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Title
Instruct clients on drift diving
Level
6
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: instruct
clients to plan and perform drift dives; and communicate while
drift 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
The dive team consists of those individuals who are present on the launch vehicle
before the dive begins.
3
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).
4
This unit standard is
expiring
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.
5
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.
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Instruct clients to plan drift dives.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ dive plan identifies
currents and their characteristics.
Range
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients have negotiated the drift
dive plan with buddy and other team members.
Range
1.3
onshore, offshore, river, tidal induced, longshore, rip.
descent, ascent, communications, hazards, emergency
procedures for separation and exhaustion.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ selection of drift dive
equipment meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
surface floats, lines, emergency signalling devices.
1.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ planning for dive
team recovery or exit meets industry technical and safety criteria.
1.5
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ planning for drift dive
meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
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Evidence requirements
expiring
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients demonstrate positive,
Instruct clients to perform drift dives.
neutral, and negative buoyancy in drift dive practice.
2.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ descents are
simultaneous with the dive team.
2.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients meet the negotiated dive
plan in drift diving ascents.
Range
buddy pairs, as a group.
2.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients complete drift dives with
and without a surface reference float or boat.
2.5
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ drift dive practice meets
industry technical and safety criteria.
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access, hazards, environmental conditions.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ performance of drift dive
meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 3
Instruct clients to communicate while drift diving.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ communication is
achieved and maintained using surface signalling equipment.
3.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients maintain relative position
with the dive team while drift diving.
3.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ hand signals are
given, received, and responded to, as agreed in the dive plan.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28425.
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
Revision
Review
Review
This
unit standard
is
1
23 September 1996
31 December 2016
2
17 July 2001
31 December 2016
expiring
3
26 July 2005
31 December 2016
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.
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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
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is
expiring
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016