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Title
Instruct clients on wreck diving
Level
6
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients to prepare for and perform wreck 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
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
All workplace diving practice must
comply with the requirements of the Health and
expiring
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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SSB Code 101576
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Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes the Historic Places Act 1993,
Marine Reserves Act 1971, and the Maritime Transport Act 1994.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Instruct clients to prepare for a wreck dive.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ profile of the wreck
explores its historical and ecological significance.
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ air supply and
penetration limits for the wreck dive are determined according to industry
technical and safety criteria.
1.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ explanation of legislation
relates to wreck diving.
Range
Historic Places Act 1993, Marine Reserves Act 1971, Maritime
Transport Act 1994.
1.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ dive plan establishes
descent and/or ascent reference.
1.5
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection of exposure
protection and equipment meets industry technical and safety criteria.
1.6
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients explain wreck diving
hazards according to industry technical and safety criteria.
This
unit standard is
the wreck itself, depth, currents, penetration, time, air depletion,
entanglement, navigation, disorientation.
expiring
Range
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to perform wreck dives.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ ascent reference is
located without surfacing.
2.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients complete wreck dives
within pre-set air supply and penetration limits.
2.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ wreck dive meets
industry technical and safety criteria.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
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dive plan, communication with buddy or team, access,
environmental conditions, hazards, safety lines, mapping, lighting.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28428.
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.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
This unit standard is
expiring
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.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016