Canadian Association of Diving Contractors

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! […]

The CSA Diving Standards Group has unanimously approved an amendment to the Diving Operations standard Z275.2-15 that requires a minimum qualified and competent four person dive crew on ALL surface supplied diving operations. The crew shall consist of a Dive Supervisor, Diver, Standby Diver and a diver’s tender. (This is in effect Nov 1st 2018 […]

The CSA Diving Standards Group has unanimously approved the final and immediate amendment to the Diving Operations standard Z275.2-15 that eliminates the clause 8.2.1.2 in that standard that allowed for the use of a minimum three-man dive crew (plus an “emergency assistant”) in low-risk surface supplied diving operations. This comes into effect Nov 1st, 2018. […]

The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors (CADC) has been providing technical and operational background insights to major Canadian news networks on the ongoing rescue efforts being conducted in Thailand of thirteen members of a soccer team trapped in a cave. To date, the rescue of several boys has been successfully completed with the unfortunate death […]

(ED NOTE: This is a reprint of the article – ” Death of a Diver: The Human Cost of a Diving Accident”  published in the 2018 Summer Edition of the CADC Magazine – downloadable below.) This reprint also features a presentation by Joey Oickle – the person charged with the violating several safety regulations – […]

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 Note: So, you have a cottage and need your water intake checked – or your dock checked – or find your fishing rod that you lost last fall. Or you may be a golf club owner with too many balls in the water hazards that you want to fish out. BUT heh!!! You have […]

(Some jurisdictions in the diving industry allow for the use of a three-man dive crew on a jobsite. But, when you think of it, what is the operational position of this crew? Who is doing what?  Let’s look at a typical three-man dive crew on a jobsite through the eyes—and voice—of the man in charge. […]

(Pre-Print from CADC Mag Winter 2017-18) Thirty-nine-year-old Luke Seabrook from Dartmouth, NS, was killed on the job on July 15, 2015 as he was inspecting an underwater dam gate at the Nova Scotia Power plant in Annapolis Royal. He died when he was sucked into a gap under the gate, which should have been closed. […]

As I wrote this, we were just into the first part of December, and this country has rain on the coasts, snow in the mountains, green grass in the middle, with temperatures ranging from +15˚C to -30˚C all over the place. All at once, we have rain, slush, snow and green grass. Gotta love this […]