The official magazine of the Canadian Association of CADC Diving Contractors Magazine Summer 2017

Bill C-45 Keeps Your Head Above Water: Protecting and the Client in Inside: Underwater Going Nuclear: Remaining Operations Calm, Practical and Competent

Choosing a Diving Company

CADC Initiates Self-Audit Program

Canada Post Publications Agreement Number 40609661 contents Up Front 4 A Message from the President of the CADC 5 Notes from the Executive Director of the CADC

CADC Magazine 6 Why You Should Be a Part of the Published for: CADC The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 7 Become a Member 6382 Coachford Way Mississauga, Ontario L5N 3V8 Doug Elsey, P.Eng., Executive Director A CLOSER LOOK Phone: (905) 542-7410 | Fax: (905) 567-6703 [email protected] 9 Liability on the Job Site: Who’s in www.cadc.ca the Line of Fire? Printed by: Matrix Group Publishing Inc. 309 Youville Street Feature STORIES Winnipeg, MB R2H 2S9 13 Going Nuclear: Diving in a Toll-free: (866) 999-1299 Radioactive Environment Toll-free fax: (866) 244-2544 [email protected] 15 Hiring the www.matrixgroupinc.net Contractor: The Bottom Line President & CEO Jack Andress CADC MEMBER PROJECT Operations Manager SPOTLIGHTS Shoshana Weinberg [email protected] 19 Advanced Subsea Services: Publishers Inspecting the North Surrey Jessica Potter Interceptor Sanitary Sewer Peter Schulz 21 Canadian Working Divers Editor-in-Chief Institute: Celebrating 25 Years of Shannon Savory [email protected] Training Divers Senior Editor Alexandra Walld IMAGES OF INNOVATION [email protected] 23 Our Members at Work Finance/Administration Pat Andress, Nathan Redekop, Lloyd Weinberg [email protected] News Director of Circulation & Distribution 25 CADC Initiates Phase 1 of Diving Lloyd Weinberg Safety Self-Audit Program [email protected] 27 Diver’s Safety: Evaluating CSA Sales Manager – Winnipeg Dive Standards Neil Gottfred 29 CADC Membership Listings Sales Manager – Hamilton Jeff Cash 2017 Sales Team Leader Colleen Bell 30 Buyer’s Guide Matrix Group Publishing Inc. Account Executives Andrew Lee, Bonnie Petrovsky, Brian MacIntyre, Cameron Mills, Cheryl Klassen, Chris Smith, Courtney Murphy, David MacDonald, Frank Kenyeres, Jim Hamilton, Kallie Herod, Matt Potts, Renée Kent, Rob Gibson, Sandra Kirby, Tanina Di Piazza Advertising Design James Robinson Layout & Design ON THE COVER: This issue’s cover features Kayti Taylor Dave Dalzell floating on the surface at the Naval Base in Victoria, BC, for the Base’s ©2017 Matrix Group Publishing Inc. All rights reserved. Contents may not be reproduced by any means, in whole or in part, without new pier installation. PHOTO CREDIT: Ken the prior written permission of the publisher. The opinions Babineau / Freelancer at Fraser Burrard expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of Matrix Diving Ltd. Group Publishing Inc. Printed in Canada.

The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 3 up front A Message from the President of the CADC

All stop! The 2017 diving season, the standards we work so hard for. They by all reports, promises to be strong in simply make our industry safer. most Canadian regions. The timing for Having sat as a second-term this issue of CADC Magazine could not president for the CADC, I can attest be better, as the focus is all about taking that this position becomes a focal point care of the divers at the end of the hose when health and safety issues arise and working topside. within our industry. Over the past few The Canadian Association of Diving weeks, I worked with a BC diver who Contractors (CADC) has provided to may well be experiencing the ill effects the industry a guideline for of illness (DCI). The compliance to the CSA Z275.2 Diving unfortunate side of the story is that upon Standards (available on the website) surfacing, the diver was manifesting signs to assess your diving operation. As and symptoms of DCI and the supervisor a condition of membership, CADC on-site made a decision not to attend members comply with these standards to the health and safety concerns of the as a minimum. Anyone—not just diver. Our divers deserve better than members—involved in the industry are what happened to this young man. encouraged to follow them. We all need to continue to press for With a humble approach to the the CSA Standards to be provincially process, it would be hard to believe accepted across Canada. Harmonization that we all couldn’t do something to of the standards will unequivocally make improve our operations and work further our industry safer—for the diver, for the to ensure we are in full compliance with contractor and for the client! Vern Johnston, CADC President PHOTO CREDIT: Simon Leroy.

4 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 up front Notes from the Executive Director of the CADC

“There are old divers, and there are bold divers, but there are very few old, bold divers.”

our industry. As educated as the diving deal with challenges, like working in a industry is about safety, there are still flowing sanitary sewer deemed a Hazmat holdouts who cut safety to lower costs environment not suitable for human to win a bid. Clients—many ignorant occupancy. of legislated safety standards and Diver education and training has

PHOTO CREDIT: D. Geddes. guidelines—only see money and hire been conducted at the Canadian Doug Elsey, P.Eng. CADC Executive Director the lowest bidder, figuring if something Working Divers Institute (CWDI) facility happens during a dive operation, it is the in Chapleau, ON for the last 25 years. and the contractor’s problem. Nothing could be Well-known for its approach to training supply of underwater services is a further from the reality of who is at fault if techniques, Gord Hay fills us in on what’s serious business. Things have come there is an accident. Bill C-45 exists. new at CWDI. A tough boot camp for a long way, from “the good ol’ days” In Canada, Bill C-45 is a legal divers comes to mind! This school is hardhat diver, to the introduction requirement about protecting the unique and puts out damn good people! of SCUBA in commercial operations, worker. No doubt, our industry has its This issue also talks about guidelines to lightweight gear, to mixed gas, inherent , which are mitigated by for hiring the professional diving to offshore gear. Lots of changes analysis of stakeholders in the project. contractor—all diving contractors and evolution. Of course, there was Everyone from diver to diver supervisor are not alike. Doing your homework (sometimes, still is) the day of surface to the client is involved. What happens on who you hire can mitigate serious supplied diving with a two-man dive if it is ignored? In many cases, the client issues if something goes wrong. Bill C-45 crew! may not know the risks involved and violations are serious. Compliance to CSA One incident (I’d like to forget, circa see only the lowest bid. Or they ignore Dive Standards is a good first step. the 1970s) was when I received a call the risks. Dave Geddes enlightens us As of January 1, 2017, CADC initiated from the dive site, where the diver about the statutes in Bill C-45 and the the first phase of its Diving Safety Self- tender, out of breath, reported his diver, implications of ignoring the law. It is Audit Program, which is based on whom he was tending from shore, had about the seriousness of not protecting CSA diving standards recognized as his hose trapped under a pile he had the worker, deliberately or by ignorance. one of the best minimal diving safety just finished cutting off. No standby It is a criminal offence with far-reaching standards available nationally and diver. No cell phone (he called from a implications, including imprisonment, for internationally. Read what it is all about. pay phone!), and I was 45 minutes away, a client and all involved in the operation. This issue will be distributed at the in the office. How was he going to get Protecting the diver in hazardous annual general meeting of the CSA the diver ashore, as the compressor was conditions includes special procedures Standards / Dive Committees in Halifax in low on fuel? Their was to move for diving in contaminated environments June. the compressor closer to shore to give such as nuclear plants. Jérôme Dion the diver more slack. The diver pulled in of the Mistras Group outlines the Editor’s note: As we go to press (June 2017), we more hose and surfaced on the far side procedures for diving in these conditions. learn the Nova Scotia Ministry of Labour has laid of the pile pinning his hose, dumped his Another contaminated environment is charges against a diving company involved in the helmet after removing his harness points, the topic of our project spotlight, which death of diver Luke Seabrook in July 2015. Will and swam ashore! Doing that was “legal” focuses on the team at Advanced Subsea there be convictions? How far does Bill C-45 go in at the time! In Canada, incidents like this Services and its work on the North determining responsibility of those involved? We fueled the upgrading of the CSA Dive Surrey Interceptor Sanitary Sewers. Learn will see. Diving is serious business. Be safe. Dive safe. Standards. about this project, including how they Protect your workers. It’s the law. The evolution of these CSA Dive Standards is covered by Ian Rodd, chairperson of the main technical Exceeding Expectations committee for the CSA Z275 Diving This January, the CADC launched the first phase of Standards. We have come a long way— its Diving Safety Self-Audit Program. Flip to page 25 and have further to go. to learn more about the program, which is based on As far as we have progressed, we current CSA diving standards. continually hear of safety violations in

The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 5 up front Why You Should Be a Part of the CADC Check out our members at www.CADC.CA/members “CADC is the glue that standards and regulations for • The members’ mail-list server that binds the diving community across commercial diving across Canada, allows you to instantly contact ALL Canada,” says Doug Elsey, Executive the industry has become a much of the members when you need Director of the CADC. safer place. advice, gear, personnel, etc. CADC was formed in 1982 As a member, you are adding • Diving insurances exclusively for because regulators and government to the voice that is the CADC, CADC members—backed by Lloyd’s legislators did not and do not effectively allowing the industry to Brokers and others who know the want to talk to individuals—they be heard, especially when it comes diving industry. want to talk to organized groups to lowering insurance rates. • Reduced rates on gear from our representing the industry. The Some of the benefits CADC associate members. safety standards that govern your membership offers are: • This very magazine, with articles on operations today are a result of past • Constant communications on companies, jobs, safety, etc., to keep CADC members doing their job in jobs coming up that you may you informed. “getting it right” so that we have a be interested in bidding on. This Not everyone can join CADC. Those safe and workable industry today. is done weekly or biweekly as members who apply have to agree AND Safety, according to Elsey, is one we send out tender information demonstrate that they operate in a safe of the most important issues in an across Canada. working environment. One cannot join industry that can be both dangerous • Information available on our by simply filling in the form—you have and physically demanding. The website (www.CADC.ca) and the to have a demonstrated level of safety CADC acts as a unifying body, able CADC-sponsored websites and competence in operations to CSA to communicate effectively across www.UnderwaterINDUSTRY.com Standards 275.2 (Operations) and CSA Canada and beyond. The CADC acts and UnderwaterJOB.com. 275.4 (Competency). as a watchdog for the industry and • The JOBS website (www. For more information, please check keeps a constant eye on regulations UnderwaterJOBS.com), where out our website at www.cadc.ca or and standards. Because of their you can post jobs and look for e-mail: [email protected]. We look forward PHOTO CREDIT: Doug Elsey/ www.DougElsey.com. diligence in monitoring these qualified people. to hearing from you!

6 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 Page 1 of 2 pages – both pages must be completed for application renewal

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Mission statement: “The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors (CADC) will represent its members’ common interests with regards to safety and environmental standards, client satisfaction, and government intervention within our industry. The CADC will actively promote the use of its members and will supply its members with information and tools to ensure their competence and improve their performance and safety.” a closer look By Dave Geddes, D. W. Geddes & Associates Inc. PHOTO CREDIT: Doug Elsey / www.DougElsey.com. Liability on the Job Site:Who’s in the Line of Fire? anadian Occupational Health & Safety This is something the Canadian Association of (OHS) laws are based on the Internal Diving Contractors is attempting to correct with the Responsibility System. Under this system, introduction of the “One Country, One Standard” all workplace stakeholders, from senior initiative. management to the deckhand, are In seven of Canada’s provinces and territories, the required to play a part in ensuring health duties of supervisory personnel are specifically addressed. andC safety at the workplace. Therefore, those—including These include, but are not limited to: supervisors—who fail to meet the requirements of OHS laws • Ensuring the health and safety of the workers under may be held responsible and are liable to prosecution. It is supervision; crucial that owners, employers, supervisors and workers are • Complying with all applicable OHS laws and ensuring aware of their responsibilities on the worksite. workers do the same; As the specific responsibilities of management and • Ensuring all workers are wearing appropriate personal supervisors vary from one province or territory to another, protective equipment; it is difficult to come up with a comprehensive list that will • Informing workers of any known or reasonably directly itemize the responsibilities of the those responsible foreseeable health and safety in the area they for the performance of the work. This is made increasingly are working; and more difficult in Canada, with each province or territory • When required, giving written directions on measures having its own OHS regulation. However, guidance to the to be taken to protect their safety. specific duties of the owners, employers, supervisors and These duties may be further enhanced by referencing workers may be found by referring to the applicable OHS applicable sections in regulations pertaining to diving regulation and being aware of the requirements of Bill C-45. operations or the Canadian Standards Association The lack of harmonization of OHS laws directly (CSA) diving standards. Some of the duties cited in the impacts the provincial or territory . regulations and CSA standards include: continued on page 10

The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 9 a closer look

continued from page 9 for each of these duties. Although • A person who has charge of a • Ensuring operation and contingency many of the duties specified in workplace or authority over another plans are developed and in-place; applicable diving regulations or worker; • Ensuring personnel are competent standards may be focused toward • A worker who has one or more and fit to work; the dive supervisor, it is also plain workers under his or her control or • Ensuring all is to see that others, including owners supervision; or examined by a competent person; and employers, may also hold a • A person who is authorized by an • Appointing in writing a competent supervisory role. employer to oversee or direct the ; and Listed below are a few examples work of workers. • Ensuring all necessary equipment of the definition of “supervisor” in a It should be noted that these is provided and in good operating number of OHS laws: definitions are based on function rather condition. • A person who instructs, directs, than title. Consequently, personnel have It therefore becomes evident we and controls workers in the been charged under the OHS Law, even must determine who is the “supervisor” performance of their duties; though they did not hold the title of “supervisor.” It should be obvious that in a court of law, they may be required to look at who had the control and responsibility of the work or task, rather than his or her title, to determine who had the responsibility or authority for the work. Examples of supervisory authority include: • Hire and fire; • Promotion and discipline; • Give awards or bonuses; • Schedule work; • Decide make-up of the crew; • Decide which equipment to use; • Discuss safety issues with workers; • Discuss details of the job with workers; • Deal with worker complaints; • Stop work if arise; • Grant workers vacation and leave of absence; and • Determine how workers are paid. In the event the applicable OHS Law does not assign duties to the supervisor or define the position of supervisor, you will have to determine if the responsibilities are “implied” in another definition. For example, “employer.” Do the duties assigned or assumed fall into this definition? Or do the responsibilities of the employer also include those of one who could be the supervisor? The implied responsibilities may be used in prosecuting a supervisor who fails to meet the requirements of the OHS Law. Remember, in addition to the OHS Law, the commercial diving industry also relies on specific diving regulations and or CSA Standards that also cite supervisor responsibilities and competencies. In March 2004, the Canadian government introduced Bill C-45. The Bill

10 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 added Section 217.1 to the Criminal Code • Create rules for establishing criminal • For individuals, up to $25,000.00 or up which reads: liability to organizations for the acts of to 12 months’ imprisonment; and “217.1 Everyone who their representatives; • Corporations, up to $500,000.00 per undertakes, or has the authority, • Establish a legal duty for all persons charge. to direct how another person does “directing the work of others” to take Contraventions to the Criminal Code work or performs a task is under a reasonable steps to ensure the safety may result in imprisonment or fines in legal duty to take reasonable steps of workers and the public; excess of $100,000.00. to prevent bodily harm to that • Set out the factors that courts Supervisors, including employers, person, or any other person, arising must consider when sentencing an have both an ethical and legal from that work or task.” organization; and responsibility to ensure the health and Bill C-45 also added Sections 22.1 • Provide optional conditions of safety of their workers around the dive and 22.2 to the Criminal Code, imposing probation that a court may impose on operation. This responsibility should criminal liability on organizations and its an organization. not be underestimated or taken lightly. representatives for negligence (22.1) and Although primarily used in cases of It is imperative that all parties know other offences (22.2). serious violations of OHS Law, the use of their responsibilities and practice due This Bill was introduced following the provisions of Bill C-45 are becoming diligence in providing this protection. the Westray coal mining disaster, where more common. The Bill can, and will, Failure to comply with the spirit of intent despite numerous concern over safety, hold those responsible for the health and of Bill C-45 to protect the safety of the management did very little to correct safety of the workers accountable for worker can lead to criminal prosecution, these issues. Following the incident, the infringements of the law. including imprisonment. It is a very court was unable to convict management To summarize, the workers are serious offence. of the mining operation for failure to protected by two distinct laws, the address the safety concerns raised. Occupational & Safety Law and the Dave Geddes is a CADC director and chair of the A Royal Commission investigated Criminal Code. Failure to comply with CSA sub-committee for the Competency Standard the accident, and one of the many these Laws may result in financial for Diving Operations, Clinical Chamber Operators recommendations made lead to the penalties or imprisonment. For example, and ROV Personnel. He owns and operates D. W. introduction of Bill C-45. in Ontario, the penalties under the Geddes & Associates Inc., a consulting company for The intent of Bill C-45 is to: Occupational Health & Safety Act are: diving and hyperbaric operations.

The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 11 12 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 By Jérôme Dion, Project Manager, feature Diving Division, Mistras Services Inc.

Going Nuclear: Diving in a Radioactive Environment

istras Services Concepts of radiation dose and dose rates Specific procedures were developed for teamed with are important to understand and bear in dressing and undressing divers, underwater Underwater mind at the basis of safety and prevention in vacuum cleaning, dive emergency, Engineering a nuclear environment. scaffolding, and installation sequence. Services to install Typical nuclear sector workers get Procedures were tested off-site and on-site a waterproofing annual doses of 100 to 500 mrem. Canadian and tweaked until they were satisfactory to membraneM in the spent fuel storage pool of a regulation allows 5,000 mrem per year. the client representatives. nuclear power plant. Annual medical diagnostics represent a 30 Above water, personnel dose monitors The work was simple. A series of to 100 mrem dose, and the annual natural and dose rate detectors were worn membrane panels to install on the walls dose Canadians receive is 250 mrem. Project depending on zones. Below water, divers using anchored frames. Counter-plates at planners expected divers to get doses up to were dose-rate monitored in real-time and panel overlays. Epoxy joint sealing on the 500 mrem. wore delayed dose detectors on their hands, floor. Behind the membrane, draining fabric Aside from the spent fuel in the pool, feet and head. and pump wells were to be installed. sources workers could be exposed to “hot Above and below water, spatial Due to nuclear environment constraints, spots” with surface contamination and organization with clean, transfer and the project challenge resided in the moving airborne or underwater particles. contaminated areas were set up. Together planning, preparation, training, operational One could suffer various acute or long-term with rules about work clothes, food and procedures, safety measures, monitoring, effects, based on an excess dose received, drinks prohibition, hot spot dose rate reporting, and safety event downtime. These which could be prevented by strictly warning panels, no water contact allowed, had tremendous influence on the dive time following procedures. and maximizing work distances from to work time ratio. radioactive sources, this prevented exposure, Planning self-contamination and the spread of Training Medical follow up included weekly radioactive material from top-side into diver A week training allowed the team personnel dose reporting from various suits, out of the pool with divers, and away to acquire the safety basics in a nuclear sensors that were worn, along with pre-job, from the work area. environment, get mobility to the work weekly, and post job general contamination zone without supervision, and learn how to scans. Realization prevent the spread of radioactive material. Dive equipment selection, maintenance, Meetings, debriefing, event-specific Radiation cannot be seen or smelled, and upgrade, adaptation and testing were reporting, documenting activities, constant the different types of radioactive particles performed off-site. This was of upmost watch from the Canadian Nuclear Safety have specific penetration power, from importance for the helmets. Of the four Commission, and maintaining objects’ in- being stopped at the skin surface to being models tested, Desco showed the best and out-logs were the daily load. absorbed by concrete. Only sensors can performance, KMSL17B proved good for the Preliminary vacuum cleaning and detect radiation, measured in rem units, or stand-by diver, and KMSL37 and 17K could radioprotection mapping of the work area milli-rem (mrem). not prevent slight water intrusions. continued on page 14

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were to be completed to ensure underwater safety. A safety scaffold cage ensured the minimum safe working distance of 1.8 metres between divers and the spent fuel racks, providing 18-fold, half-cuts of this radioactive material’s mortal dose rate. Moving and modifying CanStor tables present in the pool were peripheral works. Precision was of utmost importance due to the critical function of this equipment used to transfer the spent fuel bundles from wet to dry storage. These constraints were important to ensure personnel safety. They are, however, weighing heavy on dive time compared to a conventional environment. Daily, we achieved six to seven-and-a-half hours of diving, with one to two divers, for 12 working hours.

Incidents Over eight months with four dives each day and a total of 1,200 dive hours and 16,750 worked hours, 13 incidents were documented, most of which were associated with water ingress. A few drops to a puddle in the helmet, wet sensation during or observed after diving, defective original parts, and worn suits were the main causes. These become serious events in a nuclear environment that must be documented, reported, root-cause- analyzed, and solved with a lesson learned. Other incidents included one hand injury with a rotating tool, one suit puncture from a projected rotating brush hair, and one helmet that was over because too many hands were helping. Beyond the initial emergency response of terminating a dive, providing , and checking for contamination, it was crucial to have control over incident causes, avoid similar incidents, and reduce incident rates, as the nuclear plant responds to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which can cancel the project based on incident records. One safety distance barrier transgression also occurred. However, in the end, none of these events were associated with radioactive or high dose contamination. Our personnel experienced a lower cumulative dose than expected and less radioactive contamination from surface work than plant operation personnel did.

Jérôme Dion is project manager of the diving division at Mistras Services Inc.

14 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 feature Hiring the Professional Diving Contractor: The Bottom Line Employing the right underwater contractor can reduce civil and criminal liability exposure in case of accidents and affect your bottom line. Here’s what you need to know. By the Canadian Association of Diving Contractors

mploying an underwater contractor ignorant of Diving Contractors (CADC) participate in these and other of current safety standards and regulations can activities daily. In searching for a qualified underwater services expose the employer to serious (and expensive) operator, are all created equal? Do they operate equally? civil and criminal liability in case of an accident. Are you—as an employer—protected from liability should Bill C-45 of the Criminal Code of Canada states something go wrong? What standards and regulations are it is the legal duty of employers and those currently in place? directingE work to take reasonable measures to protect employee The closest thing to a common or nationally-recognized and public safety. If this duty is disregarded and bodily harm or diving standard cited in regulations is the Canadian Standards death results, an organization could be charged with criminal Association’s (CSA) 275 group of Diving Standards. The CSA negligence. Is this a risk you and your company are willing to take? standards are recognized as preferred industry practice by To educate one’s self on employing a commercial diving the Federal Government’s Human Resources & Development contractor, pick up the yellow pages or do an online search for Canada, the National Energy Board of Canada and by all commercial diving companies. You will see it’s a competitive 10 provincial labour regulators. Regulatory compliance for business—companies offering underwater services, from occupational safety is the responsibility of each province and underwater inspections or repairs inshore, to full-blown deep territory. There are jurisdictional overlaps, like Labour Canada diving in hundreds of metres of water in the offshore. Add having jurisdiction over federal government employees, and to this the clearance of the National Energy Board of Canada being responsible for the unexploded ordinance offshore. underwater, and you Not all provinces enforce the same regulations. Although soon get the idea that they may not be law, many provinces that don’t have diving special skills and safety regulations cite the various CSA Dive Standards in their requirements are occupational health legislation. Although the standard may not needed to undertake be law, if a province, territory or federal government refers to the the work. standard in legislation, the standard does, in fact, become law. Independent It can—and has been used to—prosecute clients, operators or diving companies supervisors if standards are not met. and members of the The CSA Diving standards were formulated by stakeholders Canadian Association in the Canadian underwater industry, with input from educators,

RESPONSIBILITIES Diving Contractor Client • Ensure that risk assessments have been performed. • The scope of work has been clearly defined and • The area in which work is being carried out is safe and suitable. agreed to by the diving contractor. • All personnel representing the diving contractor are appropriately qualified and certified. • Agreement has been made to provide facilities and • All equipment used by the diving contractor is in good working order and, where all reasonable support in the event of an emergency. applicable, is certified. • Consider all potential hazards that are under their • The actual work has been assessed and a suitable plan of action has been prepared control and inform the diving contractor of these. (including lock-outs) for the work to be carried out safely, effectively and efficiently. • Take steps to remove or reduce potential hazards • Any site-specific safety and familiarization training is provided to all personnel on the as is feasible. dive crew. • Ensure that sufficient time and facilities are made • Project records, including dive logs, , and all relevant details of the project available to the diving contractor to carry out hazard are recorded properly. analysis and lock-out procedures where applicable. • Adequate arrangements exist for first aid and medical treatment of personnel. • All relevant regulations are complied with.

The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 15 Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Diving Standards feature CSA Z275.2 Occupational Safety Code for Diving refers to: Operations: regulators and industry users across It is law that we have a responsibility • Operational Requirements. Canada. They are reviewed annually to ensure the safety of others. We need • Minimum Crew Size. and updated every five years. to be diligent in planning and executing • Restrictions on Scuba. To the employer, the most objectives. The responsibility is not • Equipment Requirements. important standards are the CSA diminished by perceived extent of • Supervision. 275.2 Occupational Safety Code for apparent risk. When things go wrong • Paperwork. • Etc. Diving Operations and the CSA 275.4 on a dive, consequences can be swift Standard on Diving Competency. and severe. Making the right choices CSA Z275.4 Diver and Dive Crew Competency: The CSA 275.2 Occupational Safety when employing diving services is the refers to: • The competency required for all diving personnel. Code for Diving Operations concerns responsibility of the employer and may itself with operational diving safety require managers to reassess current CSA Z275.1 Chamber Standards: standards—including minimum crew occupational health and safety programs refers to: • The requirements of hyperbaric sizes, restrictions on the use of scuba to ensure compliance with regulatory facilities or decompression chambers. in diving operations and equipment, requirements. CSA Z275.6 Unexploded explosive ordnance (UXO) and supervision and medical requirements. refers to: munitions diving. It is important to realize these are Who certifies to the CSA standards? CSA Z180.1 Compressed Air Systems: minimum requirements for safe diving Provincially, certification can be refers to: • Minimum allowable limits of operations and are not all-inclusive. provided by the regulatory authority contaminates in breathing air. The CSA 275.4 Standard on Diving or an authorized representative in • Minimum compressor requirements. Competency concerns itself with the province. Nationally, the federally the competency of the underwater registered, not-for-profit Diver of the Canadian Standards Association worker and support personnel. This Certification Board of Canada (DCBC) is (CSA) Competency Standard for Diving also is a minimum requirement for currently the only recognized body that Operations (CSA standard Z 275.4). all personnel in a diving operation, certifies offshore and inshore commercial The DCBC also accredits commercial meant to enhance the safety of the divers throughout Canada. The DCBC organizations which train operation. It provides designations for certification is issued to commercial to the competency levels described in the competency in the occupational diving diving personnel who meet competency CSA Standard Z275.4. Such accredited field. requirements of the appropriate section organizations can assess commercial

16 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 divers with experience but little or no high standards in business practices is a contractor will translate into cost formal training. Eight provinces and two good starting point. savings. The true bottom line in territories cite the CSA Z 275.4 standard Hiring a member company of the safety, performance and compliance in their regulations. Those provinces CADC does not guarantee safety or high to recognized industry practices and recognize DCBC certificates as reliable performance; there are many variables in regulations is measured by the owner evidence that the holder is competent to —each company has its exercising due diligence in the selection the CSA 275.4 competency levels. own high standard in operations above of the contractor. Doing the homework the minimum requirement. It’s up to the is recognition of the clients’ concern Who complies with the CSA standards? owner to make decisions as to who they for worker safety and is just plain smart In many provinces, the CSA diving should hire—and determine what the business. Considering a CADC member standards and its derivatives are law. true price of hiring a low bidder or non- company is a good start. Legally, failure to follow regulations and professional company is. For additional information or a full standards and to protect the underwater Incidents and accidents cost money. list of diving contractors, please go to worker can result in civil and criminal Correctly choosing a professional www.cadc.ca. charges. When one considers the legal requirements for diving operations in Canada—and the intensive training and certification required by those in the industry—picking up the yellow pages and choosing a diving contractor at random is akin to playing Russian Roulette with your business or organization at the end of the barrel. Due diligence to make sure the diving contractor is in compliance and is cognisant of the occupational health and safety laws and standards within the province protects both the owner and the underwater worker. Members of the CADC are required— once accepted into membership—to pledge and sign-off on the following mandatory CADC membership requirement: “As a CADC member, the company pledges to foster safety in all areas of activity; to comply with all regulations as set out by the authority having jurisdiction or—in the absence of regulations—to observe minimum standards as identified in current CSA Z275.2 Occupational Safety Code for Diving Operations + CSA Z275.4 Competency Standard for Diving Operations and Safety upgrades to the standards and amendments as approved by the Board of Directors and to maintain high standards with regard to business ethics, employee relations, and the public image of the underwater industry.” When considering who does the underwater work, considering the employment of a professional diving services company that has earned membership in CADC and has pledged to observe safety standards and maintain

The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 17 18 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 CADC member project spotlight By Paul Adair Advanced Subsea Services: Inspecting the North Surrey Interceptor Sanitary Sewer

n British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, Sidney-based Advanced Subsea Services Ltd. has carved for itself a well- deserved reputation as one of Canada’s most innovative and resourceful commercial diving companies. Primarily operating along Canada’s west coast and central Arctic, the company serves a wide variety of clients, such as the Oremote municipalities of the far north, the natural resources sector, the Canadian Navy, hydro-electric facilities, and the oil and gas sector. Because of its knowledge, expertise, and dedication to safety, Advanced Subsea Services was selected last year to complete the city of Surrey’s North Surrey Interceptor Sanitary Sewer pipe project, which tasked the company with inspecting the inside conditions of a large 9,500-metre sewer pipe and to identify any cracks and areas of concern along the concrete bottom, sides, and crown of the pipe. A total of 112 entries will need to be calculated in order to complete the inspections. There are numerous and obvious challenges associated with working The Advanced Subsea Services team dresses a diver in Hazmat gear. inside a flowing sanitary sewer that is deemed to be a Hazmat environment not suitable for human occupancy. The pipe’s diameter ranges from three to eight feet and the distance between manholes along the section that is being inspected is up to 500 feet. Entry into the space is quite small and, once inside, the diver will need to overcome the claustrophobic conditions and be comfortable performing in an enclosed space, while also appreciating the risks associated with working underground. The sewage levels inside the pipe can rise and fall, creating a fully- or partially-filled space, and the equipment being used tends to be cumbersome, particularly when the murky water levels drop. But, regardless of water level, there remains a constant flow of brackish, smelly water pushing up against the diver in the pipe, placing considerable drag on the umbilical. “But the biggest challenge for us in this project was the development of the working and safety procedures,” says Murray Mackay, general manager at Advanced Subsea Services Ltd. “The level of accuracy, in regard to documentation and safety, is the most I’ve encountered since I began working in the offshore oil and gas sector. It was often difficult to draw a clear line between diving in a hazardous environment and confined space classification. As a result, several months were used up in the development of documentation and then submitting it for review, making changes where required.” Advanced Subsea Services employs four to seven divers for regular scheduled maintenance work relating to water control structures, submarine outfall pipes, and storm and sanitary sewer inspections and repairs. The company strictly follows Work Safe B.C. regulations and CSA guidelines to maintain its excellent safety rating and track record, with all staff members meeting or exceeding current training and education requirements. In most cases, all Advanced Subsea Services’ divers are fully- continued on page 20 An Advanced Subsea Services diver enters the manhole.

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continued from page 19 pressure washer to decontaminate divers decontamination techniques. Divers trained in the personal protective and life and equipment once out of the pipe. are also fully trained in the use of gas support equipment that can easily cross “Training and experience with this monitors, rescue winches, back-up rope from wet to dry as the type of situation type of equipment naturally leads to the rescue techniques, hard-wire throat mic and environmental conditions change. progression of confined space training and earphone communications, National Some of the equipment being and Hazmat work for our teams,” says Institute for Occupational Safety and used in the completion of this project Mackay. “That being said, working in a Health standards for confined space work, includes Whites/Aqualung Hazmat Hazmat environment still requires a site- and identifying hazards. with a neck-dam mated to a specific review and the development of Kirby Morgan SL17K helmet; dry gloves procedures that will inform workers of Advanced Subsea Services Ltd. Is dedicated to the with a puncture resistant over-glove the hazards, risks, and safety guidelines highest standards of technical proficiency, marine for sharps and steel-toed over-boots; a that need to be followed.” safety, environmental awareness and professionalism. 600-foot twisted umbilical with video, Advanced Subsea Services’ divers The company provides services to the civil and communications, and lighting; rescue are Board of Canada offshore marine industries, and its global experience winches, and; harnesses and SCUBA surface-supply certified, have undergone comes from working offshore in diverse environments packs for the surface crew. There are also basic confined space awareness and such as Hibernia, Sable Island, Russia, the Caspian Sea, two independent air supplies, portable confined space rescue training, and China, India, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, the Straits of fresh water tanks, pumps, and a heated have training in and Malacca and the South China Sea.

20 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 CADC member project spotlight Canadian Working Divers Institute: Celebrating 25 Years of Training Divers Celebrating a Change By Gord Hay, Diving Safety Specialist, Canadian Working in Ownership Divers Institute John Pegg, Offshore Diving Supervisor

anadian Working “Every Beginner Poses the Potential to be an Expert” Divers Institute (CWDI) John was raised on a family farm near Rondeau Park, ON and was inspired to is celebrating a change become a commercial diver in the late 1970s, when he would watch the Consumers of ownership and Gas company divers work in the Lake Erie gasfield, which worked out of the Erieau 25 years of training Harbour. divers to international John graduated from Seneca College’s Underwater Skills program in 1990-1991 and standards.C Over the years, CWDI has run worked for several Ontario-based companies, like Can-Dive Ltd., Forand Marine and 44 unrestricted surface-supplied courses Aquatic Sciences around Ontario as a construction diver. A few years later, he was hired with over 500 graduates worldwide and by Pembina Resources and worked for 22 years as a Lake Erie gasfield diver/ diving has trained divers from around the globe, supervisor. including countries like Turkey, Israel, In 2000, he attended Underwater Centre-Tasmania and obtained his Closed Bell Bermuda, Italy, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Certification and IMCA Offshore Supervisor Certification. John Japan, India, Spain, Switzerland, Panama, worked as saturation / air diver in East Coast Canada and several countries in southeast Aruba, Columbia, Cypress, Australia, Mexico Asia during the Lake Erie offseason. and the U.S. He is a Certified Joint Health & Safety Representative for Lake Erie divers and is a CDWI aims to operate the best entry Certified Diving Medical Technician. John was an instructor for IMCA Offshore Diving level commercial diver training program Supervisor (Offshore Hazards and Safety) at Seneca College, and is also a Certified Kirby in the world, with training beyond the Morgan Dive System Maintenance and Repair Technician. Canadian Standards Association’s Z275.5 John loves to spend time with his wife, Kristen, and kids, Brayden and Emma. Diver Training Guidelines and Auditing “I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude, which I know mirrors Procedures. Gord Hay, chief instructor at the sentiments of many working divers and companies that have had the good fortune CWDI, chairs the training standard. of being trained and had divers working for them that are the product of Gord Hay’s “When we started,” says Hay, “the vision of a properly trained working diver that CWDI has produced over the last 25 only other diver training college in years. Hats off and helmets on to Gord, his family and CWDI!” says John. Canada was Seneca, and we were “I would also like to take this opportunity announce to the industry that I have been training to Canadian Oil, Gas and Land honoured with the opportunity to pick up the hose and tend Canadian Working Divers Administration guidelines, which then Institute into the future as the new owner and chief . It is my intent to became the National Energy Board. Back take CWDI into the future in the same light that has been such a time-tested success then, we were audited be Jan Merta, the over the years, and look forward to being an integral part of shaping future divers into chief diving inspector of Canada.” competent, safe and efficient members of our industry.” continued on page 22

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If you want to get good at something, you need to do it daily This philosophy helped design CWDI’s course, which immerses divers in the trade so they can find out quickly if it’s up their alley or not. Because an career is demanding, it’s only fitting that a training program is demanding, too. That way, contractors know they can produce, whether they’re on the surface or under it. “I paid my 21st visit to a diver training school, CWDI in Canada, and I consider it to be probably the toughest and most intensive course in the world,” said commercial diving advocate, Michael Cocks, over a decade ago. While most training programs require divers to spend eight months completing an 840-hour course, CWDI’s intense, accelerated offering has a low student to instructor ratio (four students per instructor) allows students to complete the requirements in fewer than three months with plenty of direction, as divers are working in offshore and onshore environments for 12-hour days, six or seven days per week. Diving barges are moored close to the classroom and living facilities so that students can get in a full day of diving on practical projects that duplicate actual working environments. As CWDI celebrates a change in ownership, John Pegg, diver, diving supervisor, and health and safety representative, will be the new owner and manager of CWDI, and Gord Hay will remain with the team as a diving safety specialist.

Gord Hay is a diving safety specialist at Canadian Working Divers Institute.

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If you’re a member of the CADC and have some great shots of your crew at work (in and out of the water), we want to see them! Showcase what you do. The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 23 Send images for consideration to [email protected]. 24 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 news CADC Initiates Phase 1 of Diving Safety Self-Audit Program By Doug Elsey, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Diving Contractors

As of January 1, 2017, the Canadian to a standard recognized by responsible Association of Diving Contractors (CADC) operators as the absolute minimum level Q: What has ramped things up by initiating the needed to protect the underwater worker will the first phase of its Diving Safety Self-Audit and support personnel. safety audit be based on? Program, which is based on current A: The safety audit will be based on the CSA diving standards recognized by the FAQs on CADC’s Diving Safety Self- CSA Diving Standards 275.2 (Operations) CADC and its members as one of the best Audit Program and 275.4 (Competency) as a minimum minimal diving safety standards available Q: Why do a safety audit? if no other regulation or standard is in both nationally and internationally. A: A safety audit ensures that a diving place. In a self-audit, a form / checklist A requirement by CADC members to firm is operating in a safe manner and in has been provided to the members by follow current CSA Dive Standards Z275.2 compliance with provincial or offshore the CADC in the form of a guideline to and Z275.4 in the absence of regulations regulations in the areas of operations. determine compliance to the standard. On as a minimum level of safety has always Or—as a minimum—will be based on completion, the form will be sent back to been necessary for membership in the the current CSA Diving Standards 275.2 CADC and placed in the members file. All organization. (Operations) and 275.4 (Competency) if no information is confidential and is kept by Diving Operations involve a unique other regulation or standard are in place. the executive director. combination of occupational health and Clients hiring diving or underwater safety issues performed in an unforgiving services need assurances that the firms Q: Who is going to pay for an audit? environment, where errors can quickly they are hiring follow minimum safe diving A: In the case of a self-audit, there is no develop into fatal accidents. Individual practices recognized by the industry. external cost associated with the audit risks must be managed if diving is to be In Canada—in absence of provincial or as the contractor does it in-house. In conducted in a safe and efficient manner. federal regulations or standards—one the case of having the audit done by an Following a recognized diving standard of most highly regarded operational auditor, the cost will be covered by the is recognition of the requirement for standards are the CSA Z275 series of member being audited. On request, an minimum safe dive standards for all Dive Standards. Companies operating auditor experienced in diving safety audits professional diving services providers to under these standards provide a level of can be sent from a location nearest the end the confusion as to what is acceptable assurance to the client that the operations contractor to assist in the audit. CADC may within our industry for the protection of follow strict minimal industry safety add a small administrative charge but it is our workers. Anything less is viewed as standards. CADC members, as a condition envisioned the audit will be at-cost only. jeopardizing safety and is in potential of membership, have signed-off that they This is not intended to be a money-making criminal violation of Canadian Bill C-45 follow these minimum standards (in the proposition by CADC; the focus is safety on the legal requirement to protect the absence of provincial/federal regulations) and accountability to adhere to safety worker. The CSA Z275 Diving Standards as a baseline in their operations. They may standards. fulfil this requirement as a good place to operate under more stringent standards If the audit is done correctly, the start. beyond the minimum as a company policy member will derive the benefits in having The CADC Diving Safety Self-Audit or as required by the client, but they do a complete list of all deficient items and Program consists of a declaration follow at least a minimum standard in ALL instructions on how to correct them. It can of compliance and is in the form of operations. be the firm’s blueprint to compliance and a guideline / checklist based on the should be approached with that in mind. current CSA Z275.2-15 Diving Operations Q: Is this a requirement for membership This is not a “pass/fail” audit, as the goal standard. The pertinent line items have to the CADC? of the audit is to determine deficiencies— been transposed onto a table for ease of A: Yes, it is. There has always been a if any—and provide suggestions to confirming code compliance. If codes are requirement for compliance to CSA eliminate them in order to comply. found to be non-compliant, comment Standards as a condition of membership space has been provided to identify how in the CADC in absence of regulations. The Q: What if a member company does not and when the requirement will be met. provision of the Statement of Compliance comply? What happens? This self-check audit serves as a to the standards and the guidelines A: Our industry and organization is checklist to re-affirm that operations simplifies this requirement. Starting in based on professionalism, trust and the comply to the current CSA dive safety 2017, all new members will be required to goal of making the industry safe for our standard and identifies shortfalls for the submit the statement of compliance on workers. All efforts will be made to help operator to adjust operations to ensure their application or list deficiencies (and the member identify deficiencies in their standard compliance. It serves as a tool date of anticipated corrections to these safety program to achieve a recognized to ensure all diving operations operate deficiencies.) continued on page 26

The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 25 news continued from page 25 level of safety and aid them in correcting diving audit and meet or exceed it. Refer Q: If this is Phase One, what is the deficiencies. Ignoring compliance to the audit you have done, check off the Phase Two...or beyond? with these minimum safety standards can compliance declaration of our audit, and attach A: Phase Two may be for mandatory result in termination of CADC membership or reference it on the CADC Safety Audit as third-party audits for compliance. if not corrected in a timely manner. There compliant. There is a lot of merit to this. It is are no exceptions. being done in other jurisdictions. Q: Is this part of the mission by CADC to Participate—it’s your industry. Q: I have already done an audit as have a single standard across the country? required by my client. Do I have to do A: Definitely! Recognition and compliance Doug Elsey is executive director of the it again? to a single minimum diving standard across Canadian Association of Diving Contractors A: No, as long as the safety audit covers the country prevents confusion in different (CADC). For further information or inquiries, the pertinent requirements of the CSA jurisdictions and increases safety for the contact the CADC through its website, Z275.2-15 items of the CADC / CSA worker. www.CADC.ca.

26 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 news Diver’s Safety: Evaluationg CSA Dive Standards By Ian Rodd, Learning Manager, Commercial Diving Program, Holland College

With the advent of the 1970s, regulations to control workplace By this time, CSA was in negotiations commercial diving in Canada was going activities in Canada. CAALL wanted with the National Energy Board (NEB) through a period of transition, from the to reduce this duplication of effort to take over the responsibilities for heavyweight deep-sea type of diving and concentrate the limited technical operational and diver competency dress to the use of SCUBA and new resources available to develop better standards in use at the time in the lightweight surface-supplied diving regulations and make it easier for the Canadian offshore industry. CSA equipment. During this period, there was increasingly mobile workforce to comply concluded it could write a standard a significant increase in the number of with a single national set of regulations. pertaining to competence for all divers diving-related injuries and fatalities. In spring 1992, an inter-governmental and not just the ones working offshore. A large group of representatives from working group was established to act This was the genesis for CSA 275.4 and, the diving industry, from coast to coast as a steering committee for the national because the NEB was looking to shed to coast, agreed action was needed harmonization project. itself of this responsibility, it helped fund to develop safer underwater working In 1994, an new edition of CSA the development of the new standard. standards for the commercial diving Z275.2 was released to the regulatory Subsequently, in 2003, the Diver industry in Canada. authorities, prompting several OSH Certification Board of Canada (DCBC) In 1971, stakeholders, including jurisdictions to review their own diving was established to fill the gap of diver government regulatory authorities, regulation. Because of this, CAALL certification—another responsibility shed Defence and Civil Institute of determined this would be a good by the NEB. Today, most professional Environmental Medicine, employers, regulatory template to include in a divers in Canada are certified by the workers, and labour groups met in study for harmonization of regulations. DCBC to CSA Z275.4. Toronto to discuss an approach to In spring 1994, two pilot projects were CSA has been developing consensus address the growing concern for the identified: diving and confined spaces. standards for occupational diving for need of a robust diving standard within In fall 1994, a working group 45 years. These standards have been the industry. for the study of diving regulations adopted voluntarily by the diving sector Early work began on the development was established, pulling together across Canada and are recognized of the CSA Z275.1 Hyperbaric Facilities representatives from government, labour and used internationally. They have standard, followed in 1972 by the CSA and employer groups. Their task was to been widely adopted in provincial and Z275.2 Occupational Safety Code for develop a set of common requirements territorial OHS regulations by reference Diving Operations (CSA Z275.2). The first that could be used by groups in each to a section or sub-sections of a particular two, of what would become six standards jurisdiction responsible for the drafting of standard(s) in the regulation. in the CSA Z275 family, were published regulations. Several provinces simply state that in 1974. By 1997, the first edition of the CSA CSA Z275.2 and/or CSA Z275.4 are In 1992, the Canadian Association Z275.4 Competency Standard for Diving adopted and constituted as part of the of Administrators of Labour Operations (CSA Z275.4) was published, diving regulation. One jurisdiction makes Legislation (CAALL) was interested in and the working group had completed a softer reference to the CSA standards in the harmonization of Occupational its work on the proposed common a that provides practical Health and Safety (OSH) regulations requirements. Unfortunately, among guidance to help comply with the law. in Canada. At the time, each province the provinces, there were still numerous One of the reasons CSA develops and territory had its own unique set issues regarding enforcement that national standards is to encourage of OSH regulations: 13 sets of OHS weren’t resolved. continued on page 28

The Canadian Association of Diving Contractors 27 news continued from page 27 CSA applauds organizations such safety of all diving personnel and others recognition of a common set of as the Canadian Association of Diving involved in diving activities. competency and safety requirements Contractors, which has called upon its across the country. The establishment membership to bring their operations Ian Rodd has worked in both the inshore and of national standards also supports the into compliance with the CSA Z275.2 and offshore diving industries, employed with the recognition of the Canadian standards have made available a self-audit tool that Occupational Health and Safety Division of the among international organizations— will assist them in their efforts to comply Workers Compensation Board of PEI and with equipment suppliers, service providers, (see page 25 to learn more). Holland College as a learning manager with the employers, and other governments. CSA has worked, and will continue Commercial Diving Program since 2015. He is a past For these reasons, CSA’s technical to work, diligently with industry groups, director of the Diver Certification Board of Canada committee encourages the recognition government, regulators, and divers to and maintains membership with the Board of of the current editions of these industry advance the development of the CSA Canadian Registered Safety Professionals and the consensus standards in all jurisdictions. Z275 family of standards to ensure the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering.

28 www.cadc.ca ■ Summer 2017 news CADC Membership Listings 2017 Committed to Safety, Performance, Professionalism ALBERTA NEW BRUNSWICK Diving Services QUEBEC ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Institute maritime du Quebec Advance Diving Projects All Sea Atlantic Ltd. Brian McCrodan Expertech Marine Inc. AXSUB Inc. Julie Normand Darrin Moench Kent Grass Peterborough, ON Marc-André Desy Luc Garand Rimouski, QC Calgary, AB Saint John, NB (705) 742-5817 Quebec, QC Rimouski, QC (418) 724-2822 (403) 612-3162 (506) 648-3483 [email protected] (418) 694-7444 (418) 731-0231 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dundee Energy LP Kongsberg Maritime Allied Commercial Divers Ltd. East Dive Ltd. Mike Waldie Mistras Services Inc. Canadian Diving Safety / DND Nick Burchill Brad Niehaus John McFadzen London, ON Yves Richer Robert Klein Dartmouth, NS Edmonton, AB Island View, NB (905) 834-2963 Sainte-Julie, QC Ottawa, ON (902) 468-2268 (780) 439-1889 (506) 459-3483 [email protected] (450) 922-3515 (613) 971-7680 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dundee Marine Ontario Provincial Police – Underwater Canada Pump and Power Corp. Ship To Shore Diving and Engineering Shaun Rafferty MVC Océan Inc. D. W. Geddes & Associates Inc. Search Recovery Unit Jeremy Leonard Dave Lewis Hartington, ON Yves Becotte Dave Geddes Kevin Gorman Ardrossan, AB Ammon, NB (613) 539-5337 Trois Rivières, QC Stouffville, ON Gravenhurst, ON (780) 922-5556 (506) 389-3483 [email protected] (819) 377-2856 (905) 833-2085 (705) 330-2529 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Galcon Marine Ltd. Northern Underwater Systems LP Dave Gallagher Deep Tech Services Ltd. Seneca College NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR UNITED STATES Bill Stark Toronto, ON Doug Elsey Aaron Griffin Afonso Group Ltd. Epic Diving and Marine Services Edmonton, AB (416) 255-9607 Mississauga, ON King City, ON Stephan Chafe William Bratkowski (403) 650-0474 [email protected] (905) 542-3223 (416) 491-5050 St. John’s, NL Belle Chase, LA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (709) 576-6070 O.D.S. Marine Ltd. (504) 681-1200 Pan Dakota Dive Services [email protected] Jim Freeth [email protected] Divers Institute of Technology Inc. INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONALS Jeff Williams Ottawa, ON John Paul Johnston Bailey’s Marine Services Ltd. Global Diving and Salvage Inc. Canadian Workplace Safety Exshaw, AB (613) 821-3988 Seattle, WA Dean Bailey Sarah Burroughs Bob Landry (403) 678-7441 [email protected] (206) 783-5542 Kippens, NL Seattle, WA Scarborough, ON [email protected] [email protected] (709) 643-9260 Ontario Power Generation (206) 838-1604 (416) 931-6552 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] BRITISH COLUMBIA Richard Hayward Holland College Port Hope, ON Steve MacFarlane Advanced Subsea Services Ltd. Oceaneering Canada J.F. Brennan Company, Inc. Ryan Anderson (905) 885-3000 Stephan White Murray Mackay Brian Dodgson Randy Jacobs Vancouver, BC [email protected] Summerside, PEI Sidney, BC Mount Pearl, NL Ottawa, IL (902) 652-2055 Subsea Technology Specialist (250) 656-1770 (709) 570-7072 Soderholm Maritime Services Inc. (815) 433-5228 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Jim English Leif Soderholm Lions Bay, BC All Sea Enterprises Sea- Diving Ltd. Hamilton, ON (778) 280-5056 Mark Morgan Barry Hynes (905) 529-1344 [email protected] Vancouver, BC Mount Pearl, NL [email protected] (604) 980-9613 (709) 753-2021 [email protected] [email protected]

CamCor Diving Ltd. NOVA SCOTIA Cory Beaudry CDMS Atlantic Sidney, BC Kensen Jardine (250) 726-5522 North Sydney, NS [email protected] (902) 794-9795 Can-Dive Construction Ltd. [email protected] Phil Nuytten Connors Diving Services Ltd. Vancouver, BC Neil Connors (604) 984-9131 Lakeside, NS [email protected] (902) 876-7078 Canadian Coast Guard [email protected] Bruce Briggs Dominion Diving Ltd. Richmond, BC Shawn MacPhail (604) 803-9041 Dartmouth, NS [email protected] (902) 434-5120 Cold Water Divers Inc. [email protected] Adam Coolidge Huntley’s Sub Aqua Construction North Saanich, BC Mike Huntley (250) 888-2601 Kentville, NS [email protected] (902) 678-9869 DiveSafe International [email protected] Kelly Korol RMI Marine Ltd. Campbell River, BC Rob Ritchy (250) 287-3837 Eastern Passage, NS [email protected] (902) 463-6114 Diving Dynamics [email protected] Vern Johnston Kelowna, BC ONTARIO (250) 861-1848 All Sea Great Lakes [email protected] Robert Boldt St. Catharines, ON Fraser Burrard Diving Ltd. (905) 933-1667 Aaron Heath [email protected] Maple Ridge, BC (604) 940-9177 ASI Group Ltd. [email protected] Blake Goulet St. Catharines, ON ITB Subsea Ltd. (905) 641-0941 Charlie Costello [email protected] Vancouver, BC (604) 984-8383 Canadian Working Divers Institute [email protected] John Pegg Buckhorn, ON South Coast Diving Ltd. (705) 657-2766 Pat Thompson [email protected] Victoria, BC (250) 361-1556 Canadian Workplace Safety [email protected] Bob Landry Scarborough, ON MANITOBA (416) 931-6552 Dominion Divers (2003) Ltd. [email protected] Garth Hiebert Canadyne Navigation Winnipeg, MB Phil Jenkins (800) 599-4933 Carleton Place, ON [email protected] (613) 253-7502 [email protected]

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Advertisers with this logo beside their name are members of the CADC. Air Compressors Diving & Engineering Jordair Compressors Inc...... 12 Ship To Shore Diving & Engineering Ltd...... 24 Air Testing Diving Contractor & Commercial Diving Trace Analytics...... 17 Training Camcor Diving Inc. / BC College of Diving...... 14 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Ocean Server Technology Inc...... 30 Diving Contractors Diversified Divers Inc...... 22 Burlap Sling Bags Dominion Divers Ltd...... outside back cover Quikrete...... inside front cover Expertech Marine...... 11 Canadian Underwater Conference ITB Subsea Ltd. (Formerly Canpac Diver Certification Board of Canada...... 22, 30 Divers Inc.)...... 16 MVC Océan Inc...... 26 Certification Westcoast Diving Contractors Ltd...... 26 Diver Certification Board of Canada...... 22, 30 Diving Equipment & Drysuits Commercial Diver Training Aqua Lung Canada...... 20 Holland College...... 24 Minnesota Commercial Diver Diving School Training Center...... 14 Divers Institute of Technology...... 29 Commercial Divers Diving Services Valard Dive Services...... 28 Diving Services Inc...... 24 Soderholm Maritime Services Inc...... 26 Commercial Diving Equipment & Supplies AXSUB Inc...... 24 Hot Water Systems Connors Diving...... 18 Custom Design & Fabrication Ltd...... 6 Dive Commercial International Inc...... 20 Marine Construction Sea-View Diving...... 4 Galcon Marine Ltd...... 18 Consulting & Training O.D.S. Marine...... 26 D.W. Geddes & Associates Ltd...... 18 Marine Construction & Diving Contractor Corrosion Protection Canadyne Navigation...... 29 Denso North America ...... inside back cover O2 Gas Booster Dive Computers Hydraulics International Inc...... 22 Inc...... 10 Rope Manufacturer Diver Training Novatec Braids Ltd...... 12 Diving Dynamics...... 22 Underwater Lift Bags Subsalve USA...... 28

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