초록 열기/닫기 버튼
The present study was conducted to provide baseline data for understanding commercial divers fatalities between difference work categories, diving methods and cause of death by identifying the basic structure such life threaten accident. Recently, we have experienced many fatal accidents at the commercial diving activity involving with SCUBA and surface supplied diving systems such as hookah divers or full face mask divers. Since year 2010 to 2019, we have 60 diving fatalities in Korea. divided into shellfish diving 14 death, propeller debris removal 12 death, ship husbandry diving 11 death, and other category 17 death such as relating with civil engineering, construction or installation, power plant water intake maintenance etc. The equipment used were SCUBA 11 cases and hookah 30 cases were the predominant, 5 cases of full face mask and 1 case of KMB band mask. The major cause of death were varied such as the crashing by propeller 6, lack of gas or CO contamination 8, differential pressure delta P 4, DCI 5 & cardiac arrest 2, fouled 4 and 3 for others, many of 28 cases was not able to identify.
