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Not-So-Smooth Sailing: Handling Potential Hazards on the High Seas

EDITOR’S NOTE: Divers Alert Network (DAN) recently introduced a Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) program to the industry. The new program will include educational material, business analysis tools, training and marketing opportunities designed to create a new standard of…

Reilly FogartyMay 4, 2021

Legal Management

Scared out Of the Water: What Happens After the Unthinkable Happens

Editor's note: As an attorney who has been involved in the scuba industry since 1986, I've had some occasion to work with some highly skilled dive industry lawyers. I've had a front-row seat in scuba-related litigation and I can attest…

David Concannon EsqSeptember 25, 2014

Insurance Legal Management Operations

Keeping Up with the Jones Act: Beneath the Law’s Waters Swims a Great White Shark Of a Problem for Unaware Dive Boat Operators – Article 1.

Editor's note: Have you heard of the Jones Act? Do you understand it? If you say "no" to either or both of these questions, you're not alone. In fact, most attorneys aren't familiar with this law. The Jones Act is…

Richard Lesser Esq.March 3, 2014

Legal Loss Prevention Management Travel

Storm Warnings: How to Prepare and Protect Your Travel Customers in the Event Of Storms and Other Emergencies

In August 1992, 20 divers from my dive center were on the island of Bimini when warnings came that the Bahamian island (and South Florida) was in the projected path of Hurricane Andrew (a Category 5 hurricane). I was in…

Donna AskewMarch 2, 2014

Insurance Legal Loss Prevention Management Operations

Unsettled Waters: The Jones Act and Why You Need to Be Especially on Guard – Article Update

When I wrote about the effect of the Jones Act on the recreational scuba diving industry eight years ago in Dive Center Business, it appeared that after a rather unsettled history, admiralty law (the branch of law that deals with…

Richard Lesser Esq.March 2, 2014

Legal Management Management 101 Travel

Clean Up Your Act — How to Avoid Dive Travel Legal Messes (according to a Guy Who Cleans Them Up for a Living)

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times -- on the same dive trip. Here I was in the middle of the North Atlantic fulfilling the dream of a lifetime, diving on what is arguably the…

David Concannon EsqDecember 7, 2009

Legal Loss Prevention Management

The State Of Scuba Risk Management: Top 10 Reasons Why Dive Professionals Get Sued

Reason 10: Dive Gear Works Although our firm represents several major equipment manufacturing companies both in recreational and commercial diving, we usually feel like the proverbial Maytag repairman, in that the amount of litigation that arises against a manufacturer…

Richard Lesser Esq.February 2, 2009

Insurance Legal Management Operations

Things That Go Bump in Your Store: a Premises Liability Primer for Dive Store Owners

On a typical Saturday afternoon at your dive store, you're helping a new diver select her first dive computer. Several customers mill about the sales floor, admiring gadgets, pricing equipment, chatting with store staff, and making purchases. These include a…

Barry K. ShusterJanuary 27, 2009

Employment & Staffing Legal Staff

The Importance Of an Employee Handbook and What to Include

While we would wish that employee turnover in the scuba industry was lower, many retailers have a constant stream of new hires. Well-drafted, easy-to-understand work rules, relevant to retailing and scuba, are imperative to getting your people up to speed…

Alisa P. Cleek Esq.January 22, 2009

Insurance 101 Legal Loss Prevention Management Operations

Plain English Ain’t Always So Plain: Understanding Your Commercial General Liability Insurance Policy

For more than 30 years my father owned a small business. At least once a year he had to meet with his lawyer, his accountant and his insurance agent. While he knew that the advice these professionals were giving him…

DCB StaffJanuary 22, 2009

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