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Title
Instruct clients on search and recovery diving
Level
6
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients to perform underwater searches and to recover an
object that weighs between 6 and 45 kg using underwater
search and recovery dives.
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
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’ 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
Outcome 1
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Instruct clients to perform underwater searches.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ planning of underwater
searches meets industry technical and safety criteria.
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ selection of search
technique meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
1.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ performance of
underwater searches meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
1.4
bottom topography, water movement, depth, visibility,
communication.
linear, circular, U pattern, jackstay, expanding square.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ search locates
object.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to recover an object that weighs between 6 and 45 kg using underwater
recovery dives.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ planning of recovery
exercise meets industry technical and safety criteria.
2.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ identification and
explanation of recovery methods are in terms of the size, depth, and weight of
object to be recovered.
2.3
This unit standard is
Instruction includes assessment
to ensure that clients identify hazards
expiring
associated with underwater lifting techniques.
Range
slipping knots, runaway ascent, load dislodgement, entanglement,
diver position.
2.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are able to use recovery
dive techniques to bring to the surface an object weighing between 6 and 45
kgs.
2.5
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ calculations of
displacement and lift meet industry technical and safety criteria.
2.6
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are able to tie knots to
match the underwater purpose.
Range
bowline, half hitch, sheet bend.
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Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are able to bring to the
surface an object weighing between 6 and 45 kgs using lifting equipment in
accordance with industry technical and safety criteria.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28426.
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
Providers and Industry Training Organisations,
which have been granted consent and
expiring
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
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