Holland College in Summerside PEI will be running a diving supervisors course that is DCBC accredited and meets all the CSA Competency requirements of Z274.4-12. Detail are: Diving Supervisors Course December 12 – 16, 2016 Location: Holland College Summerside, PEI Topics Include: Elements of supervision Motivation & communication Legislation Site emergencies and accident investigation Dive […]
Video taken at the underwater site of the sunken Manolis L shows the painstaking task for divers assessing the leaking hull of the ship near Change Islands, in Newfoundland’s Notre Dame Bay.Groups of two make five dives per day. It takes about 10 minutes to reach the hull on the ocean, and divers can only stay down for 30 […]
Bob Landry of Toronto, Ontario has received the prestigious CSA Award of Merit in recognition of longstanding involvement, exceptional industry insight and determined commitment to standards promoting diving safety. Bob is retired from the Ontario Ministry of Labour, but continues to generously give of his personal time to standards development at CSA Group as well […]
Diving professionals reflect on workplace death last year Information Morning – NS July 18, 2016 Season 2016, Episode 300256432 06:22 CLICK ON LINK BELOW TO HEAR CBC RADIO INTERVIEW OF DOUG ELSEY BY CBC’S ELIZABETH CHIU It’s been a year since diver Luke Seabrook was killed on the job at a Nova Scotia Power dam. […]
By Elizabeth Chiu, CBC News Posted: Jul 15, 2016 6:00 AM ATLast Updated: Jul 15, 2016 7:22 AM AT Luke Seabrook’s family on mission to prevent divers from dying on the job Luke Seabrook had five years of experience as a commercial diver when he was killed at the Nova Scotia Power tidal power plant in […]
(Reprint from CADC Magazine Spring/Summer 2016 ) The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors (CADC) and the Diver Certification Board of Canada (DCBC) are unanimous in pushing forward for nationwide implementation of a single diving standard based on the current CSA Standard Z275.2 (Diving Operations) and the Z275.4 (Diving Competency). These are minimum diving safety standards […]
The new CSA Z275.2-15 standard released last fall contains changes that have caused some confusion in their interpretation or intent within the industry. To clarify these clauses, the Z275 Diving Standards main technical committee has issued two interpretation documents addressing the clauses (Note: These are only interpretation documents. Any changes to the clauses will be […]
The CSA Diving Standards Committees are to meet in Vancouver for 3 days during the CSA AGM at the Weston BayShore Inn. The Diving Standards Meetings will be starting on TUESDAY afternoon (June 21st) and end on Thursday the 23rd. The exact schedule of the CSA meetings are (normal starts 0900 for morning and 13:30 […]
Most everything in this world has a “service life.” Not unlike, the diving industry in Canada is lead today by some incredible individuals, but we must all remember there were leaders before them and there will be leaders after them. As time marches on, so must the standards and regulations that provide the framework that […]
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