Canadian Association of Diving Contractors

A link to the current CSA Diving Standards has been placed in the banner under SAFETY. The Standards are the backbone for safe diving and operational procedures for use in CANADA as well as international areas. A commitment for CADC members is compliance to the 275.4 (Competency) and 275.2 (Operations) for membership. Direct link is: […]

(British Columbia) .. The proposal relating to Part 24, Diving, Fishing and Other Marine Operations, is not being taken to public hearings at this time by WorksafeBC to enable consideration of the new edition of CSA Standard Z275.4. CSA Competency Standard Z275.4 has been recently published by the CSA and is now current. CADC is […]

Missed the latest issue of CADC Magazine. Read it online NOW (including smartphones, Iphones, and Ipads!!). You can download it, print it .. and link to the advertisers!!! If your own copy of the CADC magazine, go to the free subscription page noted in the header above. ONLINE LINK IS is at http://www.CADC.ca/cadcmag/fall2011 This issue […]

The Annual 2012 Diving Screensaver and printable MCM Diving Calendar is now available via the authors photo website (DougElsey.com). This one is a bit different in that it has a real-time clock and calendar going on with it as well as the photo’s from this years Deep Divex and other MCM images. The photos were […]

Mr. Glenn Costello has been elected president of the CADC for the 2012 2013 term. Mr. Costello is the President of Canpac Divers Inc and is a past member of the Canadian Standards Association, Committee for Occupational Diving and Hyperbaric and Caisson Sub-Committees. Mr. Costello has also assisted with the formulation of diving standards for […]

The Ontario Ministry of Labour has released a new video on Dive Safety around dams. Check it out. Also see the Guidelines on working around Delta P situations also on this site. Click here to be directed to Guidelines.

Circa late 1970’s, a diver from Can Dives Great lakes division prepares to enter a manhole full of industrial debris at container pier in Halifax nova scotia.

MONTREAL — Quebec’s labour minister said it’s “unimaginable” that wildcat strikers would cut off the air supply to two construction divers on a worksite north of Montreal on Monday. The divers in Trois-Rivieres, Que., about 140 km north of Montreal, were shaken but unharmed when a roving group of union delegates forcibly shut down the […]

Guideline updated Oct 17, 2011   Occupational Health and Safety statistics reveal that a very high proportion of occupational diving fatalities occur because of divers encounters with differential pressures at dams and other work sites.  Furthermore the investigations of these tragic incidents indicate that the majority of these encounters were preventable. This guideline is primarily […]