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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 08:53 PM
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    IRAP Administrator
    08-03-2007 08:53 PM Go to last post

  1. Details from Ginnie recovery 1/22/21 x

    So I am simply copying and pasting the facts as they were told to me by someone involved who asked that I share some details. The point of the ...

    Started by rddvet, 01-23-2021 07:51 AM
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    rddvet
    01-12-2023 02:28 PM Go to last post

  2. Double drowning in Buford Spring.

    Anyone have any updates? One diver recovered, the other not as of posting of newspaper article. Sounds like novice divers, there's really no place...

    Started by phreaticus53, 06-23-2022 05:25 AM
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    lord1234
    06-28-2022 01:46 PM Go to last post

  3. Any news from Ginnie today?

    I just got bad news about Gennie today, any news?

    Started by Barebottom, 01-21-2021 08:07 PM
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    Terry D
    03-27-2021 08:32 AM Go to last post

  4. Blown ear drum

    Have been reading through many of the posts and thought I'd share an event that happened circa 1995. Full cave class with my friend and dive...

    Started by sdalcher, 01-27-2021 11:52 AM
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    sdalcher
    01-28-2021 04:30 PM Go to last post

  5. "The cave divers who went back for their friends"

    An interesting (but sad) article on a multiple accident dive in Norway and the recovery of the two lost divers by their friends. I just found...

    Started by DKKearns, 01-22-2019 10:55 AM
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    sdalcher
    01-26-2021 11:49 AM Go to last post

  6. Not able to breathe during a cave dive

    Several of us were diving Cannonball cave in Missouri. I had stuck my gloves in a pocket, because the lake is warm, so you don't need them until...

    Started by FW, 09-25-2017 09:45 AM
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    cavemark
    02-01-2020 08:53 PM Go to last post

  7. Cave diver dies in Thailand

    https://divernet.com/2019/12/22/british-cave-diver-dies-in-thailand/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

    Started by Diverlee, 12-23-2019 06:20 AM
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    ThaiCaveDiver
    12-27-2019 05:02 PM Go to last post

  8. Loss of Gas at Max Penetration

    Over the years I have heard that if a failure is going to occur it will probably be towards the beginning of a dive. Today that was not the case. My...

    Started by CHartmann, 06-17-2018 04:03 PM
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    twaldo
    07-23-2018 10:43 PM Go to last post

  9. Wrong reflex under workload

    Hello, here is a little incident that happened recently. Little River in sidemount with one stage (same mix), primary light in left hand and...

    Started by pascal, 06-21-2018 02:41 PM
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    cavekrazi
    06-22-2018 08:31 PM Go to last post

  10. Lost In Little River

    I know, the title sounds impossible but here we go... I thought I might make it a month without incident but oh well. Our team of three (all...

    Started by Dominick Gheesling, 06-11-2018 11:39 AM
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    awareness, little river, navigation
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    WEPIV
    06-20-2018 11:43 AM Go to last post

  11. getting bent lessons learned

    So this occurred a few months ago, but nonetheless is still relevant. So to start i did analyze my tanks, everything from the O2 to the back gas as...

    Started by jdobbertien, 06-10-2018 11:16 AM
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    Head Back!
    06-13-2018 03:58 PM Go to last post

  12. On the value of just stopping, or how I almost didn't swim out today.

    Not really sure how to share this but today turned into a really bad day of diving. The day started out pretty well. I was scheduled to meet...

    Started by jerrwhy01, 04-05-2018 05:44 PM
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    rddvet
    04-18-2018 08:17 PM Go to last post

  13. Here I am again, or Cow Spring Take 2

    So, for a little context less than seven days ago I dove Cow Springs with an extremely experienced cave diver leading the dive and it was an amazing...

    Started by Dominick Gheesling, 04-15-2018 06:38 PM
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    TONY CHANEY
    04-18-2018 07:02 PM Go to last post

  14. When your old Tekna Scooter becomes an improvised explosive device.

    I am currently out of diving while I recover from a shoulder operation so I haven't been posting much so imagine my surprise that I'd have something...

    Started by MichaelAngelo, 12-26-2017 07:11 PM
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    dogwatch
    01-02-2018 01:29 PM Go to last post

  15. HP hose failure at max penetrartion

    I thought I would do a write up on an incident I had this weekend at Ginnie. It is a very minor incident, one probably many people have had, but...

    Started by rddvet, 08-21-2017 10:02 AM
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    Webmaster
    08-27-2017 12:00 PM Go to last post

  16. BBC Write Up of Mallorca Incident and Rescue

    http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-40558067

    Started by BigTex1836, 07-17-2017 08:35 AM
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    gianaameri
    08-14-2017 09:14 AM Go to last post

  17. Failure to ask the right questions.

    A lady I know wanted to make a dive. She had learned to dive in Missouri, probably before the advent of gold line. She said she was a "trained cave...

    Started by IRAP Administrator, 12-14-2016 08:52 AM
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    shellmoundal
    01-22-2017 09:04 AM Go to last post

  18. Lost on deco

    I got lost while on an extended decompression stop at 60 feet. It was the second time I was ever at this place. Visibility was very poor, maybe 2...

    Started by IRAP Administrator, 12-08-2016 07:31 AM
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    IRAP Administrator
    12-08-2016 07:31 AM Go to last post

  19. A great dive that went bad really quickly

    A few weeks ago I was coming out of a cave and noticed a lead with flow coming out of it. I tied in and ran 100' of line or so. I could see that it...

    Started by bamafan, 03-08-2015 09:17 PM
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    cavedivingwoman
    06-29-2016 09:12 PM Go to last post

  20. My Experience with DCS

    Did a 123 min dive, deepest depth 99 ft. Rebreather PPO2 set point was 1.2, using a 24/20 Trimix. Did decompression with a PPO2 of 1.52. Even stayed...

    Started by tstormdiver, 04-17-2016 11:29 PM
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    victorzamora
    04-22-2016 10:29 AM Go to last post
 

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