A study of instructor’s risk management for recreational scuba diving / 潛水教練對遊憩水肺潛水風險管理之研究

碩士 / 國立臺東大學 / 體育學系碩士班 / 94 / Safety is first concern when we join scuba diving. The risk management becomes the key during scuba diving journey in Taiwan. The purpose of research was to investigate how diving instructors handled risk management by using in-depth semi-structured interviews of qualitative research and assisted by documentary analysis. After case-cross analysis, the findings of this study were as follow:

1. For instructors, environment risk could be controlled by weather forecast and diving plan. The most dangerous risk was to face cocky divers.

2. The best effective self management to instructors was to take advanced and professional training not only for themselves but for divers as well. The external management included divers, equipments, and boat. When facing new divers, instructors used different ways to assess their ability. Meantime, they usually asked divers to have own equipments and re-check before on board for safety purpose. However, instructors could not help to give up boat management due to profit of ship owners, it was beyond their control.

3. Instructors used risk management strategies in different situations. Due to benefit concern, they took risk retention strategy to accept new divers and re-arrange other instructors at the same time. To sign responsible release or medical treatment agreement was fix procedure for risk avoid in diving field. The different views to insurance showed that instructors were not familiar for risk transfer strategy. To reduce risk need methods to solve out. Instructors expressed their suggestion to government including boat regulation setting, relative businessmen assessment and urgent treatment supporting to prevent risk from happening or worse.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/094NTTTC567005
Date January 2006
CreatorsWang, Ying, 王瑛
ContributorsChou, Tsai-Sheng, 周財勝
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format92

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