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Mind Boggling Apathy!
By tim, in Front Page Articles, October 22, 2014
4 comments 2,307 views

Association News
By Association, in Front Page Articles, October 8, 2014
3 comments 1,315 views
IMCA have set up a "You Tube" account so that all of their safety videos applicable to the offshore industry are now available to all besides just members, similar to access to the majority of IMCA's guidance documents.
IMCAs DVDs on Youtube link - http://www.youtube.com/user/IMCAint

IMCA Safety DVDs on Youtube
By derek, in Front Page Articles, September 24, 2014
2 comments 1,708 views

CDC Diver Fatality Investagation Report
By JCROAT Subject Matter Expert, in Front Page Articles, September 21, 2014
3 comments 1,949 views
OSHA announces new requirements for reporting severe injuries and updates list of industries exempt from record-keeping requirements
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a final rule requiring employers to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. The rule, which also updates the list of employers partially exempt from OSHA record-keeping requirements, will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, for workplaces under federal OSHA jurisdiction.

OSHA announces new requirements for reporting severe injuries and updates list of industries exempt from record-keeping requirements
By Carlos Zarate, in Front Page Articles, September 15, 2014
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The basic requirements for a diver qualifying to the OGP Oxy-arc underwater cutting Recommended Practice come straight out of The Devon Standard and the Oceans Technology OXY ARC Burning Course. Those are no problem, the problem is: As currently published it over reaches: #1 anyone that wants to qualify burners has to use the OGP Diving Recommended Practice Report No. 411. Fine if you’re a major diving company working the oil patch for one of the OGP Oil Companies. Not good at all for a small Dive Company working the harbors, rivers and lakes. That's still where most of the diving is done.

Why No Training To The OGP Burning Standard?
By JCROAT Subject Matter Expert, in Front Page Articles, September 13, 2014
1 comment 2,512 views
The ADCI Supervisor Exam has been revised to reflect the new ADCI Consensus Standards for Commercial Diving and Underwater Operations (ed. 6.1).

Revisions to ADCI Supervisor Exam
By Carlos Zarate, in Front Page Articles, September 5, 2014
0 comments 1,445 views
From
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.”

Action Needed on Arctic Saturation Diving
By Carlos Zarate, in Front Page Articles, August 31, 2014
1 comment 1,514 views
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:

Mueren tres buzos en una semana en españa
By Carlos Zarate, in Front Page Articles, August 15, 2014
1 comment 1,317 views
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.

Bureau Veritas Develops Rules for Diving Support Units
By Association, in Front Page Articles, August 28, 2014
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