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IMCA Digest - November 2023
News
- New standard contract for offshore wind projects ensures a fairer distribution of risk
- New colleagues welcomed boosting skills and capacity
- Bryan McGlinchy set to retire as diving lead
- New recommended practice aims to improve safety in shallow waters
- Coming together to explore the new offshore environment
Safety Events
- Compressed air rather than oxygen supplied to divers
- Failure of proportional valve in saturation chamber control
- Case study: saturation diver fatality due to hydrogen Sulphide
- Case study: confined space fatalities due to Hydrogen Sulphide
- High potential near miss: Crane part fell to deck
- High potential near miss: Dropped Paraguard stretcher during drill
- Failure of AHC cylinder causing oil leak to deck
- Vehicle incident – driver tiredness
- Positive: Master stopped unsafe fuel transfer whilst vessel alongside rig
DP Events
No DP events published during this period.
Publications
- Guidance on open parachute type underwater air lift bags
- The initial and periodic examination, testing and certification of ROV launch and recovery systems
- Guidance on operational communications
- Diving in contaminated waters
- Guidelines for walk to work operations
- A guide to DP electrical power and control systems
- IMCA marine transport & installation renewables contract
- ROV audit guidance
- Guidance on operational activity planning
- ADCI/IOGP/IMCA diving terms
- Guidelines on the management of survey and inspection data
- IMCA Code of practice for offshore cable laying in the renewable energy industry
Information Notes
- Interim Industry Transit Advice, Southern Red Sea/Gulf of Aden
- IMCA International Code of Practice for Offshore Diving: Gulf of Mexico Appendix
- Industry Transit Advice, Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Sea of Oman
- Important PRS considerations when operating close to an asset that is not rigidly fixed to the seabed
Events
- 2 November 2023 - IMCA North America Regional Meeting
- 7-8 November 2023 - Bergen International Diving Seminar
- 8-9 November 2023 - Offshore Wind North East
- 8-9 November 2023 - IMCA South America Regional Meeting
- 10-12 November 2023 - International Diving Salvage and Marine Engineering Equipment Exhibition
- 28 November 2023 - IMCA Asia Pacific Regional Meeting - Jakarta