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Title Instruct clients on cavern diving
6 Credits Level
Purpose
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People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct clients to prepare for and perform cavern dives and to communicate while cavern diving.
Classification
Available grade
Entry information
Diving > Diving - Instruction
Achieved
Critical health and safety prerequisites
Prerequisite: Unit 8270, Instruct clients on specialist dive courses, or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
Version 4 was republished to correct the Standard Setting Body (SSB) name and the SSB
Code.
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), Conf
édération 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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Outcome 1
Instruct clients to prepare for a cavern dive.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are able to identify and locate types of caverns.
Range sea, coral, lava tubes, siphon.
1.2 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are able to explain the guideline procedures according to industry technical and safety criteria.
Range tie off, line trap, tension, line crossing, entanglement, placement.
1.3 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection of cavern diving equipment matches their build and experience, and meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range lights, reel, compass, cylinders, alternative air source.
1.4 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ preparation for cavern diving meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to perform cavern dives.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients maintain neutral buoyancy and body trim with minimum weights.
2.2 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients limit potential environmental effects in cavern dive practice.
Range ceiling, limited space, currents, darkness, chemicals, gases, silting.
2.3 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients comply with industry technical and safety criteria when using a guideline.
Range deployment, handling and retrieval.
2.4 Instruction includes assessment to ens propulsion techniques minimise silting. ure that clients’ body position and
2.5
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ cavern diving equipment is used without drag and entanglement.
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2.6 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clie technical and safety criteria.
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Outcome 3
Instruct clients to communicate while cavern diving.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ communication is maintained with other divers while cavern diving.
Range visual, touch, command signals.
3.2 Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ signals are given, received, and responded to using the guideline.
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
Review
2
3
17 July 2001
26 July 2005
31 December 2016
31 December 2016
Review 4 20 November 2014 31 December 2016
Republished 4 5 February 2015 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.
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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