Paul’s Diving must pay fines and hold 15 safety presentations by next October By Emma Smith, CBC News Posted: Oct 26, 2017 7:55 PM ATLast Updated: Oct 26, 2017 7:55 PM AT Luke Seabrook, 39, was working to inspect the gates that control the flow of the Annapolis River tides. (Seabrook family) Related Stories Company pleads […]
Mother of diver says company’s guilty plea will do nothing to improve safety CBC News Posted: Sep 14, 2017 5:51 PM ATLast Updated: Sep 14, 2017 10:08 PM AT Luke Seabrook trained to become a commercial diver in Ontario. (Seabrook family) Safety violations laid in diver’s death at Nova Scotia Power plant ‘Enough’s enough’: Safety […]
Phil Nuytten – a founding member of the CADC and a former past president of the association – has been recognized for his contributions to deep-sea exploration. Phil began his career as a commercial diver, but was driven to develop his own equipment through an almost intuitive ability to understand the forces at work beneath […]
(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 […]
CSA Dive Standards Committee will meet in Halifax Nova Scotia in conjunction with the Canadian Standards Associations AGM (June 18-20.) Dive Committee meetings will take place at the Halifax during the committee week from June 21 > 22 2017. June 21 (8:30 a.m. – 10:00) Hyperbaric Facilities SC (Z275.1) June 21 (10:15 a.m. – 12:00 […]
CADC member Dominion Diving announces that it has reduced costs by customising its Saab Seaeye Cougar XT light work electric ROV and boosting its performance. The resulting Cougar XT custom version could handle a tooling package normally possible only on a much larger hydraulic system – and take on three demanding tasks in one hit. Founded 50 years […]
Jim Garrington of Shark Marine is presented with the 2017 Technical Achievement award by DCBC Chairman Johnathon Chapple at the Canadian Underwater Conference in Ottawa last week. Under Jim’s guidance, Shark Marine Technologies Inc. has become a major manufacturer of underwater products that are innovative, high quality, dependable, and cost effective. It’s products include ROVs, […]
The “Infrastructure Health and Safety Association’ (IHSA – formerly the CSAO) has completed arrangements to offer a Diving Supervisor Training program in conjunction with Mr. Dave Geddes (DCBC certified course instructor) . The course concept of joint partnership in its presentation was proposed by the CADC during discussions with the Ontario Commercial Diving Trade Labour […]
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 […]
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