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Guide Notes for Inspection Personnel

This section contains Guide notes Volumes 1 to 12

NDT Equipment

Instruction manuals for Inspection Equipment

Kirby Morgan Products

Kirby Morgan Product Manuals -

Pipeline Section

Pipeline equipment

CSWIP - Requirements for the Certification of Underwater

CSWIP examination requirements documents

Diving Manuals (Supv)

IMCA The Diving Supervisor’s Manual
IMCA Diving Supv Scheme (hyperbaric document)

Inspection Section

Inspection Manuals, Questions, Hints and Help Topics

US Navy & Army Manuals

US Navy Diving Manual
Army Engineer Diving Book
US Navy Underwater Cutting & Welding manual
US Military Sealift Command Manual

UK Offshore Maps

Contained within this section are then North Sea oil and gas block and operators

Hydratight Sweeney - Pipeline

MORGRIP® is a weldless mechanical connector which provides a high integrity connection for all types of metal pipework, onshore and offshore, topside and subsea.

Seamanship Documents

This section cover most of the topics within seamanship. This includes;
Celestial Navigation
Navigational Formulas
Sextant Course

Hydratight Sweeney Products

Torque Multipliers
Nutsplitters
Flange Spreaders
Flange Pullers

U.S. Navy Salvage Manual

This manual is the first in a series of six related publications that will comprise the U.S. Navy Salvage Manual.

IMCA Guidance Notes

IMCA Guidance notes, please note that these are constantly updated and those listed might have been updated.

Inspection Data Gathering Systems

Here are some of the current computer based inspection data gathering systems.
Although the basics are listed you might be required to complete a course before being able to us offshore.
VisualWorks
Xpans
COABIS
AIMS (Netlink)

IMCA Documents

IMCA Related documents;
Senior Pipeline Inspection Engineer
IMCA Design Documents
IMCA Client Representative Competence

IMCA Diving Supervisor’s Manual

Please note these documents are amended periodically and cannot be guaranteed as being correct at the time of accessing them on this site!

D 001 - Dive Technician Training
D 002 - Battery Packs in Pressure Housings
D 003 - Oxy-arc Cutting Operations Underwater
D 004 - Initial & Periodic Examination, Testing & Certification of Hyperbaric Evacuation Launch Systems
D 005 - Auditing of IMCA Training Courses for Diving Personnel
D 006 - Diving Operations in the Vicinity of Pipelines
D 007 - Overboard Scaffolding Operations & their Effect on Diving Safety
D 008 - Testing of Through-Water Communications
D 009 - Protective Guarding of Gas Cylinder Transport Containers (Quads)
D 010 - Diving Operations from Vessels operating in Dynamically Positioned Mode
D 011 - Annual Audit of Diving Systems (for the UK continental shelf)
D 012 - Stainless Steel in Oxygen Systems
D 013 - IMCA Offshore Diving Supervisor & Life Support Technician Schemes
D 014 - IMCA International Code of Practice for Offshore Diving
D 015 - Mobile/Portable Surface Supplied Systems
D 016 - Underwater Air Lift Bags
D 017 - Lost Bell Survival
D 018 - Initial & Periodic Examination, Testing & Certification of Diving Plant & Equipment
D 019 - Diving Operations in Support of intervention on Wellheads and Subsea Facilities
D 020 - IMCA Scheme for Recognition of Diver Medic Training Guidance for Training Establishments
D 021 - Diving in Potentially Contaminated Locations
D 022 - The Diving Supervisor’s Manual
D 023 - DESIGN for Surface Oriented (Air) Diving Systems
D 024 - DESIGN for Saturation Diving Systems (Bell)
D 025 - Evacuation of Divers from Installations
D 027 - Marking of Hyperbaric Rescue Systems Designed to Float in Water
D 028 - The Use of Chain Lever Hoists in the Offshore Sub-Sea Environment
D 029 - Experience & Employment Profile of Diving Personnel
D 030 - Surface Supplied Mixed Gas Diving Operations
D 031 - Cleaning for Oxygen Service Setting up Facilities and Procedures
D 032 - Cross-Hauling of Bells
D 033 - Limitations in the Use of SCUBA Offshore
D 037 - DESIGN for Surface Supplied Mixed Gas Diving Systems
D 038 - Experience and Employment Profile of North Sea Diving Personnel
D 039 - FMEA Guide for Diving Systems
D 040 - Design for Mobile/Portable Surface Suppied Systems

R 006 - Standard ROV Audit Document

DMAC GuideLines

Diving Medical Advisory Committee (DMAC) guide lines.

Please note these documents are amended periodically and cannot be guaranteed as being correct at the time of accessing them on this site!

DMAC 01 (1984) - Transmission of Medical Data to Shore
DMAC 02 (1979) - In-Water Diver Monitoring
DMAC 03 (1981) - Accidents with High Pressure Water Jets
DMAC 04 (1981) - Partial Pressure of O2 in Bail-Out Bottles
DMAC 05 (1981) - Minimum Level of O2 in Helium Supplied Offshore
DMAC 06 (1981) - The Effect of Sonar Transmission on Commercial Diving Activities
DMAC 07 (2001) - Flying After Diving
DMAC 08 (1981) - Thermal Stress in Relation to Diving
DMAC 09 (1982) - Fitness to Dive after Neurological Decompression Sickness
DMAC 11 (2001) - Provision of First Aid, Training of Divers, Supervisors and Members of Dive Teams in First Aid
DMAC 12 (1979) - Diving Distance from Seismic Surveying Operations
DMAC 13 (1994) - Assessing Fitness to Return to Diving After Decompression Illness
DMAC 15 (1995) - Medical Equipment to be Held at the Site of an Offshore Diving Operation
DMAC 17 (1985) - raining & Refresher Training of Doctors involved in the Examination of Professional Divers and in the Treatment of Diving-Related Illnesses
DMAC 19 (1990) - The Effects of Water Vapour on Diver Physiology
DMAC 20 (1997) - Duration of Bell Lockouts
DMAC 21 (2006) - The Duration of Saturation Exposures and Surface Intervals following Saturations
DMAC 22 (1992) - Proximity to a Recompression Chamber After Surfacing
DMAC 23 (1993) - The Use of Heliox in Treating Decompression Illness
DMAC 24 (1993) - Differential Diagnosis
DMAC 26 (1995) - Saturation Diving Chamber Hygiene
DMAC 28 (2003) - The Provision of Emergency Medical Care for Divers in Saturation
DMAC 29 (2006) - Approval of Diving Medicine Courses

Diving Industry Personnel Competence Standards

IMCA Safety Flashes

IMCA Safety Flashes

ROV - Related

Documents that relate to ROV's or equipment they carry

Laws of Physics

Laws of diving physics
Boyle's Law
Charles Law
Dalton's Law