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  Best of Show for me this year at Underwater Intervention is Dark Water Visions, The Hammer Head. I was walking around between meetings just looking at what the different booths had to offer. I've been around long enough that I don't get excited by most new innovations. The instant I put the Hammer Head on my thought was: “I would love to burn in black water with this!” After that first thought a whole list of times I was diving or supervising I would have loved to have it came to mind. I started running around like a diver just out of school grabbing guys like Donald Dryden, Les Gorski and Sid Preskitt: “You gotta see this!

My BEST OF SHOW at Underwater Intervention
By JCROAT Subject Matter Expert, in Front Page Articles, February 28, 2017
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Objective: Create an accepted Underwater Oxy-Arc Burning Certification
Why: Because there is none and it is a misused tool. All we have today is suggested practices that have no standing under law.

Up-Date Stand Alone: Oxy-Arc Underwater Burning Training Course
By JCROAT Subject Matter Expert, in Front Page Articles, February 26, 2017
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Why You need to attend! This Panel & Craw-Fish Boil
All Project Managers, Dive Supervisors/Superintendents, Saturation Technician, Life Support Supervisor, Life Support Technician and Divers attending Underwater Intervention February 23, 2016.

The purpose of the panel: Is to inform Dive personnel where we stand with Coast Guard & The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, BSEE, serious incident Investigations and up coming Coast Guard Regulation changes.

Panel: The Panel discussion will take place at Hyatt Place Convention Center, Conference room, 881 Convention Center Boulevard, New Orleans This is straight across the Street from Underwater Intervention. There will be a meet and great in the Conference Room starting at 13:00 23, February 2016. The Panel Presentation will kick off at 14:00 and be secured no later then 17:00. This will depend on the amount of audience participation.

Panel Members: Regulators from the Coast Guard & BSEE. Dive Company Operations Manager, Saturation Technician, Oil Company Dive Representative, Dive Supervisor, IMCA Representative

The Fisk Marine: Craw-fish Boil is scheduled to start at 17;30 at the Rusty Nail, 1100 Constance St, New Orleans, it has been reserved for that purpose. It is with in walking distance of the Hyatt. http://www.therustynail.biz/

The Panel is being presented by JCRoat Subject Matter Expert Services and Johnny Fisk of Fisk Marine Insurancehttps://fiskusa.com/

Sups, Divers, LSS ,LST, Sat Tech and Project Managers get first call on seating!

BSEE and Diver Safety In the United States?
By JCROAT Subject Matter Expert, in Front Page Articles, December 2, 2013
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It's not on anyone else when one of us dies but us. It doesn't cost the company that cut corners on the their job plan, their life. It doesn't cost the company you're working for, that  made the cheapest bid, to get the poorly planed job, their life. It is the guy doing the job and remember you took the job.

It is on us!
By JCROAT Subject Matter Expert, in Front Page Articles, February 19, 2017
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Commercial Diving Technologies, LLC (CDT) is engaged in talks with John Roat, JCRoat Subject Matter Expert Services to develop a stand alone underwater burning training course.

A stand alone underwater burning training course.
By Association, in Front Page Articles, February 15, 2017
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It is time again for CUCE
 

Canadian Underwater Conference and Exhibition
By Hal Lomax, in Front Page Articles, February 13, 2017
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The Divers Association urges everyone, world wide to sign this petition: Protect Commercial Divers' Lives Again action on the revision of regulation has been postponed. No result in more then 18 years! CHANGES TO CFRs ARE IN BUREAUCRATIC LIMBO!

Protect Commercial Divers' Lives
By Association, in Front Page Articles, February 12, 2017
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For those attending Underwater Intervention this year do not miss the best gathering of divers this end of the Universe. This year joining Fisk Marine Insurance as sponsors are Oxylance & BayTech & VideoRay


At UI The 8th Annual Sea Food Boil
By Association, in Front Page Articles, February 8, 2017
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First Two Fatalities in 2017
By Mark Longstreath, in Front Page Articles, January 25, 2017
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Why do all of these diving accidents keep happening?

 
There is one unfortunate constant in the diving industry: accidents. Scarcely a week goes by that we do not hear of a diver dying in an accident. This week it may be offshore, next week it may be in a harbor; it seems to happen in every country on this earth where divers are working. To someone new to the industry, it would appear that all of these accidents are different and unrelated. But to those of us who have been around for any length of time, the sickening reality is that they are all the same – we keep making the same mistakes over and over, and young divers are dying because we are making these mistakes.
 

Why do all of these diving accidents keep happening?
By Hal Lomax, in Front Page Articles, February 16, 2016
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