IMCA Digest - June 2021
News
- Offshore Industry Group strongly supports IMO’s Day of the Seafarer and call for a fair future for Seafarers
- IMCA supports Day of the Seafarer
- IMCA Marine Technical Expertise Enhanced
- Webinar: Remote observation & technology driven assurance
- Support the data collection exercise on vaccination of Seafarers
- Maryland Port Administration – vaccination update
- Belgium starts seafarer vaccination
- World Oceans Day 2021
- IMCA Publishes Guidelines on the use of GNSS for Tide Calculations
- Podcast – IMCA S 027 GNSS for Tide Calculations
- Canadian Government vaccination news
- Podcast on IMCA’s Recommended Code of Practice on Environmental Sustainability
- British Health & Safety Executive Offshore Diving Inspection Guide 2021 for External Consultation
Published Articles
No articles published during this period.
Safety Events
- Lifting frame detached from fast rescue craft (FRC)
- Dropped Object – door detached from TMS during dive
- MSF: Potential dropped object
- Dropped object during lifting operations
- Failure of EGS valve stem on dive helmet
- MSF: Engine damage after routine maintenance
- Inadvertently drinking hazardous substances
- NTSB: Fire on laid up Dive Support Vessel
- MSF: Tank corrosion
- Fatality – explosive failure of corroded fire extinguisher
- UK HSE: worker fatally injured in oil drum explosion
- Inhalation of toxic fumes during hot work
- UK HSE: Employee in a port suffers life changing injuries in clamp truck incident
- LTI: Hand injury during diving operations
- Learning outcomes from a real time diver recovery
Publications
Information Notes
Events
- 7-11 June 2021 - SUT Virtual Subsea Awareness Course - Discount available for IMCA Members
- 23 June 2021 - Asia-Pacific and Middle East & India joint webinar