IMCA Digest - October 2022

• Major review of key IMCA DESIGN documents completed
• 40 years since the successful salvage of King Henry VIII’s Mary Rose, achieved with help from the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry ‘Giants’
• Identifying suitable commercial diving qualifications

• Unsafe transportation and packing arrangements
• Damage to chain hoist subsea
• BSEE: Stored Energy in Slings Causes Multiple Injuries
• Failure of slings during loading operations
• Serious injury during mooring operations: rope parted
• LTI: person struck by uncontrolled swing in chain  
• LTI: fractured finger during anchor handling  
• Cook’s arm scalded while removing food from oven
• BSEE: Unsecured Pressurized Hoses Result in Hand Injuries
• Diver Finger Injury – Scrubber Blower Fan

No DP events published during this period.

• Risk based assessment of cylinder internal examination periodicity

• Registration and Revalidation of South African Diving Qualifications
• COBRA Bailout System: Bailout Duration Times
• IMCA Membership Renewal 2023

• 5 October 2022 - IMCA visits Tyne Coast College
• 11-12 October 2022 - MTS DP Conference
• 17-18 October 2022 - Global Offshore Wind Summit Taiwan
• 26 October 2022 - IMCA South America Regional Meeting
• 27 October 2022 - IMCA Lifting & Rigging Seminar 2022