Global Industries has become the ninth International Contractor Member (ICO) of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA). Other ICOs – a membership category established in 1996 – are Acergy, Allseas, Heerema Marine Contractors, Helix Energy Solutions Group, J Ray McDermott, Saipem, Subsea 7 and Technip. “Our ICO member companies are involved with IMCA on a [...]
Near Miss: Unexpected Lowering of a Suspended Load A member has reported an incident in which there was an unexpected lowering of a suspended load during a lifting operation which had the potential to cause significant injury. During maintenance of an ROV winch system, a yoke was being supported in position by a shore crane [...]
Trapped Diver Umbilical Incident Resulting in Diver Fatality A member has reported an incident where a trapped diver umbilical resulted in his death. During the surface supplied diver operation, the diver was deployed to the bottom (56m) to locate fixing points for davits which required him to travel along the pipeline and for the barge [...]
Failure of Gas Supply to Diving Bell A member has reported an incident in which there was a failure of the breathing system in a diving bell. During diving operations at a storage depth of 102 metres, bell checks were being carried out on one of the bells. The bellman did a full function test [...]
Online developments related to the invaluable International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) ‘Common Marine Inspection Document’ (CMID) are well on target. A new electronic format – the ‘e-CMID’; and a secure online database, both of which are intended to further enhance the consistent completion and availability of completed CMID reports are currently under development. Both will [...]
Decompression illness (DCI) is not considered to be an issue within the regulated areas of the offshore oil and gas diving industry today, a survey of diving contractor members of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has revealed. “We recently asked our diving contractor members to provide data on the incidence of DCI such as [...]
Well over 600 companies in 52 countries are now members of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA). This news will be officially announced at a function being held at Offshore Europe on Thursday 10 September by the association, which represents offshore, marine and underwater engineering companies. “Only a year ago we were able to announce [...]
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Veolia ES Industrial Services has recently delivered a design-built, 1,000-foot (305-m) saturation dive system to Dulam Subsea Solutions of Dubai. Veolia designed and built the system at its in-house manufacturing facility in Neenah, Wisconsin over an 18-month period. It was delivered to the customer in early August. Veolia’s engineering staff [...]
HOUSTON — The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) stated that is had received “strong support and serious expressions of concern from across the global industry” in regards to the news of proposed changes to interpretations of the Jones Act by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The proposed policy modifications would change interpretations of [...]
LBJ Maritime Inc, a USA-owned and operated company, and KBA Training Centre Pte Ltd of Singapore have announced their third series of IMCA classes in Lake Charles, Louisiana. This follows the successful first and second classes, where the classes achieved a 100% pass rate. The courses offered are IMCA ALST, Air Supervisor, and Bell Supervisor [...]
A new document produced by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) is designed to assist with the ongoing competence of first aid personnel onboard vessels. ‘First Aid and Other Emergency Drills’ (IMCA C 013), the new publication, is not a guidance document, instead it sets out a range of first aid and other emergency drills [...]
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