Hi, here is a comment I did find on the web with a link to a PDF report file concerning a diving incident that happened in Switzerland. On August 31st, 2010, a diver was servicing the spent fuel pool at the Leibstadt nuclear reactor in Switzerland. He spotted an unidentified length of tubing on the bottom of the pool and radioed his supervisor to ask what to do. He was told to put it in his tool basket, which he did. Due to bubble noise in the pool, he didn’t hear his radiation alarm. When the tool basket was lifted from the water, the room’s radiation alarms went off. The basket was dropped back in the water and the diver left the pool. The diver’s dosimeter badges showed that he’d received a higher-than-normal whole-body dose, and the dose in his right hand was extremely high. The object turned out to be protective tubing from a radiation monitor in the reactor core, made highly radioactive by neutron flux. It had been accidentally sheared off while a capsule was being closed in 2006. It sank to a remote corner of the pool floor, where it sat unnoticed for four years. The tubing was so radioactive that if he’d tucked it into a tool belt or shoulder bag, where it sat close to his body, he could’ve been killed. As it was, the water protected him, and only his hand—a body part more resistant to radiation than the delicate internal organs—received a heavy dose.

Hi dear Colleagues, do you know who where the first commercial divers to have installed an underwater spool piece? If not, read this article. https://medium.com/@francis.hermans4/a-blast-from-the-past-the-daring-underwater-repair-of-the-narrows-pipeline-aec32f108331

Watch out for those freezers folks! The latest IMCA safety flash has been published, covering the following incidents: 1. Dropped object: falling shim plate while lowering A-frame 2. W2W gangway bumper damaged during demonstration 3. Towing wire parted 4. BSEE: Falling corroded crane component results in near miss 5. 5 Cook temporarily trapped in freezer

Today marks four years since one of the darkest days in our commercial diving industry. On this date, five divers were violently sucked into a 30" pipeline.Chris survived. Rishi, Fyzal, Yusuf, and Kazim did not. As the anniversary returns, many people will once again discuss what happened, often with incomplete or inaccurate information. To help bring clarity, I’ve written a detailed article retracing the events exactly as they unfolded during those dramatic days. 👉 Here is a clear reminder of what really happened. https://medium.com/@francis.hermans4/the-caribbean-delta-p-incident-f90284948787 May their memory continue to push our industry toward better understanding, better preparedness, and better safety. RIP, brothers.

Hi everyone, I am opposed to the use of wrist‑mounted dive computers in commercial diving. However, I do wonder whether it might be worthwhile for commercial divers to wear a small electronic sensor of this type. The device cannot be read underwater, but it records and stores all dive information, which can later be downloaded to a computer. Several inshore divers here in Belgium have been using it for many years, and personally I find this kind of logging device very useful. In the event of a dispute, it can provide a great deal of valuable information about any problematic dives.