IAN FAIRCLOUGH VALLEY-SOUTHWEST Published October 20, 2015 – 6:42pm A 41-year-old Digby County man has been slapped with more than $60,000 in fines and penalties for violations of occupational diving regulations and ignoring a stop-work order. Frank Joseph (Joey) Oickle was sentenced Tuesday in Digby provincial court. The owner of CJM Fisheries Ltd. was charged […]
Diving Supervisors Course Date: Dec 14-18, 2015 Location: Ottawa Police Services 245 Greenbank Rd. Nepean (Ottawa area), Ontario Topics Include: Elements of supervision Motivation & communication Legislation Site emergencies and accident investigation Dive accident prevention and management planning Health and Safety, policies, management and procedures Management of simulated diving emergencies (shams)- theory only Review […]
On Monday August 31, 2015, Jim Wilson – former Executive Director of the CADC – died peacefully in his room at Sunnybrook Veterans’ Centre surrounded by his family. He was 88 years old. Jim was predeceased by his beloved wife of nearly 60 years, Joyce Woodburn (April 2013) and is survived by his children […]
The CSA Diving Standards committees will be meeting in Marriott Hotel in Niagara Falls June 16-18th in conjunction with the CSA Annual General Meetings. Committee meetings are scheduled as follows: Tues., June 16 13:30 – 17:00 Z275.1 Hyperbarics SC Wed., June 17 10:00 – 12:00 Z275.2 Diving Safety Code SC Wed., June 17 13:00 […]
Steve Duffy of Surrey BC was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Canadian Underwater Conference in Victoria BC in March in recognition for his work in dive safety for the Canadian diving industry. Steve Duffy was a Royal Canadian Navy Clearance diver who was trained at Fleet Diving Unit (Pacific) and the Naval School […]
It is with sadness that we advise that our our immediate past CADC president Glenn Costello passed away last week from complications from a respiratory ailment. Glenn Costello was until recently the President of Canpac Divers Inc and was a past member of the Canadian Standards Association, Committee for Occupational Diving and Hyperbaric and Caisson […]
The Canadian Working Divers Institute is running a DCBC approved Unrestricted and Restrictive Surface-Supplied Diving Supervisors Course. Course runs from 07:00 to 15:00 for 4 days $750 tax free tuition Toronto March 16th to 19th Comfort Inn on Airport Road, (call 905-677-7331 to reserve a room $99/night) Vancouver April 1 to 4th (after the Canadian […]
Divers are divers – commercial or military or police or public service. We all share a waterline over our head! As I have done in the past, the new 2015 Screen Saver Calendar of the Mine Counter Measures (MCM) divers of the NATO’s Deep Diving Teams divers plying their trade has been released today – […]
The times they are a changin’,” sang Bob Dylan. Our Diving industry is in the midst of a sea of change. Crooner Bobby was so prophetic; I wonder if he ever got wet? I attended a meeting of the Ontario Infrastructure Health and Safety Association-Diving Labour Management Committee to discuss issues working divers and companies […]
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