Diving incident reports
Diving incident reports
Diving incident reports should be on the reading list of any diver, professional or otherwise. They highlight the types of situations that commonly lead to accidents and help to identify chains of events that make situations worse, such as buddy separation. However, it’s not easy to draw any lessons from incidents because understanding the decision-making processes that led up to the event is not always clear.
It’s very easy to say “They shouldn’t have done this”, or “I would never have done that”. None of that helps to identify systemic failures and prevent future incidents from occurring.
The DAN and BSAC reports are as detailed as they can be with the information given. It clearly takes a lot of work to produce these reports so hats off to both organisations for continuing to do them.
If you know of other sources related to diving incidents, I’d be grateful if you could let me know.
BSAC diving incident reports
If you have any trouble downloading the below reports, you can visit the BSAC page for dive incident reports here.
Diving incident report 2022- BSAC
Diving incident report 2021- BSAC
Diving incident report 2020- BSAC
Diving incident report 2019- BSAC
Diving incident report 2018- BSAC
Diving incident report 2017- BSAC
Diving incident report 2016- BSAC
Diving incident report 2015- BSAC
Diving incident report 2014- BSAC
Divers Alert Network incident reports
Annual diving report 2020- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2019- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2018- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2017- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2016- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2012-2015- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2011- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2010- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2009- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2008- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2007- Divers Alert Network
Annual diving report 2006- Divers Alert Network
Medical examination of diving fatalities- DAN and UHMS
Technical diving conference proceedings 2009- Divers Alert Network
