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                      RE:Need mistakes to learn from                6/29/94
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Tracey Baker writes:

>Along the lines of the recent discussion on analyzing hypothetical (or
>not problem scenarios, I am interested in reading more real incident
>reports -- injuries, fatalities, or "near-misses".  I have the DAN 1992
>accident report, as well as several issues of AquaCorps and the "Safety
>First" technicalDIVER.

>I am looking for any more recent information on diving accidents, especially
>those involving advanced/tech diving -- wrecks, caves, "deep" (below ~100'),
>deco, whatever.  In other words, I'm not too interested right now in Joe
>Vacation Diver who gets in the water for the first time in five years and
>realizes he forgot how to swim.

>So... Can anyone give me sources of further information?  I know the cave
>diving community does pretty well with this; anyone know if there is a
>comparable repository for, say, wreck diving incidents?  Will DAN release
>incident reports before publication of their annual report?  I don't need
>statistical analyses or anything (and I don't intend to do any myself), just
>an idea of "what happened" in each case, what the diver was trying to do,
>and perhaps what their experience and training background was.  If anyone
>has any personal stories they wouldn't mind relating, that would be
>appreciated as well.

>--tab

Tracey,

Try Peter Yee*s SCUBA Archive (ames.arc.nasa.gov). In it are accident 
reports from Ontario,Canada for a ten year period. 
Although a bit old (1979-1988), I expect that you 
will learn something from the EXTENSIVE data found in these files. The 
files are named ontario*.txt. There are approximately 40 accident reports in
these files. I found it to be sobering reading, especially when you notice 
how many INSTRUCTORS were involved.

Steve Hogan
Steve_Hogan@qm*.sp*.tr*.co*

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