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| Title: | Scientific Diving Safety: Integrating Institutional, Team and Individual Responsibility. |
| Authors: | Pollock, NW |
| Keywords: | DIVING
Scientific Diving
accident
safety
incident
regulations
training
operational practices
individual capability
individual responsibility
fatality
case review |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) |
| Citation: | NW Pollock and JM Godfrey (Eds.) The Diving for Science…2007, Proceedings of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), Twenty-sixth annual Scientific Diving Symposium, University of Miami, Miami, FL. |
| Abstract: | Scientific diving enjoys an enviable safety record. An unusual cluster of accidents occurred over an eight-day period in August 2006, when three incidents associated with disparate science operations resulted in four fatalities. The first involved a 37-year-old graduate student in Florida, freediving to hand-capture an estimated 300-lb green sea turtle. The second involved a 56-year-old researcher in New Jersey, diving from a research vessel to install a sensor on an underwater observatory platform positioned 50 ft underwater. The third involved two US Coast Guard divers (31 and 22 years-of-age), diving from a Coast Guard icebreaker, 500 miles north of Barrow, Alaska. The collection demonstrates how easily seemingly reasonable situations can lead to incidents. Safety depends upon appropriate regulations, crew training, operational practices, individual capability and individual responsibility. Review of the three fatal incidents is used to frame the need for active strategies to reinforce the complementary function of institutional, team and individual responsibilities in scientific diving. |
| Description: | American Academy of Underwater Sciences (http://www.aaus.org/) |
| URI: | http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/6992 |
| ISBN: | 0-9800423-1-3 |
| Appears in Collections: | American Academy of Underwater Sciences
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