Safety Flashes

A member has reported the following incident. A cargo barge loaded with 525 tons was moored to a pipelay barge, when one of the bollards on the cargo barge broke […]

A member has informed us of a serious incident that occurred when a person was injured while checking the service date on one of the man-overboard and buoy smoke marker […]

A member has reported this recent incident, concerning negative pressure when breaking containment in subsea pipework. During diving operations on a subsea manifold in 140 msw, work was being undertaken […]

A member has reported finding the ‘job-made’ lifting hook shown below, rough cut from half inch steel plate, during a routine safety check at a vendor’s shipyard. The lifting hook […]

Attached please find a caution notice recently received from Divex concerning the above.

A sodium floodlight is reported to have fallen from a crane boom. On investigation, the floodlight mounting bracket was found to be cracked and the pad eye weakened and this […]

A member reports a diving near miss incident when a concrete protection mattress was being moved into position. A concrete flexible protection mattress was being deployed by ship’s crane whilst […]

A member has sent a safety notice that was passed to him from a major oil company which is of interest to all members. Two stowaways were found on board […]

A clump weight was sent to a member’s dive ship with the intention of it being used as a dead man anchor (DMA). The offshore manager correctly rejected the weight […]

In the Safety Flash 09/01 we gave an update on the design problem found in a Macartney Cormax unit manufactured by Norlau (see Safety Flash 08/01 – Failure of ROV […]

Members should be aware of the attached caution/safety notice we have received from Divex.

We have received the following information concerning a failure of a plastic floatation buoy. During deepwater operations on one of our member’s vessels, a sling had been recovered to surface […]

One of our members has reported an ROV winch failure during drill support on a semi submersible drill rig working in 80-100 meters water depth. During a ROV launch the […]

A member has reported that a damage event occurred recently at one of their workshop facilities, where a sealed housing containing a rechargeable battery pack exploded. In this incident a […]

In the Safety Flash 08/01 (Failure of ROV lift umbilical winch brake) we reported an incident concerning an uncontrolled ROV umbilical winch run off involving a MacArtney CORMAX unit manufactured […]

One of our members has informed us of recent incident which occurred during the assembly of oxy-acetylene cutting equipment. An internal explosion occurred and injured a Dive Tender, fortunately not […]

One of our members has recently reported a failure of a winch brake on an air diving bell system. One of their vessels was undertaking air diving work using a […]

Introduction One of our members has informed us of the following incident. An ROV system was providing subsea intervention support working from a drill rig in depths up to 2500msw. […]

Our attention has been drawn to an injury on a drilling rig, when a heavy bolt fell 14 metres and hit a roughneck on the head. He was wearing a […]

The investigation into a diver fatality on a subsea structure involving oxy-arc cutting has identified that the most likely cause of the explosion was that gas trapped in a cavity […]