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The ADCI Supervisor Exam has been revised to reflect the new ADCI Consensus Standards for Commercial Diving and Underwater Operations (ed. 6.1).

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The Maritime Executive By Wendy Laursen

Captain Scott Powell, president of the Arctic Salvage Research Foundation, is developing the program for evaluating the equipment and procedures needed for salvage operations in the Arctic including the potential for saturation diving.

Captain Powell managed the response programs involving saturation divers when hurricanes Ivan, Rita and Katrina downed oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. “We set up five vessels for salvage operations with saturation diving systems that allowed us to keep dive teams at working at depth pressures while they remove debris and gained access to the downed wells to kill them. Saturation diving enabled the work to continue around the clock, and it is safer than having divers continually returning to the surface when long durations at depth are required. As the divers only decompress every month or so, you are reducing the risk of them getting decompression sickness.”

Posted by Michelle Howard August 25, 2014

International classification society Bureau Veritas has issued a new Rule Note covering the Classification of Diving Support Units. The Rule Note NR609 sets out requirements for vessels used for manned diving operations whether they are fitted with an air system for shallow diving or a complex saturation system for deep diving.

Industry’s first standard for certifying subsea equipment and components to drive efficiency

Posted by Eric Haun August 25, 2014

The subsea industry is challenged by the high cost levels, complexity and low predictability of quality control requirements throughout the supply chain. DNV GL aims to help address these issues through the launch of a new ‘Standard for certification of subsea equipment and components’. The goal of the certification scheme is to help increase quality control and efficiency, in addition to facilitating projects being delivered as scheduled by shortening lead times.

We moved to this news, today Spain and worldwide Professional diving this Mourning, unions and companies responsible conduct a relentless struggle to end these absurd deaths. In many cases the diver's own negligence and partly by companies run by people from outside the profession who show no respect for the safety of Professionals: