2cold4california
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There is an old adage....when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Attached is a clip from a recent OSHA presentation. The saturation diving in the oil industry has had ZERO fatalities since 2008.
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Nice job cherry picking 5 years worth of statistics in an industry that is disappearing. Care to quote OSHA for 1980-2008?? Here I'll help you out!
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00053331.htm?mobile=nocontent
During 1989-1997, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recorded 116 occupational diving fatalities in the United States (OSHA, unpublished data, 1998). * During 1990-1997, nine persons in Alaska died in work-related diving incidents (four were investigated by OSHA); only one had training beyond a recreational diving certificate, and three lacked any certification. In response to concerns about adequate training of occupational divers in Alaska and recent public inquiry, CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reviewed the nine occupational diving fatalities in Alaska. ** This report describes three of these incidents, summarizes the results of the review, and provides recommendations to improve the safety of commercial diving.
https://fiskusa.com/blog/offshore-oilfield-consultants/offshore-workers-more-likely-to-die-on-job/
"Still, the fatality rate for offshore oil and gas workers was found to be 27.1 deaths per 100,000 workers compared to the average 3.8 deaths. "
http://www.wrightroy.com/legal-news/maritime-industry-has-greatest-number-of-fatalities/
"Maritime Industry Has Greatest Number of Fatalities
According to an April 2013 study by the CDC, Offshore workers in the Oil and Gas Industry are seven times more likely to be killed on the job than workers in any other industry. The study considered offshore fatalities between 2003-2010, with 27.1 deaths versus 3.8 deaths per 100,000 workers. Transportation was cited as the most dangerous aspect of the job, with 51% attributed to transportation accidents. Fatality information was obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Industries. To read the full study, titled Fatal Injuries in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations — United States, 2003–2010, click here."
http://timhettler.tumblr.com/post/46395722645/diving-deep-into-danger
It's so easy to prove you wrong lol!
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This guy's hilarious - especially where we live in a world where a 200m+ CCR dive isn't any kind of a record, even if the logistics make it such a huge annoyance few of us bother doing it, much less every weekend.
What I really want to know if whether, after his 14 years of diving, that 50-99 dive count is accurate. That'd be about the only thing that could make his posts funnier.
I don't dive as a profession. I'm smart enough to make a living otherwise. It's hilarious to me how condescending you commercial guys sound when you are basically expendable to the oil company. "You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill"
Come at me with your best argument, you will lose. So instead you say "this guy...." Well guess what "this guy"
will make you look like a fool if you don't know what you're talking about.
Why can't you refute what I say if it's wrong?