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Annual Meeting 2012 Seattle 29 to 31 August Page 2 PageP Hosted by the Divers Institute of Technology (DIT) Edition 19 January 2012 ANNUAL MEETING 2012 SEATTLE 29 TO 31 AUGUST Editors: Alan Bax have depths ranging from 12 to 45 feet of and Jill Williams The Divers Institute of Technology (DIT) lo- water. Deep dives are conducted on Lake Art Editor: cated in Seattle, Washington., recently (March Washington. Michael Norriss 2011) moved to a newly renovated, location The new classrooms are open and spacious on the north shore of Lake Union.. This new providing an excellent learning environment, International Diving location boasts a much larger footprint -- with lesson plans being delivered digitally. Schools Association with the flexibility to grow -- and showcases On the waterfront, each diving barge is 47 Faubourg de la significant upgrades to the Learning Resource outfitted to meet the demands of a specific Madeleine Center, student lounge, metals/welding shop objective of the course, from underwa- 56140 MALESTROIT and administrative offices. ter hydraulic tools and HAZMAT diving to FRANCE Established in 1968 by John Manlove, DIT pipeline projects and salvage operations. Phone: originally occupied Barge 41 on the ship ca- Underwater welding is accomplished in two +33 (0)2 9773 7261 nal in the Ballard neighbourhood of Seattle. In 5,500 gallon tanks, which are outfitted with e-mail: 1985 the barge sank, which forced the school ports to allow the students to perform their [email protected] to move to the location where it would remain work under the watchful eyes of instructors. web: for the next 23 years. This property proved This provides students immediate feedback www.idsaworl dwide.org to be an excellent choice for the school’s about their progress and has resulted in a program, but with the growth the school has significant improvement in course outcomes experienced in the past 10 years, moving was All surface-supplied dive training is con- inevitable. ducted in open water, giving students real Dedicated to the Right Tools and Resources world experience that can’t be duplicated According to DIT’s Executive Director, John in pools, tanks or quarries. The faculty and Paul Johnston, the new location was origi- curriculum are respected throughout the in- nally a ship’s chandlery and was completely dustry, and it shows: 92% of our graduates renovated and seismically updated four are working in the field. Our program trains years ago. The school occupies the first divers to excel in all aspects of both off- and second floors of the Northlake build- shore and inland diving. Students perform ing, located lakeside, and on the shoreline deep dives to 165 feet, and conduct both side, the metals program building houses the in-water and surface decompression. The metals/welding module, student lounge and curriculum includes underwater welding, Front Cover: provides room for growth. Diving barges and NDT, HazMat, hydraulic tools, and ROVs. La Tribuna Illustrata the M/V Response are moored on piers that DIT remains the only dive school to dive the 1934 Divers Institute of Technology and The Underwater Centre in Fort Wil- liam, Scotland, have formed an alliance that allows U. S. dive school graduates to complete special- ized training not available in the U.S The Naval City of Karlskrona Page 2 PageP Page 3 increasingly diversified. Scandinavians came to work in fishing and lumbering, blacks to work as railroad ABOUT THE CITY porters and waiters, and Japanese to operate truck gardens and hotels. There were significant commu- eattle lies on a narrow strip of land between the salt nities of Italians, Chinese, Jews, and Filipinos. The watersS of Puget Sound and the fresh waters of Lake International District, home to several Asian ethnic Washington. Beyond the waters lie two rugged moun- groups, was largely developed during this period. tain ranges, the Olympics to the west and the Cas- World War I transformed the city’s shipbuilding cades to the east. It is a city built on hills and around industry, which turned out 20 percent of the nation’s water. wartime ship tonnage. Seattle also gained a reputa- White settlers came to the Seattle area in 1851, tion for a boom-and-bust economy, and the twenties establishing a town and soon established a village near brought depressed conditions in shipbuilding and a protected deep water harbor. This village was soon the lumber trade. World War II sparked an economic named Seattle, honoring a Duwamish Indian leader rebound as shipyards flourished again, as did the named Sealth who had befriended the settlers. Boeing Company which increased its workforce more The new town’s principal economic support was than 1,200 percent annually during the war years. The Henry Yesler’s lumber mill at the foot of Mill Street (now war’s end, however, brought an economic slump to Yesler Way), built in 1853. In 1883 a rail connection the area that persisted until the middle 1950s when was completed by Northern Pacific, and the population Boeing introduced the 707 commercial jet airliner. increased accordingly and industries such as lumber, Since then the citiys’ population has remained coal, fishing, wholesale trade, shipbuilding, developed. fairly stable around the half-million mark, but industry Growth was slowed but not stopped by a devastat- has gradually developed and attracted firms such as ing fire in 1889; however as a result there were munici- Microsoft. pal improvements, including the widening of streets, a Seattle has always exhibited a spirit of optimism, professional fire department, reconstructed wharves, enterprise, and self-promotion. At one time this was and municipal water works. institutionalized as “the Seattle Spirit,” a movement All then remained quiet until 1897 when the dis- that enabled the city literally to move mountains by covery of gold along and near the Klondike River in washing down high hills to improve building sites, Canada’s Yukon Territory and in Alaska once again to connect Lake Washington and Puget Sound with made Seattle an instant boom town. locks and a canal, and to build the world’s largest During the early 1900s the city’s population became man-made island at the mouth of the Duwamish River The Programme ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The outline for the programme is: Accommodation Evening of Tuesday 28th Welcome drinks The Conference Hotel will be the Holiday Inn, 211 Dex- Wednesday 29th am&pm-Meeting followed ter Avenue North (+1 206 728 8123) and room rates by evening cruise. are in the order of 125 Euros or USD 160 per night. Thursday 30th am-Meeting, Attendance pm Visit to places of local interest The meeting will be open to members and non-mem- Evening – Association Dinner bers, the fee - which will cover attendance, transport Friday 31st. am–Meeting & Presentations. (hotel to Conference room), refreshment, lunches, and Meeting closes lunchtime the Association dinner– is expected to be in the order Information of €350 (USD450) per delegate. Full details will be posted on the website The Agenda as they are finalised and/or may be obtained The final Agenda will be circulated at the beginning of from the Administrator - [email protected] July, and items will be welcome from all members up The Naval City of Karlskrona to the end of June. Page 4 has decided that future conversion courses of this nature must be run by one school which may hire or rent all the necessary equipment from another school, but must be responsible for the whole course. In other words if a school approved to Level 2 wished its students to achieve level 3, it would have to negotiate a contract with a level 3 school to take its students through a conversion course from level 2 to 3, as FROM THE a level 2 school does not have approval to run any part of a level 3 course. Such CHAIRMAN a course must be run by Full Members accepted by IDSA to Level 3 It was reported at the annual meeting I would first like to welcome our new Af- in Karlskrona that a Full Member was filiate member Eprons Ltd from Latvia, and not teaching a Level 3 course to IDSA Reciprocal Member the ‘Alliance of Russian Standards. This has been investigated, Diving Schools’, from Moscow. and the Board has decided that the As discussed during our Karlskrona membership of the school is suspended meeting a major revision of the Operational until 1 March 2012 and that no more & Administrative Procedures is taking place Qualification cards will be issued to that and it is planned to circulate the first of the 5 parts in January for comment from all member until a revised programme had members. I think it very important that ALL been received which corrected the omis- members from their wealth of experience sions in the present course. If a revised respond within the time scale requested, programme is not been received by 1 so that the document reflects a truly repre- March Membership will be terminated. sentative view from all schools concerned In closing, may I wish all members a with Commercial Diver Training – even a successful 2012, quick E Mail ‘No comment’ helps assess the I look forward to keeping in touch response. The intention is to circulate the over the coming months and to meeting complete revision for approval at our next many of you in Seattle meeting in Seattle. During the last year we have experi- mented with a course combining the facili- ties of two schools - CEDIFOP in Palermo approved to Level 2, and NYD in Oslo LEO LAGARDE approved to level 3. The outcome of this pilot course is that although the students achieved the Level 3 Standard, the Board ABOUT IDSA The Association is concerned with all divers - Offshore, Inshore and Inland, One of the main thrusts is towards International Diver and has established International Diver Training Standards based on Certification in order to bring together the various Nation- the consensus view of its many members.
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