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Title
Instruct clients on underwater photography diving
Level
6
Credits
5
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients to plan an underwater photographic dive, and instruct
clients to perform an underwater photographic dive.
Classification
Diving > Diving - Instruction
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Entry is restricted to those in possession of the entry-level
certification as recognised by the New Zealand Underwater
Recreational Training Council (NZURTC) or equivalent, as
determined by the Sport Fitness Recreation Industry Training
Organisation.
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
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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SSB Code 101576
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Outcome 1
Instruct clients to plan an underwater photographic dive.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection of underwater
photography equipment meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
camera, strobe, aiming lights, lenses, trays, arms, sealing rings,
recharging systems, film, maintenance kit.
1.2
Instruction ensures that clients’ selection of the dive site for underwater
photography takes into account the subject, access, environmental conditions,
and hazards.
1.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are able to identify
potential underwater photography hazards according to industry technical and
safety criteria.
Range
1.4
Clients are instructed on the principles of photograph composition.
Range
1.5
nitrogen narcosis, decompression illness, barotrauma,
environmental damage, equipment flooding or malfunction,
mobility, dexterity, corrosion.
definition, image completeness, foreground, background, subject
direction and position, lighting, contrast.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that pre-dive and post-dive care of
photographic equipment meets the manufacturer’s specifications.
tools, cleaning, lubrication, sealing rings, batteries, electronics,
This
unit
lens, strobe,
camera.standard is
expiring
Range
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to take perform an underwater photographic dive.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Clients are instructed on how their behaviour can impact on the environment
and how to limit that impact.
Range
2.2
diver propulsion, buoyancy control, body positioning.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ behaviour limits the
negative impact of environmental conditions on the photographs.
Range
suspended particles, light loss, colour absorption.
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2.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ photographs using
strobe lighting minimise backscatter.
2.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ completed photographs
are exposed and focussed to the client’s and instructor’s satisfaction.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28423.
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.
This unit standard is
expiring
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
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
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