Dive Safety

[shrootee]

Do you wish you could predict calling off a dive, before the dive?
The Dive Safety questionnaire aims to identify and document reasons for unforeseen mishaps, with a special emphasis on penetration diving.
Multiple dangers face divers, certified or not, as they delve into the different depths of pressure. In penetration diving, divers experience added dangers of darkness, strong currents and a general lack of direction. As certified divers ourselves, we wished to conduct a survey of divers who have been in compromising situations, while analysing the reasons for the same. A simple questionnaire, this won’t take more than a minute.
Please help us out!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1---7z-_CoSQVVZo81t1JYGaSeqilJhofMUS8gTme56g/viewform

 

[nolatom]

You might want to add "Rescue Diver" to the list of certifications as it's common to most certifying agencies.

And you've left out "diver error" as a possible cause for an accident. Nor does your survey differentiate divers who do penetration dives without certification from those who are certified. I'm not certified so I don't do penetration dives aside from short swim-throughs such as in a ship's wheelhouse with good visibility and many openings.

 

[TSandM]

Yes, I would agree, the questionnaire is flawed through perhaps a lack of information on the part of the people who created it.

Many people who DO penetration dives are certified as technical or cave divers, an option not given on the list. "Accident", in scuba terms, is generally used to refer to a fatality, so one doesn't usually get people self-reporting as to causes

 

[DCBC]

Often you can predict calling off a dive before it begins. Hazardous environments kill divers. The diver must be sufficiently trained, experienced and fit to undertake the dive planned (depth, penetration, or environment). Divers die because they're not prepared for the diving conditions present or reasonably predicted to be present (temperature, waves, surf, current) at the dive site.