Tag: diving

IMCA provides lessons learned from an incident in which a diver’s umbilical trapped during a pipeline flooding operation. 

The UK P&I Club in the latest installment of the 'Inside Ship' video series, focuses on the risk and safeguarding measures for underwater diving in shipping.  

The Britannia P&I Club has issued its latest edition of “Risk Watch”, in which includes an article that highlights that operations by shipowners in underwater hull cleaning to maintain the efficiency and performance of their vessels, come with inherent risks that need to be effectively managed to ensure divers safety and prevent incidents.

Gareth Lock studies the Titan incident where an OceanGate submersible collapsed during its descent in the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately 370 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. 

A recent IMCA Safety Flash focuses on an incident in which, a dummy choke insert was ejected from a water injection (WI) tree by force of differential pressure, while divers were working nearby, to provide lessons learned.

A recent IMCA Safety Flash focuses on an incident in which a diver reported to the Dive Supervisor a drop in breathing gas pressure, to provide lessons learned.

International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) provides lessons learned from an incident regarding a small "champagne" leak the was noted in a diver's COBRA hose during a diving operation. 

International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) provides lessons learned from an incident where a diver experienced an air flow restriction while underwater, resulting in aborting the dive and returning back to surface.

After the container vessel VietSun Integrity capsized on October 19, on the Long Tau River, Vietnamese authorities began the salvage operations; Yet, local reports inform that during salvage operations, two divers remain missing, one was found and additional two were trapped under the collapsed container.

Scientists from the US Navy have joined forces with NASA Johnson Space Center to take an Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) technology, originally designed for diving, from seabed to space.