(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 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. […]
(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. […]
The 2018 MCM (Mine Counter Measures) / EOD (Explosive Ordinance) Calendar is available now! There are two versions – one ‘pretty” and the other “practical’. Our members of the CADC includes the Canadian Forces Fleet Diving Units and Police Search/Recovery/EOD units. Each year I put together a collection of some of images of IEDD / […]
A man has been sentenced after supplying falsified diving medical certificates to a diving company in 2016 in the UK. Leeds Magistrates’ Court heard that Daniel Tennant did not hold a valid medical certificate of fitness to dive. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) discovered that in 2016 the defendant was in possession of a […]
Luke Seabrook died in 2015 by being partially sucked through a tidal power control gate. It wasn’t a difficult job – but it certainly was a dangerous job if basic safety procedures around the structure were ignored or taken lightly. He wasn’t the first to succumb to this type of accident – and sadly he […]
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 […]
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