As this is being written (Oct 2020) , we have entered the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our industry—the provision of commercial underwater servicing—has been deemed an essential service in nearly all jurisdictions across North America. We are in the middle of it. We are on the front lines. From diver training and certification, […]
This issue of CADC Magazine has been a “stop the presses” moment. All planning for the publication—and our lives—ground to a halt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Articles ready for publishing went to the cutting room floor, held for a future edition. Getting appropriate information to our diving industry was top priority. To this end, we’re […]
As we go to press with this Summer 2019 edition of CADC Magazine, the CSA Diving Standards Committee Z275 will be working on the finalization of items and changes on the Diving Operations Standard Z275.2-15. One of the biggest discussion points will be the determination and debate over a minimum dive crew on ALL occupational […]
As the winter issue of CADC Magazine hits the deck, smoke signals rise from the hills, dales, and waterlines of Canada—on October 17, marijuana / cannabis use has officially been legalized in Canada. Its use may have been legally allowed, but as we all likely know, its illegal use has been going on for years! […]
It’s About time. It’s About lives. It’s spring/summer of 2018, and diving operations are in full swing in this thawed-out Canadian land. On the paperwork side, it has been a busy winter, too, as the CSA Diving Standards and the Offshore Petroleum Boards have been working on updating standards and the formulation of new offshore […]
(CADC PRESS RELEASE) The main technical committee for the CSA Diving Standards Group has unanimously approved at its April 2018 meeting an immediate amendment to the Diving Operations standard Z275.2-15 that will eliminate the clause 8.2.1.2 that allowed the use of a minimum three-man dive crew in low-risk surface supplied diving operations under Amendment 1. […]
The Board of Directors of CADC has chosen board member Dave Geddes for the office of president for the 2018-2020 Term. The president is traditionally chosen from the elected CADC Board of Directors as a leader/facilitator to carry a CADC agenda forward in areas that have concern to the CADC and our industry. Currently, CADC […]
(CADC MAG SUMMER 2017 – DIGITAL EDITION) “There are old divers – and there are bold divers. But there are very few old, bold divers” Commercial diving and the supply of underwater services is a serious business. Things have come a long way from “the good ol’ days” hard hat diver to the introduction of […]
Welcome to the digital edition of the 2016 -2017 Winter version of CADC Magazine. The adage that “the only thing sure thing in life is change” rings true as I write this just into the New Year. Besides the New Year and political shifts around the world, we in the Canadian Diving industry are facing […]
(PrePrint: CADC Mag Winter 2016-2017) The quest by our diving industry to implement one single national diving standard across the country got a big boast this fall when Provincial and territorial labour ministers gathered for an annual meeting with federal Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk in Prince George, B.C., in September 2016. On the agenda was […]
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