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Forum: Incident Reporting and Analysis Project (IRAP)

Incident Reporting and Analysis Project (IRAP). This forum is to record cave diving incidents. Learning from others mistakes and experiences can help prevent future incidents and accidents.

Forum: Incident Reporting and Analysis Project (IRAP)

  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Welcome! Incident Reporting and Analysis Project - IRAP

    The cave diving community has a long history of accident analysis that has been the primary force shaping the training programs in place today. This...

    Started by IRAP Administrator, 08-03-2007 09:53 PM
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    08-03-2007 09:53 PM Go to last post
  1. Unusual OOA

    I had an interesting discussion with someone about the merits of allowing training dives to extend to thirds or just planning shorter dives with...

    Started by JerseyJersey, 01-17-2012 05:33 PM
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  2. Uncontrolled breathing and mask squeeze at JB.

    I am posting this in the hope someone will learn from my mistake and maybe have some insight on what happened to me. I was at JB on Saturday on my...

    Started by jcook, 01-15-2012 08:30 PM
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    01-16-2012 09:11 PM Go to last post
  3. Power inflator malfunction

    Does anyone know what could cause a power inflator to suddenly inflate without being pressed?

    Started by speleocrone, 01-04-2012 02:17 AM
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    01-10-2012 05:37 PM Go to last post
  4. Pee Valve Problems

    When I first started diving dry suits in the early 80's the pee valve had no been invented, or I had never heard of them. I got back into cave diving...

    Started by gasdiver, 08-08-2011 04:58 PM
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    12-14-2011 10:35 AM Go to last post
  5. Little River - Out of Breath

    The plan was to swim to the Florida Room via the Merry-Go-Round tunnel (right at the T), then check out the large cracks in the ceiling of the...

    Started by IRAP Administrator, 12-12-2011 07:54 PM
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    12-14-2011 06:00 AM Go to last post
  6. Fin failure

    When I was training, I thought the swim out with one fin drill to be humorous. A lesson in futility and practice in task loading at best. Not so...

    Started by JerseyJersey, 11-06-2011 10:24 AM
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    11-07-2011 07:03 PM Go to last post
  7. Coincidence?

    Could this also be co poisoning? Mine was the last post suggesting it be checked since it was in Cozumel. Posted here at request of Shirley. If in...

    Started by Spd 135, 10-20-2011 02:55 PM
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    10-20-2011 05:40 PM Go to last post
  8. Lost Buddy Silt-out

    Steve from Kentucky pm'd and we arranged a dive for today, monday. I was out checking conditions a few days ago and the water looked clear. Today...

    Started by skip, 10-11-2011 08:52 AM
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    10-14-2011 05:45 PM Go to last post
  9. Crying when your body is telling you to stay out of the water.

    So I have been diving for years and dive in the military aswell. I love cave diving and have the good. fourtune to dive a couple times a week. I am...

    Started by adam0321, 06-18-2011 03:29 AM
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    09-23-2011 10:48 AM Go to last post
  10. My Adventure with type2 Decompression Illness

    Eagles Nest 5/12/2011 It was a dive I have done several times before, swim the upstream tunnel to the back of the super room, turn around near the...

    Started by curator, 06-12-2011 09:16 PM
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    07-23-2011 01:35 PM Go to last post
  11. The infamous three way air share

    Ok, forgive me, this is quite a few years old now, but I have always found the story funny and completely unique, so I will pass it on in case...

    Started by rchrds, 05-23-2011 06:14 AM
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    05-24-2011 05:11 PM Go to last post
  12. 2nd Stage Swivel Failure/airshare

    C and I were diving in a project cave in Tennesse, where the visibility is normally in the 6 foot range. Our plan for the dive was to continue the...

    Started by rchrds, 05-23-2011 05:39 AM
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    05-24-2011 09:28 AM Go to last post
  13. Go around the bend and hang a right

    A few years back, SL and I were doing a few dives in Peacock III. Before one such dive we had been told the "old gold line" was a cool dive if we...

    Started by icestac, 05-23-2011 12:30 PM
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    05-23-2011 06:28 PM Go to last post
  14. Too tired, and too many divers

    Last November, four of us signed up for a day of guided diving at a shallow system in MX. All of us were Full Cave, and three of the four had...

    Started by LCF, 05-23-2011 12:19 AM
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    05-23-2011 11:30 AM Go to last post
  15. Lightening zap on the Hill 400 at Ginnie

    This is actually an old incident, but a member found it in the old dive reports, and it would have been put here back then, if this forum had been...

    Started by FW, 04-21-2011 10:57 AM
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    04-25-2011 12:51 PM Go to last post
  16. Ill during a dive

    Early one morning my buddy and I were getting ready to make a long swim at Peacock. We decided to eat breakfast after the dive. While we were getting...

    Started by benjamin, 01-15-2011 09:24 PM
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    03-07-2011 03:03 PM Go to last post
  17. Phantom Incident

    by perryL927 (http://www.cavediver.net/forum/entry.php/member.php/977-perryL927) on 12-26-2010 at 09:19 PM My dive buddy and I were...

    Started by FW, 01-13-2011 09:24 AM
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    03-01-2011 12:58 PM Go to last post
  18. 2nd-stage swivel failure in Cenote Cristalino, Mexico - 06-Nov-2010

    I started diving just over 2 years ago on 26-Aug-2008. Today, 06-Nov-2010, was my 353rd dive, 41st since 26-Aug (year anniversary), and 95th of 2010....

    Started by whodunit68, 11-06-2010 08:36 PM
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    02-28-2011 02:28 PM Go to last post
  19. Jill's lessons learned continue

    Lesson Six: Training versus Experience (http://www.rebreatherpro.com) The lessons learned from the worst cave dive of my life, continued. Jill...

    Started by RebreatherPro.com, 01-21-2011 09:55 AM
    cave diver, cave diving, incidents, jill heinerth
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    01-21-2011 10:02 AM Go to last post
  20. A Bad Day Cave Diving - Otter Springs

    An account of an incident I had on Jan. 17, 2011 during a scientific dive at Otter Springs, in Gilchrist County, Florida. Lessons learned on a dive I...

    Started by RebreatherPro.com, 01-19-2011 10:14 AM
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    01-20-2011 11:22 PM Go to last post
 

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