In an e-mail discussion I was having with a friend, a small dive company owner and a member of the ADCI; he took exception to the Divers Association minimum 5-man dive team position. He proposed what is below.
“Perhaps by presenting more details and the circumstances of fatal diving accidents and incidents would be a good place to start to assess the following:
1) Accident description including diving and support crew size, weather and sea conditions, fixed/stationary work platform or live boat, whether offshore oil field project or inland/coastal, etc.
2) Dive station details including dive equipment (length of tethers, etc.), other support and work equipment utilized for work activities (jetting, burning, power tools, etc.), water access for tender, diver & stand-by diver to I ingress/egress (height above waterline, ladder or stage required, etc.).
3) Fatality or reportable incident causing injury, OSHA records showing reportable injuries and fatalities, etc.
4) Statement and analysis of accident as to why using a crew size of less than 5 contributed to fatality or injury.â€
On the face of it not a bad suggestion, except find me any of that information in any OSHA or Coast Guard or ADCI indecent/injury or death report.
ADCI Safety Flashes: http://www.naylornet...m/adc-advisory/
OSHA Death Report: http://www.osha.gov/...il?id=309578367
Coast Guard Death Report: http://cgmix.uscg.mi.../IIRSearch.aspx in the box Involved Vessel; Type in Witch Queen.
That’s right: none of it is there and the ADCI has never asked for it to be there! We are lucky to get anything more than rumor for a minimum of a year, sometimes 2, maybe never!
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