BY A LOT..and this isn't talking about or taking into account diving accidents, it's accidents on the vessel.
This is so outside the bell curve it should be ringing bells throughout the dive industry (see what I did there?)
But it isn't, and the fiction that a dive boat is just a taxi continues to be canon that is preventing recognition and action to improve safety.
I have been harping for years that the dive industry culture when it comes to vessel operation is significantly different than the culture of a professional mariner. While dive industry folks may get the requisite mariners license to operate a vessel for divers the culture of far too many from the dive industry is entirely different than when a professional mariner finds themself taking divers in many aspect of operation. Now, we have some stats that support my rantings.
In general commercial operations under SOLAS, for every 37.8 accidents on a vessel there is one death.
In diving live boards, for every accident there is 2 deaths.
Link to the Article of Live Aboard Safety
This is so outside the bell curve it should be ringing bells throughout the dive industry (see what I did there?)
But it isn't, and the fiction that a dive boat is just a taxi continues to be canon that is preventing recognition and action to improve safety.
I have been harping for years that the dive industry culture when it comes to vessel operation is significantly different than the culture of a professional mariner. While dive industry folks may get the requisite mariners license to operate a vessel for divers the culture of far too many from the dive industry is entirely different than when a professional mariner finds themself taking divers in many aspect of operation. Now, we have some stats that support my rantings.
In general commercial operations under SOLAS, for every 37.8 accidents on a vessel there is one death.
In diving live boards, for every accident there is 2 deaths.
Link to the Article of Live Aboard Safety