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IMCA and ADCI working together to benefit offshore commercial diving

Phillip Newsum

IMCA and ADCI working together to benefit offshore commercial diving

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) and the Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI), the two major trade associations in the commercial diving industry, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on matters of operational safety, training standards, and the mutual recognition of diver qualifications.

The two organisations have had a close relationship for a number of...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/07/10/imca-and-adci-working-together-to-benefit-offshore-commercial-diving/

Deepest submarine dive in history recorded

The Five Deeps Expedition has successfully dived to the bottom of one of the world’s five oceans. The team completed a mission to reach the deepest point on planet Earth: Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench.

Victor Vescovo achieved a new deep-diving record and is the first human to make multiple dives, solo, to its hadal depths in the DSV Limiting Factor the world’s deepest diving, currently operational submarine.

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The team measured and mapped the...

https://safety4sea.com/deepest-submarine-dive-in-history-recorded/

Floating platform for civil protection, disaster relief to be developed

General Dynamics European Land Systems-Bridge Systems (GDELS-Bridge Systems) will develop a multifunctional, modular floating platform known as Pontoon Boat (PoBo). PoBo is a modularly configurable floating device, that can be used to assemble heavy-duty transport, working, diving and recovery platforms or bridges.

The project was awarded under the Innovation Programme for the Support of Diversification Strategies of Defense Companies in Civil Security Technologies, or DIVERS. This is a program...

https://safety4sea.com/floating-platform-for-civil-protection-disaster-relief-to-be-developed/

Diver injures his finger in attempt to close bell door

As IMCA informs, a diver had a major injury to his finger that could cause possible infection if he had not been decompressed. While the dive team was attempting to close a bell door, the door moved and pinched him causing a deep cut to his finger.

The incident

At the end of the dive, when both divers had been recovered to the bell and were preparing for return to surface, one of them suffered an injury when his finger got caught between the top of the bell door and the retaining latch. The dive...

https://safety4sea.com/diver-injures-his-finger-in-attempt-to-close-bell-door/

Watch: New record dive by Russian Divers

Pacific Fleet divers (Pacific Fleet), the Navy Research Institute and a separate expedition detachment of divers aboard the Igor Belousov Pacific Fleet rescue ship dived in the Sea of Japan for the first time in the history of the Russian Navy and reached the depth of 416 meters.

The dive was carried out by the method of a long stay in the pressure chamber using a GVK-450 modern deep-water diving complex , located on board the vessel.

Under the control of specialists, the divers underwent...

https://safety4sea.com/new-record-dive-by-russian-divers/

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