Manuals & documents
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The documents featured in this section are available to the public free
of charge. However, they remain protected by copyright. Consequently,
individuals utilizing them may reproduce them in their entirety or in
part for use in manuals, studies, or reports as long as proper
recognition is given to the copyrights and the authors' names are cited.
For convenience, the records have been organized in chronological
order according to their main topics. Nonetheless, supplementary
research tools like the below search engine and further categorization
by sub-topics in some sections are available to streamline your search.
Additionally, it is essential to note that the most recently added
documents can be found in dedicated sections on the homepage.
Documents Diving & ROV Specialists
The handbooks "Diving & ROV Specialists" and Diving Studies CCO Ltd.
are based on scientific and technical documents stored in the various
sections mentioned on this homepage. The topics covered include
diving systems, the implementation of diving procedures, drug abuse
policy implementation, lifting procedures, and more. These studies
exist solely and explicitly to present guidelines that we consider
relevant to commercial diving. The method used to write them is to
analyze all available references for a given topic and select the most
appropriate one. Thus, they can be used as components of company
manuals or as references.
Click the button below to access the folder where they are stored to
read and download them.
Diving & ROV procedures and standards
This section provides currently enforced diving standards and
guidelines adopted by national bodies or published by professional
organizations. It also includes procedures published by highly skilled
independent authors that can serve as references. Links are provided
to organizations that publish paid documents frequently used or
imposed on contractors.
Note that we believe that every standard or norm imposed on
contractors should be available free of charge.
Historical diving
This section groups diving standards and guidelines that national
bodies adopted or professional organizations published, but they are no
longer in force because new versions replaced them.
They have been separated from the documents currently in use to
avoid confusion.
Keeping obsolete documents in a database is essential because they
can serve as references for analyzing the evolution of standards or
guidelines. These documents, of which the oldest available in the
database is the report made to the British Admiralty in 1907 to
implement the first diving tables, studied by Haldane et al., constitute
our collective memory and should not be ignored.
The “Index for Document Research” provides
a complementary document selection
method to the chronological lists above and
our search engine by classifying the
documents indexed in our scientific database
by subtopics.
Note that papers discussing subjects with
implications for several sub-topics are listed
in each classification.
Click on the picture to open it.
Scientific papers
This section provides scientific documents published from the
beginning of the diving industry to the present day. The studies are
classified by year of publication, enabling a researcher to follow the
evolution of research on a topic from the earliest to the latest study.
Scientific documents are essential as they form the basis on which
diving manuals should be written. Diving procedures are written to
manage physiological phenomena, not the other way around.
Therefore, every diving manual or guideline should refer to scientific
studies. This is our approach when writing documents. You can access
the scientific paper database by clicking the button provided below.
However, note that the "Index for Document Research" described
underneath allows you to search for documents using subtopic
classification.
The search engine allows finding
documents using names & keywords.
Studies of ROV and AUV concepts
This section gives access to engineering studies of ROV (Remotely
Operated Vehicules) and AUV (Autonomus Underwater Vehicles)
concepts.
These documents come from scientists, universities, and ROV
manufacturers. Thus, they can be considered as scientific studies.
The industry has adopted some proposed solutions, and others will be
adopted later or forgotten. Whatever has happened and will happen, it
is interesting to read them. They are classified according to the years
of publication.
You can access the database by clicking the button provided below.
United Nations conventions & national laws
This section links to publications from specialized agencies of the
United Nations, such as the International Maritime Organization (IMO)
or the International Labour Organization (ILO), in addition to maritime
and labour laws published by countries.
Awareness of and understanding of publications from the United
Nations and states is essential for people organizing underwater
operations. Please note that we provide tools to access some United
Nations databases easily.
Click on the button below to open this section.
Technical documents - Vessels
This section provides publications that discuss vessel design,
maintenance, and management rules. This includes guidelines from
the US Navy, classification societies, states, and professional
organizations, as well as documents from vessel designers and
various engineering studies.
The button below opens our database, where such papers are
classified chronologically.
Technical documents - Diving systems
This section links to publications that discuss rules for conceiving,
constructing, and maintaining diving systems. Documents published by
the US Navy, manufacturers, and classification societies are
chronologically stored in our database, which can be opened by
clicking the button below.
Underwater construction
This section provides descriptions of offshore, harbour, port, and river
facilities, such as platforms, floating structures, seabed oil and gas
structures, wind turbines, tide turbines, and many others, in addition to
methods for installing and maintaining them. These documents are
sourced from manufacturers, engineering offices, national and
international bodies, etc. They are classified by year of publication.
The database can be accessed by clicking the button below.
Non Destructive Techniques (NDT)
This section links to publications discussing non-destructive
techniques (NDT) applicable underwater and at the surface, as we
must remember that such procedures are also used during
mobilizations. Documents from various organizations, including the UK
HSE and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), are provided
to help readers understand the methods employed based on their
technical level. They are classified by year of publication, and the
database in which they are stored can be accessed by clicking the
button below.
Underwater mapping
This section provides publications that discuss methods and tools
for designing 2D and 3D maps and positioning job sites, vessels,
underwater vehicles, and divers on these maps.
Note that the progress of the industry results in autonomous
underwater vehicles (AUVs) often being used to establish maps and
locate targets. Therefore, some of the documents available in this
section could be considered AUV procedures.
Click on the button below to access these papers.
First aid
This section provides articles and books related to first aid procedures
during underwater operations and in any work facility. These
documents include manuals from official bodies and reports from
doctors and emergency teams. Some are directly linked to products
presented in the "Medical Equipment" subsection of "Logistics" (see the
navigation bar).
You can consult and download these documents by clicking the button
below.
Videos and animations
The videos and animations in this section are published by companies
that produce or install equipment, national bodies, and professional
organizations. They can be used to illustrate courses, studies, and
reports. They are grouped into three sub-sections that can be opened
through the button below:
1 - Lifting systems and winches,
2 - Renewable energies systems.
3 - Marine and ROV systems, and diving equipment.
Environmental studies
Environmental studies is a complex and interdisciplinary academic
field that delves into the intricate interactions between humans and
their environment. This field integrates principles from diverse areas
such as physical sciences, philosophy, sociology, law, and economics,
among others. This section focuses on studies that analyze the impact
of industrial and underwater activities on rivers, lakes, and the marine
ecosystem.
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