October 13th: Diver Incident and Safety Resource CentreGareth Lock is the founder of Cognitas (cognitas.org.uk), an organisation promoting a “just culture” among divers and highlighting the need to encourage divers to report all incidents, however minor or innocuous they appear to be at the time.
Gareth Lock is the founder of Cognitas http://www.cognitas.org.uk/cognitas/Index.html, an organisation promoting a “just culture” among divers and highlighting the need to encourage divers to report all incidents, however minor or innocuous they appear to be at the time.
Gareth himself is a highly qualified diver and underwater photographer, and as well as running Cognitas in his spare time he also manages to hold down a very full time job as a serving officer in the RAF. His RAF background has seen him undertake Human Factors and Crew Resource Management training and apply that knowledge to both operational and training sorties as a supervisor of aircrew and equipment design through trials and development activity. He has drawn strongly from this and the lessons learned, applying them to diving.
Gareth’s talk gives a fascinating insight into the causal factors behind diving incidents and lessons we can learn to promote safer diving practices, thus hoping to prevent further incidents occurring. He uses a real life case study as a discussion point, leaving the participants thinking about dive planning and execution on an even deeper level.
Gareth’s talk gives a fascinating insight into the causal factors behind diving incidents and lessons we can learn to promote safer diving practices, thus hoping to prevent further incidents occurring. He uses a real life case study as a discussion point, leaving the participants thinking about dive planning and execution on an even deeper level.
The talk lasts 50mins and there will be plenty of opportunity for questions at the end.
Day 1 (29/10/11) – Coronation WreckThe Coronation was a 90-gun Second Rate Ship in Line that was wrecked in 1691 off Penlee Point, Cornwall. There are two main areas of wreckage, the offshore and inshore site. Below is information I have taken from the Coronation Wreck Project website, http://www.coronationwreck.co.uk/index.html.
‘The offshore site comprises of rugged rock formations and sand-filled gullies. The site is in a general depth of 18 – 20m and has some kelp and low level vegetable turf covering the area. A large variety of marine life inhabits the site. The site has seventeen cannon and three anchors within it…
The Specialist Search and Recovery Team (SSRT) is involved in far more than diving.
The SSRT is a specialist team with training and expertise in search and recovery in hazardous environments. It works over land and under water, searching for and recovering items such as firearms, drugs, property, explosives and missing persons.
The team is made up of eight officers – one sergeant and seven constables – plus one police staff dive technician. The unit is involved in around 350 operations each year.
Thurs 22nd Sept @ 8pm (doors 7.30)
Open to the general public.
FREE ENTRY
To cover the cost of fuel and any maintenance overheads, the cost of snorkeling in open water from Naiad are as follows:
£5 per person for each open water snorkel dive from Naiad.
£5 per person for each shore based snorkel dive where Naiad is used as safety cover.
Shore based snorkel dives with shore cover are free.
All cost are to be paid to the Snorkel Dive Leader at the end of the event.
Costs are reviewed on an annual basis.
Due to the large amount of interest in the up and coming snorkel diver course, the pool practical lessons will be spilt into two courses, the first for adults and older teenagers and the second for children.
To replace last months cancelled trip, we are going to try Lulworth Cove again and hope the weather is better this time.
Senior Research Fellow at the School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre
ANGLER, DIVER or VOLUNTEER?:
The programme is aimed at sport shark anglers who record, tag and release the sharks that they catch.
How to Sex a Shark
What we hope to achieve
How Tagging Works
Why Tagging?
Weigh slings
What to do if you catch a tagged shark
Followed by questions and answers
Ian Banton will be tweeting the fortnight away from Scapa Flow – you can follow him @OxScubaDiveClub, or watch the Tweets in the right-hand column of our homepage.
The Royal Navy are coming to the clubhouse with their fast moving multi-media presentation, followed by a question and answer session.