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IMCA Digest - March 2024
News
- Working at Sea: IMO review of STCW identifies new focus areas
- ProjectGHG Forum: Join us for a vital conversation on GHGs
- Recognising exceptional bravery at sea
- Industry shares deep concern over tragic loss of life after Red Sea attack
- Revised Code of Practice equips Members with tools to meet sustainability challenge
- Innovation on display as IMCA chairs Subsea Expo session on ROVs
- New diving expert welcomed to IMCA
- Join us for a vital industry conversation on GHGs
Safety Events
- Loss of heading control on an FPU during diving operations
- Implosion of chemical tank
- USCG: hazard from discarded munitions
- Person injured when chain hoist container failed at securing point
- LTI: person slipped climbing out of tank
- Person struck and injured during lifting operations
- Person pulled to deck by fall arrest harness
- High potential: sea water inlet pipe leakage in engine room
- Security: Illegal boarding – theft while the vessel at anchor
- MSF: Chemical Handling – Eye Burn
DP Events
No DP events published during this period.
Publications
- Use of battery-operated equipment in hyperbaric conditions
- Station keeping incidents reported for 2015
- DP station keeping review – incidents and events reported for 2016
- Diving Equipment Systems Inspection Guidance Note (DESIGN) for Hyperbaric Rescue Unit Life Support Packages
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – incidents and events reported for 2020
- A comparison of moored and dynamically positioned diving support vessels
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – incidents and events reported for 2017
- Experience and employment profile of diving personnel: Profile for 2000
- Guidelines for the measurement of depth of burial
- Station keeping incidents reported for 2018
- Dynamic positioning station keeping review – incidents and events reported for 2021
- Fires in (DP) vessels
- Safe and efficient use of an uncrewed surface vessel (USV)
- FME(C)A guide for diving systems
- DP station keeping review – incidents and events reported for 2019
- Pressure gauges and other forms of pressure monitoring equipment used in conjunction with diving operations
- Cross-hauling of bells
- Guidance on thruster-assisted station keeping by FPSOs and similar turret-moored vessels
- Analysis of station keeping incident data 1994-2003
- Guidance on the investigation and reporting of incidents
- DP practitioner accreditation scheme handbook
- Surface supplied mixed gas diving operations
- Standardised boat landing research report
- Guidelines for the shared use of sensors for ROV and survey purposes
- Guidelines on the use of GNSS for tide calculations
- Introduction to ballast water management
- Guidance on the transfer of personnel to and from offshore vessels and structures
- Oil lubricated compressors
- Guidelines on the shared use of sensors for survey and positioning purposes
- Specification for DP capability plots
- Guidelines on out of straightness survey
- Guidance on the Systematic Assessment of Control Systems in Automated Diving Plant and Equipment
- IMCA Code of practice on environmental sustainability
- Inter-vessel survey data standard telemetry protocol
Events
- 13 March 2024 - IMCA South America Regional Meeting
- 13 March 2024 - IMCA Africa Regional Meeting
- 26 March 2024 - IMCA North America Regional Meeting