michael Friesen
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If we look at the history of this law,
The original coroner report in 1991 offered 16 recomendations which were issued to the QC diving schools and the government , in summary here they are (diving school ones are higlighted):
- OW course is 40 hours minimum, with specific instruction, drysuit instruction,
-minimum of 10 dives before moving on to another course
-that your PADI,CMAS, ect. card has a 3 year expiry date requiring you to prove that you have accomplished 10 dives in those years.
-dive log be mandatory as well as a photo ID
-hyperbaric doctors be trained
- dive sites are equipped with appropriate signage (I dont know what this means)
- A diving club should be created (have divers talk to each other, dive together, ect. (safety in numbers kind of thing))
- Air quality be regulated
-that instructor training be revised and monitored (due to 9 deaths during a certification) (THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT)
- and 3 more doctor recommendation stuff that is unimportant.
everything pertaining to dive schools were only recommendations, no law was applied here.
In 1995 a second coroner report came out which studied another 12 deaths. In this report the coroner notes that almost everything in black above has been accomplished or was in the process of being accomplished. However alot of the stuff requiring work in the dive schools were not even tried. so the coroner made recommendations directly to the government this time:
-To regulate dive schools, instructors, and acquisition of dive certification.
-To have a second certification for instructors as to make sure that they are well certified for the job.
-+ further recommendations towards courses( minimal age be 16, maximum amount of student per instructor, ect) (most of these didnt pass.)
And so a law was accepted in government in 1997, and in 2002 the certification that we are talking about in the past posts started.
The original coroner report in 1991 offered 16 recomendations which were issued to the QC diving schools and the government , in summary here they are (diving school ones are higlighted):
- OW course is 40 hours minimum, with specific instruction, drysuit instruction,
-minimum of 10 dives before moving on to another course
-that your PADI,CMAS, ect. card has a 3 year expiry date requiring you to prove that you have accomplished 10 dives in those years.
-dive log be mandatory as well as a photo ID
-hyperbaric doctors be trained
- dive sites are equipped with appropriate signage (I dont know what this means)
- A diving club should be created (have divers talk to each other, dive together, ect. (safety in numbers kind of thing))
- Air quality be regulated
-that instructor training be revised and monitored (due to 9 deaths during a certification) (THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT)
- and 3 more doctor recommendation stuff that is unimportant.
everything pertaining to dive schools were only recommendations, no law was applied here.
In 1995 a second coroner report came out which studied another 12 deaths. In this report the coroner notes that almost everything in black above has been accomplished or was in the process of being accomplished. However alot of the stuff requiring work in the dive schools were not even tried. so the coroner made recommendations directly to the government this time:
-To regulate dive schools, instructors, and acquisition of dive certification.
-To have a second certification for instructors as to make sure that they are well certified for the job.
-+ further recommendations towards courses( minimal age be 16, maximum amount of student per instructor, ect) (most of these didnt pass.)
And so a law was accepted in government in 1997, and in 2002 the certification that we are talking about in the past posts started.
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