emergency services and the 24-hour diving hotline for where you are — then gives you the steps, then gives you the words to say when somebody answers. WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS — Emergency call block on every screen: local services and the diving hotline, one tap. — A CPR prompter with a metronome, sound and torch: 30:2 or hands-only. — First-aid cards for diving injuries and for the ordinary things that happen on boats: bleeding, burns, fractures, choking, heat, marine stings. — Every step shows the published source it came from, with the year. Steps we could not source say so. — A call script written to be read aloud to a dive doctor, in two versions: one for a diver, one for anyone else. What they tell you to do is…