ADCI Underwater Today

The Navy Revision 6 (Navy Rev. 6) was formally issued on April 15, 2008. It superseded Navy Rev. 5, dated August 2005. Navy Rev. 6 represented the largest changes in diving procedures since 1956 as the Navy made major changes to its decompression procedures using air and/or oxygen. The changes in Navy Rev. 6 "Air" in water decompression are signficant as they eliminated the 10 foot stop by changing the last stop to 20 foot and they added in water decompression for dives that had previously required either no in water decompression or short duration water stops.

Awards and tributes presented to dive pioneer Dick Rutkowski might outweigh the two large hyperbaric chambers at his Key Largo instructional center for clinical and medical seminars. The total got heavier still when the Association of Diving Contractors International tapped Rutkowski as its 2019 choice to join its Commercial Diving Hall of Fame.

 

 

 

The May/June Issue of Underwater Magazine is online now. This issue features a fresh new design for Underwater. It features a preview of the Commercial Diving Workshops in store for Underwater Intervention 2020, an article about preventing decompression illness using the right tables, and a cover story about the unprecedented response to Hurricane Michael. All of this and much more in the May/June issue of UNDERWATER.

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.

There have been many inquiries about the process and procedures on applying for a variance (comparable level of safety) with the USCG.  The USCG has provided the following link which details the procedures for USCG Variance Requests.

Unique Group, an integrated subsea and offshore solutions provider, has appointed Matthew Gordon as the new Regional Vice President for the Europe and UK region to oversee the company’s strategic expansion plans.

A BRITISH diver cheated death after he was stranded 300ft under the North Sea - but miraculously managed to survive without oxygen for 35 minutes.