A Study on Risk Management of Technical Diving in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Kao, Ming-chen, 高銘辰
• Other Authors: Chang, Hung-Liang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51012947107308318706

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 體育學系碩士班 === 100 === The purpose of the study was to explore the current conditions of technical diving and its risk management in Taiwan. The purpose and questions of the study was determined by records analysis and the technical diving instructors’ preliminary. An interview outline was created for six technical instructors by semi-structured in-depth interview. Findings of this study were as follows: 1.Technical Diving’s Current Conditions in Taiwan (1) Purposes of technical diving were: to enlarge recreational diving’s area in order to extend the depth and time for diving; to dive in different environment; to expand professional diving equipment, mixed gases and dive technique. (2) Type of technical diving were: engaging in decompression procedures dive, mixed gases dive, rebreather equipment dive and overhead environments dive such as cave diving and wreck diving. However, in Taiwan, there were no caves. People can engage in wreck dive. Only few people can join because the licenses were not easy to get. (3) Environments and areas of technical dive were: Taiwan’s northeast coast, east coast, southeast coast and Kenting coast. These places were usually chosen because of convenience, safety and variety. Some of off-shore islands such as Green Island and Lanyu are also chosen for diving. 2. Technical Diving Risk Management in Taiwan (1) Risk perception: Technical diving’s risks were higher than recreational diving, so its management measures were stricter than recreational diving. Therefore, technical diving’s probability of risk was lower than recreational diving due to its precautions. (2) Risk assessment: When a technical diver was in danger, it was often caused by man-made factors due to management measures’ negligence. (3) Risk management measures: The risk of technical diving can be lowered by management measures which can be divided into self- supervising and external supervising. Self- supervising includes the ratio of mixed gases, being well-prepared and safe equipment and knowing how to deal with broken equipment; external supervising includes coordination between partner and shipman and environment management measures. (4) Risk management strategy: it can be divided into to four parts: a. Risk-taking: the divers were not forced to dive, so they take responsibilities for themselves instead of their instructors or the one who offers the equipments to them. b. Risk-avoidance: the instructors or the one who offers the equipments can do risk-avoidance; however, the divers themselves can’t do it. c. Risk-transference: risk was transferred by insurance such as dive organization, traveling safety and global dive insurance. d. Risk-reduction: risk was reduced by laws and decrees, procedures and dive medical equipment. The laws and decrees and dive medical equipment were not up to par in Taiwan, so they should be improved.