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Title
Instruct clients in night dives
Level
6
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients to: plan and prepare a night dive; and instruct clients in
night diving.
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
The buddy system is where scuba divers dive in pairs while maintaining contact with
each other at all times.
2
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).
3
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.
4
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.
This unit standard is
expiring
Outcomes and evidence requirements
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Outcome 1
Instruct clients to plan for a night dive.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients can identify criteria for
lighting equipment selection.
Range
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients can identify potential
night diving hazards.
Range
1.3
lack of light, adverse environmental conditions, equipment
unfamiliarity, light failure, buddy separation, disorientation.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients can identify factors in
night dive site selection.
Range
1.4
primary, back-up, chemical.
access, environmental conditions, hazards.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure clients’ dive plans meet industry
technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients in night dive preparation.
Evidence requirements
2.1
2.2
2.3
This unit standard is
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ dive lights illuminate dive
site.
expiring
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients can navigate by compass
or natural phenomena at night.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are familiar with the light
failure drill.
Outcome 3
Instruct clients in night diving.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ entries to, and exits from,
the water maintain orientation and buddy contact.
Range
off boat or offshore.
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3.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ ascent and descent with
reference are completed without losing orientation or buddy contact.
3.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ communication with
buddy and team members is achieved using hand signals and dive lights.
3.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ buddy contact is
maintained throughout the night dive.
3.5
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that night dive meets industry
technical and safety criteria.
3.6
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients can identify nocturnal
aquatic life common to dive site.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28422.
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
This unit standard is
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
expiring
Review
4
20 November 2014
31 December 2016
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.
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
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
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to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is
expiring
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