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Title
Instruct clients in computer-aided diving
Level
6
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients to: read a dive computer; plan computer dives; and dive
using a dive computer.
Classification
Diving > Diving - Instruction
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 8270, Instruct clients on specialist dive courses, or
demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1
Industry technical and safety criteria are specified in the training manuals of the
agencies approved by the Sport Fitness and Recreation Industry Training
Organisation (Sfrito).
2
All workplace diving practice must comply with the requirements of the Health and
Safety in Employment Act 1992 and Health and Safety in Employment Regulations
1995. All practice must also comply with Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and
Compensation Act 2001 and the Occupational Safety and Health guidelines for
Occupational Diving.
3
This unit standard is
expiring
All training providers assessing against any instruction diving unit standard must
ensure that the training is conducted by a qualified instructor currently registered with
one of the listed agencies: National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI),
Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), Scuba Schools International
(SSI), Confédération Mondiale des Activitiés Subaquatiques (CMAS), International
Diving Educators Association (IDEA), or an equivalent, determined by Sfrito, that
meets the requirements of the Recreational Scuba Training Council (RSTC), the
candidate’s instructor must provide training in accordance with the standards and
procedures of the respective training agency.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Instruct clients to read a dive computer.
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Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients can identify features
of a dive computer.
Range
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients can identify data
logging procedures.
Range
1.3
no-decompression status, time, depth.
no-decompression status, time, depth.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ ability to read a dive
computer meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to plan computer dives.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients can identify hazards
of computer-aided diving.
Range
sawtooth profile (variable depth profile), bounce dives, strenuous
activity, cold, computer failure.
2.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are able to take remedial
action to avoid hazards.
2.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients maintain equipment to
manufacturer’s specifications.
2.4
This unit standard is
Instruction ensures that the clients’ dive plan is prepared according to industry
technical and safety criteria.
expiring
Outcome 3
Instruct clients to dive using a dive computer.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ use of the computer
allows dive plan to be adhered to.
3.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ dive practice meets
industry technical and safety criteria.
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SSB Code 101576
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NZQA Expiring unit standard
Replacement information
8278 version 4
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This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28421.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
23 September 1996
31 December 2016
Revision
2
17 July 2001
31 December 2016
Review
3
26 July 2005
31 December 2016
Review
4
20 November 2014
31 December 2016
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
This unit standard is
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent
and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
expiring
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016