Hickdive
Contributor
The BSAC Incidents Report is published annually and covers incidents in UK water and abroad involving BSAC members and non-members. It uses a variety if sources including direct reporting, media reports and reports from the rescue services. The reporting year runs from October to October each year with the report issued in May; so incident and fatality totals for any given reporting year are at most six months behind.
The report breaks down information in a number of ways including incidents per month. There is traditionally a crop of incidents/fatalities in Apr/May which seem to correlate to the start of the "diving season" in the Northern Hemisphere.
So there is definitely an alternative to DAN for diving incident statistics and there is definitely an identifiable need, based on those stats, for people who have been laid off diving over winter to refresh skills, service and maintain equipment.
The report breaks down information in a number of ways including incidents per month. There is traditionally a crop of incidents/fatalities in Apr/May which seem to correlate to the start of the "diving season" in the Northern Hemisphere.
So there is definitely an alternative to DAN for diving incident statistics and there is definitely an identifiable need, based on those stats, for people who have been laid off diving over winter to refresh skills, service and maintain equipment.