Archive for November, 2015

New CSA Diving Operations Standards Z275.2-15 hits the streets.

Monday, November 30th, 2015

The new CSA Dive Standard Z275-15 (Diving Operations) is finally on the streets and available from the Canadian Standards Association website. There are numerous changes and updates to the new standard. A direct quote from the standards preface: “This is the sixth edition of CSA Z275.2, Occupational safety code for diving operations. It supersedes the […]

Diving Supervisors Course to be held in Dec / Jan.

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Several Dive Supervisors courses will be held in December and Jan.  The diving supervisor course will be of 36 hours duration, be taught by a diving supervisor with five years’ experience as a supervisor and three years’ experience as a teacher at an accredited diver training establishment, and will cover the following subjects: (i) elements […]

Nova Scotia diving regulations ‘at the bottom’ in Canada

Thursday, November 5th, 2015

(Reprint from CBC Website) Gord Hay remembers Luke Seabrook as a “very keen” and eager student of commercial diving at the Canadian Working Divers Institute in 2010. In Hay’s 23 years running the school in Chapleau, Ont., Seabrook is the first graduate to die on the job, and that angers Hay. “This should never have […]

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