Statistics Committee
Organizational Members of the American Academy of Underwater Sciences
agree to submit summary statistics each year of dives, modes of diving
and any incidents associated with their program. Annual stats may be
submitted at http://stats.diveaaus.org. It is strongly recommended that your fill in the blank form
by hand before attempting to submit your stats. Inputs are error
checked and you may get a message that your totals do not agree. Please
do not include any dives that do not meet AAUS standards, i.e.
recreational dives accepted by the DCB as proficiency dives. AAUS
statistics collection criteria and definitions may be found at http://stats.diveaaus.org/Reporting/Stats_definitions.asp.
A web-based dive logging program to help track annual summary
statistics is available to Organizational Members. Use of this software
is voluntary; if you have a system in place that works for you, you are
free to continue to use it. AAUS pursued this option because many of the
smaller to medium OMs lack access to information technology resources
and the DSOs are overwhelmed trying to track dives and divers manually.
We want to make it a little easier for you to comply with the
requirement to turn in annual stats. Each OM that would like to use the
software will have their own password protected website and a limited
ability to customize the look of their data collection. The OM divers
may log into the OM’s site at any time once they are registered and
activated by the DSO. The intent is that divers log their dives
immediately following each dive, project or trip. The software will keep
running totals of the end of the year stats required by AAUS for the
OM’s group of divers. Once the DSO has determined that all the dives
have been logged and reviewed them for accuracy, the annual AAUS stats
report numbers can be entered at a separate site. It is important to
realize that no one at AAUS or at any other OM can see any data on your
website. Only the DSO at each OM can see all of their OM’s divers and
the summary data of their collective dives. One feature of the software
is that if the DSO keeps the certification data in the diver profiles
(CPR, First Aid, Oxygen, etc.) up to date, the report feature will
indicate which divers are not current on any given date. In addition,
fully editable LORs can be printed using data in the diver’s profile.
If you are interested in having a dive logging site set up for your OM, contact [email protected]
Annual statistics turned in by the OMs are compiled into the AAUS
annual report and periodically analyzed. A comparison of the recent AAUS
diving activity to scientific diving prior to the scientific diving
exemption concluded that total pressure-related injury rates were
similar. Pressure Related Incidence rates in Scientific Diving
Notes from the Committee:
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Statistical summaries are due each January, are considered late 1
April. The statistics committee will try to contact you about problems
with your submission after April but if there is no satisfactory
response by 1 July, the OM will be turned over to the Standards
Committee for action.
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To review the format of stats entry before logging in, please review this blank form.
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Summary statistics and DCI Incidence Rates
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If you are interested in serving on this committee, please contact AAUS at [email protected]