The author urges divers to use operational risk management to deal with the risks related to an operation. U.S. Navy divers work together to recover victims and debris from the crash site of Swiss Air Flight 111. They prepare for all the usual risks involved, as well as one unexpected problem.
Some junior officers learn a lesson about getting too anxious for liberty call.
A Coast Guard seaman aboard an offshore buoy tender gets hit in the head while deploying a 5.5-ton buoy. An EW2 fills his one arm to capacity and uses the other to climb a vertical ladder. He falls when he reaches the top and suffers numerous injuries. In the process, he also learns some important lessons about the dangers of heavy seas. Although you hope you never need your magazine-sprinkler system for an actual emergency, you can't afford to ignore maintenance on the system.