The Unrestricted Air Diving Supervisor program will provide the necessary theory competencies and practical sham exercises to allow for application for certification by the Diver Certification Board of Canada. The program is 5 days in length and will be held at Seneca College - King City campus from December 15 - 18th, 2008. Spaces are limited. Cost is $650.00. For further information, please contact Dave Geddes at (416) 491-5050 ext. 5020 or e-mail at dave.geddes@senecac.on.ca .

The Underwater Welding program is a 5 day program allowing for 4 days of practice and instruction and the final day for testing by the Canadian Welding Bureau. Candidates will test for the CWB certification in; vertical down, plate and fillet certification or CWB overhead, plate and fillet certification. Certification are issued by the CWB and are witnesses to the AWS (American Welding Society) D3.6 specification for underwater welding. Cost is $1100.00. Class size is limited to 8 divers.
For further information, please contact Mike Borean at (416) 491-5050 ext. 5023 or e-mail at mike.borean@senecac.on.ca .

Anyone interested in a Offshore Air Diver Supervisor "top up" program please contact; Dave Geddes at (416) 491-5050 ext. 5020 or e-mail at dave.geddes@senecac.on.ca .

The website "MyBubbleBuddies.com" has shown that in the last week, it has world wide appeal for professional and recreational divers. As indicated on its "maps" section, divers from all over the world have logged into and joined the underwater networking site. Webmaster Doug Elsey said, "The world wide appeal of the site is confirming that we all face the same universal problem in working and  "playing" with a waterline over our heads. The problems (and solutions) are the same in Indonesia as they are in the Canadian / US Great Lakes. None of this is totally unique other than some water tastes salty or is hotter or colder. Same stuff - same problems. I am happy at the acceptance that the underwater community has shown in this site". More information and blogs, forums, etc. are at http://www.MyBubbleBuddies.com.

In 1969, deep-sea divers began drilling in the North Sea; nearly 40 years later, they're still paying for it."It's not like the government has been sitting on secret findings," says Reusch, the government lawyer.When Norway discovered oil in 1969, petroleum had never been pumped from such depths. Divers were paid as much as $550 a day, 10 times what able seamen made, to help bring it to the surface. But what were and are the long term effects. Read more on the link .....

MyBubbleBuddies.com™ - a networking site similar in nature to FaceBook™ and MySpace™- was launched today. It is a serious site with a light hearted name for those involved in the profession and sport of underwater work, adventure and exploration. It is a place for networking underwater folks of any type – from hard core tech divers to commercial divers to sport/rec divers. There is even a section for SARTECH / Public service divers and free divers to gather. The site is for anyone with the common interest and experience - the people who venture below the waterline - anywhere!

(For those not familiar with networking sites, they are websites specifically for networking and linking those with common interests. For instance, if you are a friend of “Mike Nelson” and “Mike Nelson” is a friend of “Minney-the-Mermaid”, then you are indirectly a new friend of “Minney-the-mermaid” (and her BOYfriend “DepthCrusher”!) Or if you are a commercial diver who knows someone who has a friend working at your dream dive company, then you now have a connection into that company because a link is formed.)

 Site owner Doug Elsey- a life long undersea dweller (also with UnderwaterINDUSTRY and UnderwaterJOBS) said, “Having been involved in the diving industry for over 40 years - both as a sport and professionally - the one common thread in all of the diving community that I have noticed is the camaraderie of the participants. They are a close knit group of adventurers and explorers in sport, professional and military divers.”

 “I spent some time looking around for internet gathering places of sorts and found everything from forums to blogs to individual web places. Facebook™ had groups and MySpace™ had groups within major social groups but there appeared to be no one, single place that tied it all together. So, I decided to have a go at putting something that was similar to the community building web spaces at FaceBook™ and MySpace™ but for underwater people only - a place to network, discuss and trade yarns, tips and tricks amongst the underwater community.”

The site has unique and advanced features such as the inclusion of underwater videos, photo galleries, discussion groups (with the ability to form your own public or private groups), instant messaging, adding friends, location maps, and on and on and on. It is very comprehensive and fulfils the need to network underwater participants.

Go to http://www.MyBubbleBuddies.com and sign up (FREE!!) to share your passion – and connect with others below the waterline!

Divers from Sea-Force Diving have been hired as part of the latest phase of construction on the St.John’s Harbour sewage treatment system. They are working underwater bolting together sections of pre-stressed concrete pipe.

OTTAWA, March 28 -Afghanistan 
is 587 miles from the nearest port.
It is not the sort of place one would
expect to find a Canadian sailor. Yet for the past 
two years, Canadian Navy clearance divers have been in the 
region, applying their expertise in underwater demolition to 
combat one of the Taliban's favorite weapons, improvised 
explosive devices.
(Ed Note: I have worked many times with these divers 
from Canada and other NATOcountries in the past. 
They are a dedicated, hard working and courageous 
bunch. Well done!)     

NEW YORK (AP) By COLLEEN LONG
— The divers live in a windowless, pressurized chamber for weeks at a time. They descend 700 feet — greater than the height of the Space Needle — to toil for 12-hour shifts in dark, murky water.
Then there's the helium they have to breathe to survive at such depths. Their voices are so high support crews need to use a special recording device to translate.
What's the point of this bizarre subterranean life? Coming up with a way to save drinking water for New York City, which is losing the equivalent of a small lake every day in an enormous, aging, leaky tunnel.
About half the city's water supply passes through the tunnel from upstate reservoirs. Of the hundreds of millions of gallons that flow there every day, some 10 million to 36 million escape from cracks in a 45-mile stretch. Not only is it a waste, the leaks create sinkholes and other problems at the surface.
.....ED NOTE: CADC member ASI (Aquatic Sciences) based in St. Catherines has a contract to inspect this system using ROV later on this year (beginning of next.)

An explosion aboard a Dive Support Vessel (DSV) has injured six members of a divers' support team working on a pipeline project in the Gulf of Mexico. A seventh member of the crew was reported to be missing, said the US Coast Guard.

Coast Guard helicopters took the injured crew members to hospitals in Lafayette and Houma after Tuesday night's explosion on the vessel, which took place about 15 miles south of Marsh Island in Iberia Parish.

According to Chet Morrison, CEO of Chet Morrison Contractors, the explosion apparently occurred in the engine room of the 150ft DSV Jillian Morrison.

Toronto - Feb 1 , 2008; Bob Landry, Managing Director of Canadian Workplace Safety Inc. has been awarded the prestigious “GEM” Lifetime Achievement Award by the Ontario Ministry of Labour.
Lifetime Achievement honours an individual whose professional accomplishments and character have made a significant and lasting impact at The Ministry of Labour.
For 25 years, Bob has cast a watchful eye on the commercial diving industry of Ontario. As a licensed professional, he worked in the private sector, and saw many unfortunate accidents caused by slipshod work practices and cutting corners.
Bob wanted to make a difference, so 25 years ago he joined the Ministry of Labour, as a Diving Inspector, and was instrumental in the early contributions that created the Ontario Diving regulation in its present form today.
During his MOL years Bob oversaw the ministry's growing diving inspectorate staff and their training, and was involved in many investigations into commercial diving accidents. He also provided advice that led to the provincial government's amending the diving regulation several times.
As Bob progressed in his career, he began to mentor his peers and he developed training for inspectors. As one of only three diving inspectors in the province, Bob took a natural leadership role, and was instrumental in the creation of a sector specific Diving trade group within the Provincial Labour Management network.
Bob also developed cooperative linkages within the diving industry including the OPP and other police diving forces, and stakeholders in the construction and industrial diving industry.