PLEASE READ Updates to the Accidents & Incidents Forum

[Akimbo]

The Accident & Incidents forum has evolved for more than 20 years. We have decided that our member’s and reader’s best interest would be served by making the following changes:

1. Forum Objective:
   Discuss incidents that are near, on, or under the water that divers can learn from. The main objective is to make us all safer. We no longer limit discussions to purely diving incidents, just those that divers can learn from.
2. To that end, we have merged the Near Misses & Lessons Learned forum with the Accidents & Incidents forum and renamed it to Accidents, Incidents, & Near Misses.
3. We added mandatory Thread Prefixes, commonly called title flags, to help readers find threads of interest.

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A more detailed description is provided for the brief Thread Prefix that you select:

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Note that ScubaBoard’s Advanced Search function can be used to locate Thread Prefix flags.

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[DandyDon]

We no longer limit discussions to purely diving incidents, just those that divers can learn from.

That'll leave it open to almost anything.

 

[Akimbo]

That'll leave it open to almost anything.

Is that a bad thing as long as it meets this criteria?

Discuss incidents that are near, on, or under the water that divers can learn from. The main objective is to make us all safer.

For example, there isn't much divers can learn from a story of a cruise ship passenger that disappears and is never seen again. The same for a container ship crewman that is crushed by shifting cargo or an injured sailor on an aircraft carrier.