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Title
Instruct clients on diver propulsion vehicle (DPV) diving
Level
6
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients to prepare and perform diver propulsion vehicle (DPV)
dives.
Classification
Diving > Diving - Instruction
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
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
The buddy system is where scuba divers dive in pairs while maintaining contact with
each other at all times.
2
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).
3
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.
4
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.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Instruct clients to prepare for DPV dives.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ diver propulsion vehicle
(DPV) dive plan meets industry criteria.
Range
distance, navigation, descent rate, ascent rate, air supply, time,
depth, no-decompression limits.
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients can explain maintenance
of DPV in accordance with manufacturer’s specifications.
1.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ pre-dive procedures for
DPV meet industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
1.4
battery, controls, seals, lights.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ identification of potential
hazards of DPV diving and remedial procedures meet industry technical and
safety criteria.
Range
rapid descent, equalisation, distance, time, battery life, extended
air time, no-decompression limits.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to perform DPV dives.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ ascents and descents
are controlled and adhere to dive plan.
2.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ use of the DPV complies
with manufacturer’s specifications.
2.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ DPV dive meets industry
technical and safety criteria.
Range
2.4
ascent, environmental conditions, hazards, communication with
buddy or team.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients manage an emergency
according to industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
emergencies may include – entanglement, disorientation.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
8287 version 4
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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
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
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