Hello, and welcome to Scuba Diving Industry Magazine’s new column, to which I’ve been fortunate to be invited to contribute on a regular basis. Diving has an impressive comparative-safety record, it is inherently a risky activity, with there being no possibility of eliminating all the risk or reducing that risk to zero. Fortunately, as the dive community has proven over the decades, through well-developed standards of practice, careful attention to procedures, and an overriding sense of awareness as to the utter importance of dive safety, diving’s safety record is actually quite impressive when compared to many other outdoor activities. This is critical, not only to the continued survival of the industry, but, even more importantly, to the overall health and well-being of both our consumer constituents and our industry’s working professionals… Click here to read the full article!
Dive Risk Management Part 1: Essential Strategies for Safety – Al Hornsby