Despite events two days earlier in the United States of America, over 50 delegates joined together in Stavanger for the seminar, held for the first time alongside IMCA's tenth annual Marine Division Seminar & Workshops, the event as a whole having attracted around 250 registrations.

The day included a joint session with the marine event, with presentations relevant to delegates from across the marine contracting sector. This was followed by two parallel sessions, one specifically focussed on diving topics, then, after lunch, two workshops sessions, bit both topics of joint and seperate interest to those attending the two events.

As in previous years, a wide range of operational and managerial personnel from across the industry attended the event, bringing a broad depth of experience and using it to good effect in lively and constructive debate. Members of IMCA's Diving Division Management Committee came away with a number of topics having been highlighted as ones where IMCA could usefully carry out work and provide guidance for its members.

Seminar Papers

• The role and value of DP vessels in emergency intervention: The search and rescue perspective
  - Olav Sønderland, Politmesteren i Stavanger
  How a contractor responds
  - Jens-Christian Terjesen, Halliburton Subsea
• Regulatory developments in the Norwegian sector for DP vessels and DSVs
  Olav Hauso, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate
• Thermal testing of hyperbaric lifeboats: The issues arising in a tropical environment
  - David Jenkins, Coflexip Stena Offshore Asia Pacific
• Diving in contaminated waters
  - Joar Gangenes and OC Andersen, Stolt Offshore AS
• Experience and employment profile of diving personnel
  - Crawford Logan - Technical Adviser, IMCA Diving Division

Workshops

• DP bridge-dive control communications
  Chairman: Pete Somner, Halliburton Subsea
• Thermal testing of hyperbaric lifeboats
  Chairman: David Jenkins, Coflexip Stena Offshore Asia Pacific
• Diving in contaminated waters
  Chairman: Alan Forsyth, Halliburton Subsea

This document combines the joint presentations, plus those from the diving-specific session and summaries of the discussions in each workshop. Proceedings of the full two-day Marine Division event, including the papers available in this document, are available as IMCA M 164.