Diving Incident and Safety Resource Centre (DISRC)/Diving Incidents Website

As some of you know I have been working on trying to raise the awareness of safety within diving and one of the recommendations from the report I wrote last year was to have a single focal point for all safety and incident management information within sport (not commercial) diving.

I have been developing the website for a little while adding articles and links and now I think it is ready to go public via the forums to raise the awareness through this medium as well as Facebook and Twitter.

There are now over a hundred articles referenced and am continually adding more.

Please visit the site, http://www.divingincidents.com or http://www.disrc.com, and if you are interested in being informed when new stuff is added, add your name and email address to the newsletter list or follow me on Twitter.

Regards

Great resource!

Great site, Great Resource

Good idea Gareth

1500 unique hits, 56 newsletter subscribers, 20 twitter followers and 19 articles uploaded over 4 days.

Feel free to link to your club website link pages if you like what you see.

Thank you for the support.

Regards

Latest newsletter came out Sunday with 27 new links/articles, many on incident reporting and physiology

Regards

Mmm, here is the issue which you have forced me to address.

At the moment, I don't provide links to forums other than specific incident reporting sections within forums such as RBW or ILADFT because the aim of the site isn't to act as a general diving forum, but to act as a single focal point for diving incident management and diving safety information.
http://www.divingincidents.com/index.php/categoryblog?layout=default

However, if UKD had a reporting section like YD, RBW, RR, or Finstrokes, then I could provide a link to it.

Regards

No but there are sections entitled "Useful or Interesting Blogs" and "Research or Information Sites" which could probably hide a way a little reciprocal link. No need to thank me

Silty, if you look at those links, they provide information to improving diving safety; research/information are sites like DAN, Rubicon, AAUS, SPUMS etc and Useful or Interesting Blogs contains links to two blogs which have a safety feel to them (Jill's cave diving incident is something worth reading about, and Steve provides some thought provoking blogs about dive safety).

Seriously, what does linking to a general forum do to improve dive safety? The links to YD and RBW provide direct links into the incident reporting sections of those sites.

Regards

Do we now need to start posts with something along the lines of "The following is intended tongue-in-cheek and should not be taken seriously"?

Sorry...

Been dealing with a really annoying person on YD who doesn't accept 'no' for an answer and this spilled over to here.

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Having just read the threadover on YD I feel compelled to say I think that was appalling moderation.

Fancy closing the thread just as it was getting interesting All was about to be revealed ffs.

It was the forum equivalent of turning off the tv just as Hercules Poirot says "And the murderer is...."

Will someone have a word please?

I'll have a word with myself...

And it wasn't me

Excellent website.

Thanks, and I have just uploaded some more incident reports, mainly CCR related but there is one which is applicable to both OC and CCR as it involved an OC diver helping a CCR with a CO2 hit.

You can subscribe to the newsletter or Twitter feeds so you will know when new reports/content is added.

If you have an incident which you would like to add, please contact me on gareth.lock at cognitas.org.uk

Regards

Another newsletter now out, #6 this time, DCI and Smoking, Equipment Failures in 1000 Diving Incidents, the HSE report in CCR operations and failures, recreational diving and PFO and finally, oxygen narcosis.

I know there are some formatting issues with the web page version, but if you want to subscribe to the newsletter, sign up on the DISRC front page (right hand side) and the Twitter feed signup is there too

The page looks a bit broken in Chrome.