Safety Flash
Near-miss: Fault spotted in subsea lifting wire
Near-miss: Fault spotted in subsea lifting wire
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 15/17
- Crane and RiggingDivingInspection and Maintenance
- Structural and asset integrity
- Diving operationsInspection and maintenance
- Wire rope
- Functional testingPre-use checks
- Subsea
Summary
A diving team identified strand protrusion in a launch and recovery system clump weight wire during operations at 10 msw; no broken strand was confirmed. The flash recommends frequent monitoring, inspection before each dive, immediate defect reporting, appropriate load testing after changes and removal or disposal of affected rope.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Diving operations; diving; commercial diving.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Wire rope; steel wire rope.
Classifications: Functional testing; function test.
Classifications: Pre-use checks; pre-use inspection.
Classifications: Subsea; underwater worksite.
Summary
During diving operations at 10 msw, it was noticed that there was a slight gap in the lay of the diver launch and recovery (LARS) clump weight wire.
IMCA SF 15/17. Themes: crane and rigging, diving, inspection and maintenance.