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Date Posted: 10:28:05 04/04/02 Thu
Author: BlahBlahBlah
Subject:

What about proper safety equipment?
In reply to: anon 's message, "Diving Safety Issues" on 14:58:23 03/31/02 Sun

I recall hearing a person on one of the radio talk shows talking about the lack of proper safety equipment on dive boats. If I recall correctly, it involved the lack of proper oxygen supplies on a dive boat, on Cayman Brac. The best remedy for a diving accident, and to reduce the further damage until a dive chamber can be used is to provide oxygen to the victim.

I also agree that the waivers signed by divers are too broad and allow dive operators to do anything they want, regardless of the safety issues. The diver has signed away any right to sue for negligence. This should not have been allowed to happen, much less permitted to continue. Where are the legislators when things like this go unchecked? Probably too busy lining up the next development deal and lining their own pockets to the detriment of the Caymanian public!

Blah

>Government safety laws are needed for the water sports
>Industry in the Cayman Islands. Laws with substantial
>penalties and liabilities should be passed to protect
>the customers and operating personnel of the various
>companies. At present there are only rules set up by
>the industry , which are adhered to on a voluntary
>basis, to protect the divers or the personnel
>employed. Government regulations and penalties are
>needed in the following areas.
>
>1 - All scuba tanks including those used by the
>companies to fill scuba tanks must be inspected
>visually every year and hydro tested every 5 years.
>
>2 - All dive and snorkeling boats must have certified
>CPR personnel on board every trip.
>
>3 - Snorkelers must be provided with a life vest with
>solid flotation or snorkeling vest which has a co2
>inflator at a reasonable price.
>
>4 - All compressors used to fill scuba tanks should be
>inspected every year to assure the quality of the
>compressed air they produce.
>
>The legal waiver documents which the divers are
>required to sign before diving with an operator must
>not legally absolve the company for it?s own mistakes.
>The companies must be responsible for any untoward
>consequences The legal waivers now being forced on
>divers in order to allow them to dive, absolve the
>operators from any prosecution whether or not it is
>their fault. A person who comes to the Diving Mecca Of
>The Caribbean should not be forced to surrender his
>legal rights in order to go diving This feature of
>diving here is not explained in the tourist/dive
>literature sent to tourists.
>
>
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