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Too bad they don't pot test cave instructors - would not be too many left. One particular favorite of mine out there keeps his pot in a Pelican box when he goes cave diving. Any one care to guess who this one is? -----Original Message----- From: Kent Lind <klind@al*.ne*> To: Techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Saturday, June 17, 2000 6:23 PM Subject: RE: Dive Master's Wanted >Alton: > >How does the dive industry get away with only sporadic use of testing? Are >the regulations simply not being enforced? Out of curiousity I looked up the >USCG pre-employment drug testing regulations at 40 CFR 16.210 and they are >pretty explicit. I read these regulations to require manadatory >pre-employment testing for ALL crew members that work at sea. This would >appear to apply to any divemaster that works at sea. The UCGC regs at 46 CFR >16 also include requirements for periodic testing, random testing, and testing >after serious marine accidents. These also appear to apply to divemasters >working at sea. I was never able to get out of any of this when I used to >work at sea as a fisheries observer. Here's the CFR cite for pre-employment >testing. The entire section can be found at >http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_99/46cfr16_99.html > >--------------------------------------------------------- >[Code of Federal Regulations] >[Title 46, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 40] >[Revised as of October 1, 1999] > > TITLE 46--SHIPPING > >PART 16--CHEMICAL TESTING--Table of Contents > > Subpart B--Required Chemical Testing > >Sec. 16.210 Pre-employment testing requirements. > > (a) No marine employer shall engage or employ any individual to >serve as a crewmember unless the individual passes a chemical test for >dangerous drugs for that employer. > (b) An employer may waive a pre-employment test required for a job >applicant by paragraph (a) of this section if the individual provides >satisfactory evidence that he or she has: > (1) Passed a chemical test for dangerous drugs, required by this >part, within the previous six months with no subsequent positive drug >tests during the remainder of the six-month period; or > (2) During the previous 185 days been subject to a random testing >program required by Sec. 16.230 for at least 60 days and did not fail or >refuse to participate in a chemical test for dangerous drugs required by >this part. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alton Hall, Jr. [mailto:ahall@da*.co*] >> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 10:47 AM >> To: Trey >> Cc: Christian Gerzner; klind@al*.ne*; Techdiver >> Subject: Re: Dive Master's Wanted >> >> >> Interestingly random drug testing is used only sporadically in the >> commercial >> dive industries. As of last week the Federal Appellate Court that >> controls the >> Gulf states ruled that OSHA did not apply leaving only USCG regulations. The >> Coast Guard requires mandatory drug testing in all cases involving serious >> injury. I am often amazed at the high rate of drug use detected when such >> "unannounced" testing is performed. Recently a 10 man dive crew >> all tested positive for either cocaine or marijuana use. Perhaps the ADC can >> learn a lesson from the WKPP. >> Alton >> >> Trey wrote: >> >> > OK, I thought maybe you were Chrissy Brown in disguise or >> something. I know >> > for a fact how stupid drug use is, and will not tolerate it in >> the WKPP, and >> > neither will any other intelligent person who knows anything about drugs. >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Christian Gerzner <christiang@pi*.co*.au*> >> > To: Trey <trey@ne*.co*> >> > Cc: klind@al*.ne* <klind@al*.ne*>; Techdiver >> <techdiver@aquanaut.com> >> > Date: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:00 AM >> > Subject: Re: Dive Master's Wanted >> > >> > >Trey, Kent, >> > > >> > >My comment may have been taken incorrectly, I simply was trying to say >> > >that it is sad that the drug problem has apparently escalated to such an >> > >extent in your neck of the woods that drug testing now seems to be a >> > >routine requirement for "mission critical" operations. >> > > >> > >No, it is not a requirement (yet?) in Oz. >> > > >> > >Christian >> > > >> > >Trey wrote: >> > >> >> > >> Kent, I agree with you 100% . >> > >> -----Original Message----- >> > >> From: Kent Lind <klind@al*.ne*> >> > >> To: Christian Gerzner <christiang@pi*.co*.au*> >> > >> Cc: Techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com>; AtlanticDiver >> > >> <AtlanticDiver@li*.co*> >> > >> Date: Thursday, June 15, 2000 10:25 AM >> > >> Subject: RE: Dive Master's Wanted >> > >> >> > >> >Actually, I don't think they have a choice. I believe that US law >> > requires >> > >> >mandatory drug testing of all companies that employ a certain >> number of >> > >> people >> > >> >at sea. All the commercial fishing companies are required to do drug >> > >> testing >> > >> >and I was required to do it when I was working at sea as a fisheries >> > >> observer. >> > >> >So I doubt that it's something that that Outer Banks Dive >> Center thought >> > up >> > >> on >> > >> >their own. >> > >> > >> > >> >In any event, I don't get the thrust of your comment. If you were >> > running >> > >> a >> > >> >dive boat, would you want to place your customers in the hands of a >> > drugged >> > >> >out divemaster? Maybe you do things differently in Australia. >> > >> > >> > >> >-Kent- >> > >> > >> > >> >> -----Original Message----- >> > >> >> From: Christian Gerzner [mailto:christiang@pi*.co*.au*] >> > >> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 9:53 PM >> > >> >> To: Alex Varouxis >> > >> >> Cc: Techdiver; CyberDiver@eg*.co*; AtlanticDiver >> > >> >> Subject: Re: Dive Master's Wanted >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> Alex Varouxis wrote: >> > >> >> (small snips) >> > >> >> >> > >> >> > The Outer Banks Dive Center in Nags Head NC is looking >> for Full and >> > >> Part >> > >> >> > times Dive Masters. For more information give them a call at >> > >> >> 252-449-8349 or >> > >> >> > e-mail them at macd1@ob*.co*. Must be Drug Free and >> pass a drug >> > >> test. >> > >> >> >> > >> >> > Must be Drug Free and pass a drug test. >> > >> >> >> > >> >> Maybe it's just my age but I find that statement just so >> dispiriting. >> > :-( >> > >> >> >> > >> >> Christian >> > > >> > >> > -- >> > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. >> > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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