2019 will be the final year of the ADCI Audit Initiative. By March 1, 2020, every ADCI Member will need to have submitted to an audit. The 36-month initiative kicked off on March 1, 2017. The purpose of the initiative is for ADCI member companies and schools to formally demonstrate adherence to the International Consensus Standards for Commercial Diving and Underwater Operations. 

Ziven Drake has always been a tomboy. As a former US Air Force mechanic and a current member of the Pile Drivers Local 56 Union, the 36-year-old Dorchester transplant from Woodstock, Vermont, is used to being in environments that are male-dominated. Drake has often been the sole woman in her fields of activity, but that hasn’t held her back; in fact, she was recently named Trades Woman of the Year by the Associated General Contractors of Massachusetts in recognition of her excellent work as a commercial diver with Local 56.

Twenty-eight students are attending McNeese State University thanks in part to the Horatio Alger William J. Doré Louisiana Scholarship. The scholarship was established by McNeese graduate William "Bill" J. Doré, founder of Global Industries Ltd., a worldwide marine construction and offshore diving company. Doré is a national Horatio Alger Award recipient for his lifetime achievement and success as an entrepreneur.

 

 

 

 

 

In an effort to continue to be the strongest advocate for the entire underwater industry, the ADCI formalized two strategic partnerships with other industry associations. One is with the American Salvage Association (ASA), and the other, with the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA).

 

The March/April Issue of Underwater Magazine is online now. This issue features a fresh new design for Underwater. It features a recap of Underwater Intervention 2019, an article on dive safety, an article on dive medicine relating to common illnesses, and much more! All of this in the latest issue of Underwater Magazine.

UNDERWATER Magazine and the ADCI are looking to continue their library of industry-related images. If you have any great pictures of commercial divers, job sites, equipment, or anything else related to the industry that you would be willing to share and possibly see published in an upcoming issue of UNDERWATER Magazine please contact Steve Guglielmo at sguglielmo@naylor.com

NUI AS, on behalf of The Association of Operators for Hyperbaric Lifeboat Reception Facilities (OFHB) will hold the 26th Bergen International Diving Semi-nar on the 13th and 14th of November 2019. For the 2019 seminar we are aiming to have similar success as in the previous 25 events and hope to achieve more participants this year as we had in 2017 when 169 delegates from 77 Companies and Organisations enjoyed two very good days in Bergen listening to the 28 speakers and participating in lively discussions relating to the diving industry.

Chet Morrison Contractors LLC, a leading energy service company for the oil, gas and renewables industries, has acquired two pipelay/construction barges and a saturation diving system, effectively doubling the size of its pipelay barge fleet and increasing its saturation diving capabilities.

A Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Atlantic team recently completed an Automated Dive Profile Data Transmission and Synchronization (Auto-DPTS) prototype aimed at streamlining the dive logging process for Navy dive units.

Divers from the Royal Navy have safely detonated a number of wartime bombs, shells and flares.