Underwater diving

For the Olympic sport, see Diving. For other uses, see Dive (disambiguation).

Two divers wearing lightweight demand helmets stand back-to-back on an underwater platform holding on to the railings. The photo also shows the support vessel above the surface in the background.
Surface supplied divers riding a stage to the underwater workplace
Interior view of a museum display showing standard diving dress with copper helmet in the foreground.
Museum of Diving in Warsaw
A drawing of a flag with white hoist and blue swallowtail fly.
The international code flag "Alpha", meaning: "I have a diver down; keep well clear at slow speed"
A drawing of a red flag with a white diagonal band from the top of the hoist to the bottom of the fly.
Alternative 'Diver down' flag in common use in the United States and Canada

Underwater diving is the practice of descending below the water's surface to conduct underwater activities. In ambient pressure diving, the diver is exposed to the pressure of the surrounding water, and uses breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface supplied diving, or when freediving, will breath-hold. The saturation diving technique reduces the risk of decompression sickness after long duration deep dives. Atmospheric diving suits may be used to isolate the diver from the effects of high ambient pressure. Although not usually considered to be diving, crewed submersibles can extend depth range, while remotely controlled or robotic diving machines can reduce the risk to human divers.

The diving environment exposes the diver to a wide range of hazards, and though the risks are largely controlled by appropriate diving skills, training, types of equipment and breathing gases used depending on the mode, depth and purpose of diving, it remains a relatively dangerous activity. Diving activities are restricted to relatively shallow depths ranging from around 40 m (130 ft.) maximum for recreational Scuba diving to commercial saturation diving maximum around 534 metres (1,752 ft) and 610 metres (2,000 ft) wearing atmospheric diving suits. Diving is also restricted to conditions which are not excessively hazardous, though the level of risk acceptable to the diver can vary considerably. Occasionally diving may be done in liquids other than water.

Recreational diving, sometimes called sport diving or subaquatics, is a popular leisure activity. Technical diving is a form of recreational diving that achieves greater depths or endurance in more challenging conditions. Professional diving (commercial diving, diving for scientific research purposes or diving for financial gain) takes a range of diving activities to the underwater work site. Public safety diving is the underwater work done by law enforcement, fire rescue, and search & rescue/recovery dive teams, and may be done by professionals or volunteers. Military diving includes combat diving, clearance diving and ship's husbandry diving. Underwater sports is a group of competitive sports using either free-diving, snorkeling or scuba technique, or a combination of these techniques. The term "deep sea diving" refers to underwater diving, usually with surface supplied equipment, and often refers specifically to the use of standard diving dress with the traditional copper helmet. "Hard hat" diving is any form of diving with a helmet, including the standard copper helmet, and other forms of free-flow and lightweight demand helmets.

Diving modes

There are several modes of diving based on the diving equipment used.

Freediving

A croup of three divers dressed in wetsuits standing on a rocky shore with the sea in the background. On the ground are inflated truck inner tube floats with nets to support their catch
Recreational breath-hold divers in basic equipment with floats and catch bags suitable for collecting lobster or shellfish

The ability to dive and swim underwater while holding one's breath is considered a useful emergency skill, an important part of water sport and Navy safety training, and an enjoyable leisure activity.[1] Underwater diving without breathing apparatus can be loosely categorized as underwater swimming, snorkeling and freediving. These categories overlap considerably. Several competitive underwater sports are practiced without breathing apparatus.[2][3][4][5][6]

Freediving precludes the use of external breathing devices, and relies on the ability of divers to hold their breath until resurfacing. The technique ranges from simple breath-hold diving to competitive apnea dives. Fins and a diving mask are often used in free diving to improve vision and provide more efficient propulsion. A short breathing tube called a snorkel allows the diver to breathe at the surface while the face is immersed. Snorkeling on the surface with no intention of diving is a popular water sport and recreational activity.[1][7]

Scuba diving

Main article: Scuba diving
Two divers swim over a rocky reef in clear water. They are trimmed level and show good technique
Recreational scuba divers on open circuit

Scuba diving is diving with a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, which is completely independent of surface supply. Scuba provides the diver with the advantages of mobility and horizontal range far beyond the reach of an umbilical hose attached to surface-supplied diving equipment (SSDE).[8] Scuba divers engaged in armed forces covert operations may be referred to as frogmen, combat divers or attack swimmers.[9] There are two main classes of scuba distinguished by how the breathing gas is used:

Open circuit scuba systems discharge the breathing gas into the environment as it is exhaled, and consist of one or more diving cylinders containing breathing gas at high pressure which is supplied to the diver through a diving regulator. They may include additional cylinders for decompression gas or emergency breathing gas.[10]

A diver appears to work on a large spherical mine, with another diver observing from a distance in the background
Explosive ordnance disposal divers using rebreathers during a training exercise

Closed-circuit or semi-closed circuit rebreather scuba systems allow recycling of exhaled gases. The volume of gas used is reduced compared to that of open circuit; therefore, a smaller cylinder or cylinders, may be used for an equivalent dive duration. They far extend the time spent underwater as compared to open circuit for the same gas consumption. Rebreathers produce fewer bubbles and less noise than scuba which makes them attractive to covert military divers to avoid detection, scientific divers to avoid disturbing marine animals, and media divers to avoid bubble interference.[11]

A scuba diver primarily moves underwater by using fins attached to the feet,[12] but external propulsion can be provided by a diver propulsion vehicle, or a towboard pulled from the surface. Other equipment includes a diving mask to improve underwater vision, a protective diving suit, equipment to control buoyancy, and equipment related to the specific circumstances and purpose of the dive.[13] Scuba divers are trained in the procedures and skills appropriate to their level of certification by instructors affiliated to the diver certification organisations which issue these certifications. These include standard operating procedures for using the equipment and dealing with the general hazards of the underwater environment, and emergency procedures for self-help and assistance of a similarly equipped diver experiencing problems. A minimum level of fitness and health is required by most training organisations, but a higher level of fitness may be appropriate for some applications.[14]

Surface supplied diving

A US Navy surface supplied diver wearing a lightweight demand helmet and holding the umbilical at head level is shown entering the water by jumping in. The view is from the deck from which the diver has jumped, and shows the back of the diver as the fins first contact the water
A U.S. Navy diver enters the water during a training evaluation

An alternative to self-contained breathing systems is to supply breathing gases from the surface through a hose. When combined with a communication cable, a pneumofathometer line and a safety line, an optional hot water hose for heating, a video cable and a gas reclaim line, it is called the diver's umbilical. More basic equipment that may use only an air hose is called an airline or hookah system.[15][13][16]

Saturation diving lets professional divers live and work under pressure for days or weeks at a time. After working in the water, the divers rest and live in a dry pressurized underwater habitat on the bottom or a saturation life support system of pressure chambers on the deck of a diving support vessel, oil platform or other floating platform at a similar pressure to the work depth. They are transferred between the surface accommodation and the underwater workplace in a pressurised closed diving bell. Decompression at the end of the dive may take many days, but since it is done only once for a long period of exposure, rather than after each of many shorter exposures, the overall risk of decompression injury to the diver and the total time spent decompressing are reduced. This type of diving allows greater economy of work and enhanced safety.[17]

Night view of a white spherical pressure chamber in a blue pipe frame supporting several blue bulk gas storage clinders, suspended over the water by cables. The bell umbilical is visible at the top and a ballast weight can be seen below at the water surface
US Navy Diver Transfer Capsule

Surface oriented, or bounce diving, is how commercial divers refer to diving operations where the diver starts and finishes the diving operation at atmospheric pressure.[18] The diver may be deployed directly, often from a diving support vessel or indirectly via a diving bell. Surface-supplied divers almost always wear diving helmets or full face diving masks. The bottom gas can be air, nitrox, heliox or trimix, the decompression gases may be similar, or may include pure oxygen.[19] Decompression procedures include in-water decompression or surface decompression in a deck chamber.[20]

A wet bell with a gas filled dome provides more comfort and control than a stage and allows for longer time in water. Wet bells are used for air and mixed gas, and divers can decompress on oxygen at 12 metres (40 ft).[19] Small closed bell systems have been designed that can be easily mobilized, and include a two-man bell, a handling frame and a chamber for decompression after transfer under pressure (TUP). Divers can breathe air or mixed gas at the bottom but are usually recovered with the chamber filled with air. They decompress on oxygen supplied through built in breathing systems (BIBS) towards the end of the decompression. Small bell systems support bounce diving down to 120 metres (390 ft) and for bottom times up to 2 hours.[19]

A relatively portable surface gas supply system using high pressure gas cylinders for both primary and reserve gas, but using the full diver's umbilical system with pneumofathometer and voice communication is known in the industry as Scuba replacement.[21]

Another alternative to scuba diving is "airline" or "hookah" diving which allows the diver to breathe using an air supply hose from a cylinder or compressor at the surface. Breathing gas is supplied through a mouth-held demand valve or light full-face mask. It is used for light work such as hull cleaning and archaeological surveys, for shellfish harvesting, and as "Snuba", which is a shallow water activity typically used by tourists and those who are not scuba-certified.[16][22][23]

Compressor diving is a rudimentary method of surface-supplied diving used in some tropical regions such as the Philippines and the Caribbean. The divers swim with a half mask and fins and are supplied with air from an industrial low-pressure air compressor on the boat through plastic tubes. There is no reduction valve; the diver holds the hose end in his mouth with no demand valve or mouthpiece and allows excess air to spill out between the lips.[24]

Atmospheric pressure diving

A diver in an armoured diving suit stands on a launch and recovery platform on the support vessel, attended by a crewman.
US Navy Atmospheric Diving System (ADS)

Submersibles and 'hard' atmospheric diving suits enable diving to be carried out in a dry environment at normal atmospheric pressure. An atmospheric diving suit (ADS) is a small one-person articulated submersible of anthropomorphic form which resembles a suit of armour, with elaborate joints to allow articulation while maintaining an internal pressure of one atmosphere. An ADS can be used for deeper dives of up to about 2,300 feet (700 m) for many hours, and eliminates the majority of physiological dangers associated with deep diving; the occupant need not decompress, there is no need for special gas mixtures, and there is no danger of nitrogen narcosis, at the expense of higher cost, complex logistics and loss of dexterity.[25][26]

Unmanned diving

A work class remotely operated underwater vehicle working on a complex underwater installation using a manipulator arm.
ROV working on a subsea structure

Robotic autonomous underwater vehicles and remotely operated underwater vehicles also carry out some functions of divers. They can be deployed at greater depths and in more dangerous environments. An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is a robot which travels underwater without requiring input from an operator. AUVs constitute part of a larger group of unmanned undersea systems, a classification that includes non-autonomous remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) – controlled and powered from the surface by an operator/pilot via an umbilical or using remote control. In military applications AUVs are more often referred to simply as unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs).[27][28]

Range of diving activities

Helmeted surface supplied diver using a coated electrode to arc-weld a steel patch to the underwater hull of a landing craft.
Professional diver using surface supplied diving equipment performing underwater welding
A scuba diver swims over a reef with a large still camera in an underwater housing with dome port and electronic strobes.
Underwater photographer

Diving may be performed for a number of reasons, both personal and professional. Recreational diving is purely for enjoyment and has a number of specialisations and technical disciplines to provide more scope for varied activities for which specific training can be offered, such as cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving and deep diving.[29][30]

There are various aspects of professional diving that range anywhere from part-time work to lifelong careers. Professionals in the recreational dive industry include instructor trainers, dive instructors, assistant instructors, divemasters, dive guides, and scuba technicians. Commercial diving is industry related and includes civil engineering tasks such as in oil exploration, offshore construction dam maintenance and harbour works. Commercial divers may also be employed to perform tasks specifically related to marine activities, such as naval diving, including the repair and inspection of boats and ships, salvage of wrecks or aquaculture.[31][32][33]

Other specialist areas of diving include military diving, with a long history of military frogmen in various roles. They can perform roles including direct combat, infiltration behind enemy lines, placing mines, bomb disposal or engineering operations.[34]

In civilian operations, police forces keep police diving units to perform search and rescue operations. In some cases diver rescue teams may also be part of a fire department, paramedical service or lifeguard unit, and may be classed as public safety diving.[35][36] There are also professional divers such as underwater photographers and videographers, who record the underwater world, and scientific divers in fields of study which involve the underwater environment, including marine biologists, geologists, hydrologists, oceanographers and underwater archaeologists.[37][33][38]

The choice between scuba and surface supplied diving equipment is based on both legal and logistical constraints. Where the diver requires mobility and a large range of movement, scuba is usually the choice if safety and legal constraints allow. Higher risk work, particularly commercial diving, may be restricted to surface supplied equipment by legislation and codes of practice.[15][38][39]

History

Further information: Timeline of diving technology
In the centre foreground, a man in a transparent cylinder is being lowered into the water by a group of turbaned figures on a small sailing vessel.
16th-century Islamic painting of Alexander the Great lowered in a glass diving bell

The history of underwater diving starts with freediving as a widespread means of hunting and gathering, both for food and other valuable resources such as pearls and coral, from before 4500 BCE.[40] By classical Greek and Roman times commercial applications such as sponge diving and marine salvage were established,[41] Military diving also has a long history, going back at least as far as the Peloponnesian War,[42] with recreational and sporting applications being a recent development. Technological development in ambient pressure diving started with stone weights (skandalopetra) for fast descent.[41] In the 16th and 17th centuries diving bells became functionally useful when a renewable supply of air could be provided to the diver at depth, and progressed to surface supplied diving helmets – in effect miniature diving bells covering the diver's head and supplied with compressed air by manually operated pumps – which were improved by attaching a waterproof suit to the helmet and in the early 19th century became the standard diving dress, which made a far wider range of marine civil engineering and salvage projects practicable.[43][44][45][46][47][48]

Limitations in mobility of the surface supplied systems encouraged the development of both open circuit and closed circuit scuba in the 20th century, which allow the diver a much greater autonomy.[49][50][51] These also became popular during World War II for clandestine military operations, and post-war for scientific, search and rescue, media diving, recreational and technical diving. The heavy free-flow surface supplied copper helmets evolved into lightweight demand helmets, which are more economical with breathing gas, which is particularly important for deeper dives and expensive helium based breathing mixtures, and saturation diving reduced the risks of decompression sickness for deep and long exposures.[34][47][52][53][54][55]

Monochrome view of the deck of a ship with a pair of divers, and a group of onlookers, some of which are crew of the ship. To the left is a diver in an armoured suit, and to the right the diver is in standard diving dress with copper helmet
Two divers, one wearing the "Tritonia" ADS and the other standard diving dress, preparing to explore the wreck of the RMS Lusitania, 1935

An alternative approach was the development of the "single atmosphere" or armoured suit, which isolates the diver from the pressure at depth, at the cost of great mechanical complexity and limited dexterity. The technology first became practicable in the middle 20th century.[26][56] Isolation of the diver from the environment was taken further by the development of remotely operated underwater vehicles in the late 20th century, where the operator controls the ROV from the surface, and autonomous underwater vehicles, which dispense with an operator altogether. All of these modes are still in use and each has a range of applications where it is has advantages over the others, though diving bells have largely been relegated to a means of transport for surface supplied divers. In some cases combinations are particularly effective, such as the simultaneous use of surface orientated or saturation surface supplied diving equipment and work or observation class remotely operated vehicles.[45][57][58]

Physiological discoveries

By the late 19th century, as salvage operations became deeper and longer, an unexplained malady began afflicting the divers; they would suffer breathing difficulties, dizziness, joint pain and paralysis, sometimes leading to death. The problem was already well known among workers building tunnels and bridge footings operating under pressure in caissons and was initially called 'caisson disease' but later the 'bends' because the joint pain typically caused the sufferer to stoop. Early reports of the disease had been made at the time of Pasley's salvage operation, but scientists were still ignorant of its causes.[45]

French physiologist Paul Bert was the first to understand it as decompression sickness. His classical work, La Pression barometrique (1878), was a comprehensive investigation into the physiological effects of air-pressure, both above and below the normal.[59] He determined that inhaling pressurized air caused the nitrogen to dissolve into the bloodstream; rapid depressurization would then release the nitrogen into its natural gaseous state, forming bubbles that could block the blood circulation and potentially cause paralysis or death. Central nervous system oxygen toxicity was also first described in this publication and is sometimes referred to as the "Paul Bert effect".[59][60]

A three-quarter view from the left monochrome portrait of a middle-aged white man with a receding hairline and a bushy moustache. He is wearing a jacket and a stiff white collar.
John Scott Haldane 1910

John Scott Haldane designed a decompression chamber in 1907 and he produced the first decompression tables for the Royal Navy in 1908 after extensive experiments with animals and human subjects.[61][62][63] These tables established a method of decompression in stages – it remains the basis for decompression methods to this day. Following Haldane's recommendation, the maximum safe operating depth for divers was extended to 200 feet (61 m).[34]

The US Navy continued its research into decompression, and in 1915 the first C & R tables (Bureau of Construction and Repair) were developed by French and Stilson.[64] A significant number of experimental dives were conducted in the 1930s, forming the basis for the 1937 US Navy air decompression tables. Surface decompression and oxygen use were also researched in the 1930s, and the US Navy 1957 tables developed to deal with problems found in the 1937 tables.[65]

In 1965 Hugh LeMessurier and Brian Andrew Hills published their paper, A thermodynamic approach arising from a study on Torres Strait diving techniques, which suggested that decompression by conventional models results in bubble formation which is then eliminated by re-dissolving at the decompression stops which is slower than off-gassing while still in solution. This indicates the importance of minimizing bubble phase for efficient gas elimination.[66][67]

M.P. Spencer showed that doppler ultrasonic methods can detect venous bubbles in asymptomatic divers.[68] and Dr Andrew Pilmanis showed that safety stops reduced bubble formation.[65] In 1981 D.E. Yount described the Varying Permeability Model, proposing a mechanism of bubble formation.[69] Several other bubble models followed. Although the pathophysiology of decompression sickness in not yet fully understood, decompression practice has reached a stage where the risk is fairly low, and most incidences are successfully treated by therapeutic recompression and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Mixed breathing gases are routinely used to reduce the effects of the hyperbaric environment on ambient pressure divers.[65][70][71]

Diving environment

A diver is visible underwater in a hole cut in the ice cover of a small lake. Blocks of ice cut to form the hole are stacked to one side, and a second diver sits on the edge of the hole with his legs in the water. A rough wooden ladder bridges the hole, and a third diver kneels to one side. The dive site is cordoned off with a red and white tape, and other members of the support team stand to the side, with onlookers outside the cordon. There is a residential area along the shoreline in the background.
Ice diving

Dive sites are restricted by accessibility and risk, but may include water and occasionally other liquids. Most underwater diving is done in the shallower coastal parts of the oceans, and inland bodies of freshwater, including lakes, dams, quarries, rivers, springs, flooded caves, reservoirs, tanks, swimming pools, and canals, but may also be done in large bore ducting and sewers, power station cooling systems, cargo and ballast tanks of ships, and liquid-filled industrial equipment. Diving in liquids other than water may present special problems due to density, viscosity and chemical compatibility of diving equipment, as well as possible environmental hazards to the diving team.[72] Water temperature, visibility and movement also affect the diver and the dive plan.[73]

Benign conditions, sometimes also referred to as confined water, are environments of low risk, where it is extremely unlikely or impossible for the diver to get lost or entrapped, or be exposed to hazards other than the basic underwater environment. these conditions are suitable for initial training in the critical survival skills, and include swimming pools, training tanks, aquarium tanks and some shallow and protected shoreline areas.[74]

Open water is unrestricted water such as a sea, lake or flooded quarry. Open water also means the diver has direct vertical access to the surface of the water in contact with the atmosphere.[75] Open water diving implies that if a problem arises, the diver can directly ascend vertically to the atmosphere to breathe air.

An overhead or penetration diving environment is where the diver enters a space from which there is no direct, purely vertical ascent to the safety of breathable atmosphere at the surface. Cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving and diving inside other natural or artificial underwater structures or enclosures are examples. The restriction on direct ascent increases the risk of diving under an overhead, and this is usually addressed by adaptations of procedures and use of equipment such as redundant breathing gas sources and guide lines to indicate the route to the exit.[38][72][73]

Depth range

A scuba diver in a wetsuit holds onto the shotline at a decompression stop. He is breathing from a rebreather and carrying a side-slung 80 cubic foot aluminium bailout cylinder on each side. A second diver is partly visible to the left.
A technical diver using a closed circuit rebreather with open circuit bailout cylinders returning from a 600-foot (180 m) dive
See also: Deep diving

The recreational diving depth limit set by the EN 14153-2 / ISO 24801-2 level 2 "Autonomous Diver" standard is 20 metres (66 ft).[76] The recommended depth limit for more extensively trained recreational divers ranges from 30 metres (98 ft) for PADI divers,[77] (this is the depth at which nitrogen narcosis symptoms generally begin to be noticeable in adults), 40 metres (130 ft) specified by Recreational Scuba Training Council,[77] 50 metres (160 ft) for divers of the British Sub-Aqua Club and Sub-Aqua Association breathing air,[78] and 60 metres (200 ft) for teams of 2 to 3 French Level 3 recreational divers, breathing air.[79]

For technical divers, the recommended maximum depths are greater on the understanding that they will use less narcotic gas mixtures. 100 metres (330 ft) is the maximum depth authorised for divers who have completed Trimix Diver certification with IANTD[80] or Advanced Trimix Diver certification with TDI.[81] 332 metres (1,089 ft) is the world record depth on scuba (2014).[82] Commercial divers using saturation techniques and heliox breathing gases routinely exceed 100 metres (330 ft), but they are also limited by physiological constraints. Comex Hydra 8 experimental dives reached a record open water depth of 534 metres (1,752 ft) in 1988.[83] Atmospheric Diving System (ADS) suits are mainly constrained by the technology of the articulation seals, and have achieved a depth of 610 metres (2,000 ft) by a US Navy diver.[84][85]

Dive sites

View of the coastal waters from the top of a hill, showing an approximately circular hole in the shallow coastal reef tangent to the deeper water offshore.
The Blue hole in Dahab, Egypt, is a world-renowned recreational dive site

The common term for a place at which one may dive is a dive site. As a general rule, professional diving is done where the work needs to be done, and recreational diving is done where conditions are suitable. As a consequence, there are many recorded and publicized recreational dive sites which are known for their convenience, points of interest, and frequently favourable conditions. Diver training facilities for both professional and recreational divers will generally use a small range of dive sites which are familiar, convenient and where conditions are predictable and the risk is relatively low.[86]

Underwater divers

Diver training

A group of about 12 divers on the shore of a flooded quarry preparing surface supplied diving equipment for diver training exercises. Several umbilicals are laid out for use in figure 8 coils.
Commercial diver training in a quarry
Main article: Diver training
See also: Diving physics

Underwater diver training is normally given by a qualified instructor who is a member of one of many diving training agencies or is registered with a government agency. Basic diver training entails the learning of skills required for the safe conduct of activities in an underwater environment, and includes procedures and skills for the use of diving equipment, safety, emergency self-help and rescue procedures, dive planning, and use of dive tables.[87][88]

The skills which an entry level diver will normally learn include:[87][88]

Further training is required to develop the skills necessary for diving in a wider range of environments, with specialised equipment, and to become competent to perform a variety of underwater tasks.[72][73][14][34]

Some knowledge of physiology and the physics of diving is considered necessary by most diver certification agencies, as the diving environment is alien and relatively hostile to humans. The physics and physiology knowledge required is fairly basic, and helps the diver to understand the effects of the diving environment so that informed acceptance of the associated risks is possible. The physics mostly relates to gases under pressure, buoyancy, heat loss, and light underwater. The physiology relates the physics to the effects on the human body, to provide a basic understanding of the causes and risks of barotrauma, decompression sickness, gas toxicity, hypothermia, drowning and sensory variations. More advanced training often involves first aid and rescue skills, skills related to specialized diving equipment, and underwater work skills.[87][88]

Physiological aspects of diving

The physiology of diving and hyperbaric exposure includes the following aspects.[89]

Fitness to dive

Main article: Fitness to dive

Medical fitness to dive is the medical and physical suitability of a diver to function safely in the underwater environment using underwater diving equipment and procedures. Depending on the circumstances it may be established by a signed statement by the diver that he or she does not suffer from any of the listed disqualifying conditions and is able to manage the ordinary physical requirements of diving, to a detailed medical examination by a physician registered as a medical examiner of divers following a procedural checklist, and a legal document of fitness to dive issued by the medical examiner.[90]

Diving medicine

Photograph of the cramped interior of a cylinder containing two benches and two diver trainees
A recompression chamber is used to treat some diving disorders.
Main article: Diving medicine

Diving medicine is the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of conditions caused by exposing divers to the underwater environment. It includes the effects on the body of pressure on gases, the diagnosis and treatment of conditions caused by marine hazards and how fitness to dive affects a diver's safety. Hyperbaric medicine is another field associated with diving, since recompression in a hyperbaric chamber with hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the definitive treatment for two of the most significant diving-related illnesses, decompression sickness and arterial gas embolism.[91][92]

Diving medicine deals with medical research on issues of diving, the prevention of diving disorders, treatment of diving accident injuries and diving fitness. The field includes the effect of breathing gases and their contaminants under high pressure on the human body and the relationship between the state of physical and psychological health of the diver and safety. In diving accidents it is common for multiple disorders to occur together and interact with each other, both causatively and as complications. Diving medicine is a branch of occupational medicine and sports medicine, and first aid and recognition of symptoms of diving disorders is an important part of diver education.[89]

Risks and safety

Hazard and vulnerability interact with likelihood of occurrence to create risk, which can be the probability of a specific undesirable consequence of a specific hazard, or the combined probability of undesirable consequences of all the hazards of a specific activity. The presence of a combination of several hazards simultaneously is common in diving, and the effect is generally increased risk to the diver, particularly where the occurrence of an incident due to one hazard triggers other hazards with a resulting cascade of incidents. Many diving fatalities are the result of a cascade of incidents overwhelming the diver, who should be able to manage any single reasonably foreseeable incident.[93][94][95]

The assessed risk of a dive would generally be considered unacceptable if the diver is not expected to cope with any single reasonably foreseeable incident with a significant probability of occurrence during that dive. Precisely where the line is drawn depends on circumstances. Commercial diving operations are constrained by occupational health and safety legislation, but also by the physical realities of the operating environment, and expensive engineering solutions are often necessary to control risk. A formal hazard identification and risk assessment is a standard and required part of the planning for a commercial diving operation, and this is also the case for offshore diving operations. The occupation is inherently hazardous, and great effort and expense are routinely incurred to keep the risk within an acceptable range. The standard methods of reducing risk are followed where possible.[93][94][96]

Statistics on injuries related to commercial diving are normally collected by national regulators. In the UK the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is responsible for the overview of about 5,000 commercial divers, and in Norway the corresponding authority is the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), which has maintained the DSYS database since 1985, gathering statistics on over 50,000 diver-hours of commercial activity per year.[97][98] The risks of dying during recreational, scientific or commercial diving are small, and on scuba, deaths are usually associated with poor gas management, poor buoyancy control, equipment misuse, entrapment, rough water conditions and pre-existing health problems. Some fatalities are inevitable and caused by unforeseeable situations escalating out of control, but the majority of diving fatalities can be attributed to human error on the part of the victim.[99] According to a North American 1972 analysis of calendar year 1970 data, diving was, based on man hours, 96 times more dangerous than driving an automobile.[100] According to a 2000 Japanese study, every hour of recreational diving is 36 to 62 times riskier than automobile driving.[101]

Scuba diving fatalities have a major financial impact by way of lost income, lost business, insurance premium increases and high litigation costs.[99] Equipment failure is rare in open circuit scuba, and while the cause of death is commonly recorded as drowning, this is usually the consequence of an uncontrollable series of events taking place in water in which drowning is the endpoint, while the real cause remains unrecorded.[102] Air embolism is also frequently cited as a cause of death, and it, too is the consequence of other factors leading to an uncontrolled and badly managed ascent, occasionally aggravated by medical conditions. About a quarter of diving fatalities are associated with cardiac events, mostly in older divers. There is a fairly large body of data on diving fatalities, but in many cases the data is poor due to the standard of investigation and reporting. This hinders research which could improve diver safety.[102][103]

Artisanal fishermen and gatherers of marine organisms in less developed countries may expose themselves to relatively high risk using diving equipment if they do not understand the physiological hazards, particularly if they use inadequate equipment.[104]

Diving hazards

Divers operate in an environment for which the human body is not well suited. They face specific physical and health risks when they go underwater or use high pressure breathing gas. The consequences of diving incidents range from merely annoying through to rapidly fatal, and the actual result often depends on the equipment, skill, response and fitness of the diver and diving team. The hazards can be listed under several categories: These include The aquatic environment, the use of breathing equipment in an underwater environment, exposure to a pressurised environment and pressure changes, particularly pressure changes during descent and ascent, and breathing gases at high ambient pressure. Diving equipment other than breathing apparatus is usually reliable, but has been known to fail, and loss of buoyancy control or thermal protection can be a major burden which may lead to more serious problems. There are also hazards of the specific diving environment, and hazards related to access to and egress from the water, which vary from place to place, and may also vary with time. Hazards inherent in the diver include pre-existing physiological and psychological conditions and the personal behaviour and competence of the individual. For those pursuing other activities while diving, there are additional hazards of and hazards of task loading, of the dive task and of special equipment associated with the task.[105][106]

The presence of a combination of several hazards simultaneously is common in diving, and the effect is generally increased risk to the diver, particularly where the occurrence of an incident due to one hazard triggers other hazards with a resulting cascade of incidents. Many diving fatalities are the result of a cascade of incidents overwhelming the diver, who should be able to manage any single reasonably foreseeable incident.[93][94] The assessed risk of a dive would generally be considered unacceptable if the diver is not expected to cope with any single reasonably foreseeable incident with a significant probability of occurrence during that dive. Precisely where the line is drawn depends on circumstances. Commercial diving operations tend to be less tolerant of risk than recreational, particularly technical divers, who are less constrained by occupational health and safety legislation.[93][94]

Human factors

Human factors are the physical or cognitive properties of individuals, or social behavior which is specific to humans, and influence functioning of technological systems as well as human-environment equilibria. The safety of underwater diving operations can be improved by reducing the frequency of human error and the consequences when it does occur.[93] Human error can be defined as an individual's deviation from acceptable or desirable practice which culminates in undesirable or unexpected results.[107]

The four major factors influencing diving safety are the environment, the diving equipment and the performance of the diver and the dive team. The underwater environment is alien and both physically and psychologically stressful. The other factors must be controlled to mitigate the overall stress on the diver and allow the dive to be completed in acceptable safety. The equipment is critical to diver safety for life support, but is generally reliable, controllable and predictable in its performance.[93]

Human error is inevitable and everyone makes mistakes at some time. The consequences of these errors are varied and depend on many factors. Most errors are minor and do not cause significant harm, but others can have catastrophic consequences. Examples of human error leading to accidents are available in vast numbers, as it is the direct cause of 60% to 80% of all accidents.[108] In a high risk environment, as is the case in diving, human error is more likely to have catastrophic consequences. A study by William P. Morgan indicates that over half of all divers in the survey had experienced panic underwater at some time during their diving career.[109] These findings were independently corroborated by a survey[110] that suggested 65% of recreational divers have panicked under water. Panic frequently leads to errors in a diver's judgment or performance, and may result in an accident. Human error and panic are considered to be the leading causes of diving accidents and fatalities.[94][109][111][112][113][114]

Only 4.46% of the recreational diving fatalities in a 1997 study[115] were attributable to a single contributory cause. The remaining fatalities probably arose as a result of a progressive sequence of events involving two or more procedural errors or equipment failures, and since procedural errors are generally avoidable by a well-trained, intelligent and alert diver, working in an organised structure, and not under excessive stress, it was concluded that the low accident rate in professional scuba diving is due to this factor.[116] The study also concluded that it would be impossible to completely eliminate all minor contraindications of Scuba diving, as this would result in overwhelming bureaucracy and would bring all diving to a halt.[115]

Risk management

Risk is controlled by the usual measures of engineering,[note 1] administration and procedures,[note 2] and personal protective equipment,[note 3] including hazard identification and risk assessment (HIRA), protective equipment, medical screening, training and standardised procedures.[117] Professional divers are generally legally obliged to formally carry out and record these measures,[96] and though many of them are not legally required of recreational divers,[39] they are generally informally performed by competent recreational divers, and particularly technical divers, and are an important part of their training. For example: medical statement or examination, pre-dive site assessment and briefing, safety drills, thermal protection, equipment redundancy, alternative air source, buddy checks, buddy or team diving procedures, dive planning, underwater hand signals, and carrying first aid and oxygen administration equipment.

Inshore and inland commercial and military diving is directly regulated by legislation in many countries. Responsibility of the employer, client and diving personnel is specified in these cases,[39][96] while offshore commercial diving may take place in international waters, and is often done following the guidelines of a voluntary membership organisation such as the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), which publishes codes of accepted best practice which their member organisations are expected to follow.[21][118]

Recreational diver training, and dive leading are industry regulated in some of those countries, and only directly regulated by government in a subset of them. In the UK, HSE legislation specifically includes recreational diver training and dive leading for reward,[96] while the US and South Africa are examples where industry regulation is accepted, though non-specific health and safety legislation would still apply.[39] Israel is unusual in that recreational diving activities are legally constrained by the Recreational diving Act, 1979 (חוק הצלילה הספורטיבית, תשל"ט-1979).

The legal responsibility for recreational diving service providers is usually limited as far as possible by waivers which they require the customer to sign before engaging in any diving activity. The extent of responsibility of recreational buddy divers is unclear and has been the subject of considerable litigation. It is probable that it varies between jurisdictions. In spite of this lack of clarity, buddy diving is recommended by recreational diver training agencies as safer than solo diving, and some service providers will insist that customers dive as buddy pairs.[119][120][121]

Notes

  1. ↑ Engineering methods control the hazard at its source. When feasible, the work environment and the job itself is designed to eliminate hazards or reduce exposure to hazards, based on the following principles:
    • If feasible, the hazard is removed or substituted by something that is not hazardous.
    • If removal is not feasible, the hazard is enclosed to prevent exposure during normal operations.
    • Where complete enclosure is not feasible, barriers are established to limit exposure during normal operations.
  2. ↑ Safe work practices, appropriate training, medical screening and limiting exposure by rotation of workers, breaks and limits on shift length are forms of administrative controls. They are intended to limit the effect of the hazard on the worker when it cannot be eliminated.
  3. ↑ Personal protective clothing and equipment are required in diving operations as exposure to the inherent hazards cannot be engineered out of normal operations, and safe work practices and management controls cannot provide sufficient protection from exposure, Personnel protective controls assume the hazard will be present and the equipment will prevent injury to the persons exposed.

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