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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Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recorded 116 occupational diving fatalities in the United States (OSHA, unpublished data, 1998).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!

---------- Post added July 27th, 2014 at 05:43 PM ----------

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?
 
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!

Deaths Associated with Occupational Diving -- Alaska, 1990-1997

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. "

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."

Diving Deep into Danger - timhettler.com


It's so easy to prove you wrong lol!
You are having some problems with reading comprehension, it seems. I'm talking diving fatalities in saturation diving....you are talking about the entire industry.
I see no point in further discussion on this. Your hole is so deep I can hardly see you down there.
 
You are having some problems with reading comprehension, it seems. I'm talking diving fatalities....you are talking about the entire industry,
I see no point in further discussion on this. Your hole is so deep I can hardly see you down there.

You quoted 2008-2013. where are the rest?



Good, run away, you wouldn't do well in this argument and you haven't so far.

---------- Post added July 27th, 2014 at 05:52 PM ----------

Here is a pertinent abstract on the health of divers doing this dives over ten years. They found bubbles in their brains! Almost all of the divers had serious medical issues as a result of the work they did.

---------- Post added July 27th, 2014 at 05:53 PM ----------

http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr244.pdf
 
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?

I'm not a professional diver of any kind - my profession generally involves handling large banks and hedge funds' pre-indictment problems, though I'm happy to work on whatever's interesting and has large enough margins to justify our hourly rates. While I only take my CCR out for fun, your posts show that of the two of us, I'm the one who knows what he's talking about vis-à-vis risks inherent in deep diving.

But, since Akimbo is here, I can just sit back and watch a blustering ignorance make a fool of himself. :popcorn:
 
I'm not a professional diver of any kind - my profession generally involves handling large banks and hedge funds' pre-indictment problems, though I'm happy to work on whatever's interesting and has large enough margins to justify our hourly rates. While I only take my CCR out for fun, your posts show that of the two of us, I'm the one who knows what he's talking about vis-à-vis risks inherent in deep diving.

But, since Akimbo is here, I can just sit back and watch a blustering ignorance make a fool of himself. :popcorn:

I'm watching you right now, I guess you found a mirror. You have nothing to contribute, thanks, sit down and let the adults work this out :wink:



Omg lol I didn't even read your post! Hedge funds? RFLMAO Seriously I love how people love to pretend on the internet. Talk big act small that's your motto!
 
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I'm watching you right now, I guess you found a mirror. You have nothing to contribute, thanks, sit down and let the adults work this out :wink:



Omg lol I didn't even read your post! Hedge funds? RFLMAO Seriously I love how people love to pretend on the internet. Talk big act small that's your motto!

Whatever you say. Would this particular "adult" like to tell the thread if he's actually got 50-99 dives after his 14 years of diving? Might help us all work out how full of :censored: he is :wink:
 
What mod is hiding your summary ownage from the world? Come on if you guys are killing it so bad why hide the thread?


I'm glad I can still embarrass a few so called experts for fun. You guys are a laugh. Unhide the thread mod and I'll reply

---------- Post added July 27th, 2014 at 06:13 PM ----------

Whatever you say. Would this particular "adult" like to tell the thread if he's actually got 50-99 dives after his 14 years of diving? Might help us all work out how full of :censored: he is :wink:

Dog I'm saturation diving right now. Wifi in the chamber.


For real you look like a joke and you should thank the mod for hiding your stupidity. Bye
 
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Yes, working offshore is dangerous work, but far from the most dangerous. However, your safety assertions for saturation divers are simply unfounded. For example, 52,537 man-hours in saturation during 2010 were conducted in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea alone.

The DSYS overview shows that there have been relatively few personal injuries related to saturation diving in the last 25 years.

In 2010, two incidents, in the form of personal injuries, were reported. One of them was a soft tissue injury the diver sustained when the load struck the diver's calf in connection with installation of a protective cover. The other incident was a case of dehydration and a subsequent headache.

Norway: New Report on Diving Related Accidents Launched| Offshore Energy Today

To be fair, the death rate in the late 1960s and very early 1970s was pretty high in the North Sea. Some estimates were as high as 13% of active offshore divers. That may be where you get your false impression. However, the majority were surface supplied or deep bounce dive operations using small bell and chamber systems, not saturation. It was also a "wild west" period and long before purpose built DSVs (Diving Support Vessels). Saturation diving was a very new technology as was dynamic positioning that most DSVs depended on.

Another source of the misconception is media exaggeration for dramatic impact (ratings) and diver bravado. The more dangerous the perception the higher diver pay is likely to be. There is no doubt it is potentially dangerous work. You basically have the most complex diving operations ever conceived plus all the dangers of offshore heavy construction. The fact that there are so few injuries is a tribute to the diligence of crews and some interesting economic factors. DSVs that lease for hundreds of thousands of dollars a day will often go off contract with a diver casualty. An egregious failure will be punished by the entire loss of contracts than can run for years. This really is a case where safety pays.

Like the injuries above, the majority of diving injuries are industrial in nature. The most recent saturation deaths I recall are the divers on aboard the DSV Koosha 1 in the Persian Gulf. The vessel sank in bad weather losing 13 people including the 6 divers in sat.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/399964-six-divers-trapped-sea-bottom.html

Reports from divers I respect indicate that the operator and vessel and the diving contractor were not nearly comparable to those operating in the North Sea or US Gulf of Mexico.

As for depth, 900' isn't excessive technologically or physically. It is very expensive even by offshore oil standards. Nobody in their right mind would use sat divers for work that can be performed by ROVs. One atmosphere suits have not been all that successful because a diver is still at considerable risk and is often less capable than a ROV.
 
Yes, working offshore is dangerous work, but far from the most dangerous. However, your safety assertions for saturation divers are simply unfounded. For example, 52,537 man-hours in saturation during 2010 were conducted in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea alone.



Norway: New Report on Diving Related Accidents Launched| Offshore Energy Today

To be fair, the death rate in the late 1960s and very early 1970s was pretty high in the North Sea. Some estimates were as high as 13% of active offshore divers. That may be where you get your false impression. However, the majority were surface supplied or deep bounce dive operations using small bell and chamber systems, not saturation. It was also a “wild west” period and long before purpose built DSVs (Diving Support Vessels). Saturation diving was a very new technology as was dynamic positioning that most DSVs depended on.

Another source of the misconception is media exaggeration for dramatic impact (ratings) and diver bravado. The more dangerous the perception the higher diver pay is likely to be. There is no doubt it is potentially dangerous work. You basically have the most complex diving operations ever conceived plus all the dangers of offshore heavy construction. The fact that there are so few injuries is a tribute to the diligence of crews and some interesting economic factors. DSVs that lease for hundreds of thousands of dollars a day will often go off contract with a diver casualty. An egregious failure will be punished by the entire loss of contracts than can run for years. This really is a case where safety pays.

Like the injuries above, the majority of diving injuries are industrial in nature. The most recent saturation deaths I recall are the divers on aboard the DSV Koosha 1 in the Persian Gulf. The vessel sank in bad weather losing 13 people including the 6 divers in sat.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/399964-six-divers-trapped-sea-bottom.html

Reports from divers I respect indicate that the operator and vessel and the diving contractor were not nearly comparable to those operating in the North Sea or US Gulf of Mexico.

As for depth, 900' isn’t excessive technologically or physically. It is very expensive even by offshore oil standards. Nobody in their right mind would use sat divers for work that can be performed by ROVs. One atmosphere suits have not been all that successful because a diver is still at considerable risk and is often less capable than a ROV.

I personally don't view it as safe. If people want to risk their lives, that is their business, but when I see people advocating 900fsw body retrieval I get annoyed. That's dumb.
 
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