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Title
Instruct clients on deep diving
Level
6
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: instruct
clients to prepare for and perform deep dives, and perform
tasks while deep diving, to between 18 and 40 metres.
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
This unit standard is
expiring
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.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Instruct clients to prepare for deep dives of between 18 and 40 metres.
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Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients establish nodecompression limits on deep diving plans.
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ deep dive plans meet
industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
1.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients identify symptoms and
treatment for potential deep diving first aid problems according to industry
technical and safety criteria.
Range
1.4
personal well-being, environmental conditions at the site, surface
intervals, experience/expertise of dive partner, buoyancy.
nitrogen narcosis, decompression illnesses, barotrauma,
hypercapnia, hypothermia, buoyancy control.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection of exposure
protection and equipment meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to perform deep dives of between 18 and 40 metres.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients use a reference as a
tactile or visual guide in controlled descents and ascents.
2.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ ascent rate does not
exceed 18 metres per minute.
2.3
This unit standard is
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients perform a 3 minute safety
stop at 5 metres on ascents.
expiring
2.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients adhere to dive plan when
practising deep dives.
2.5
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ deep dive meets industry
technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 3
Instruct clients to perform tasks while deep diving to a maximum of 40 metres.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients demonstrate recognition
and control of impairment effects of nitrogen narcosis when performing tasks at
depth.
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Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ can demonstrate how
depth affects objects in terms of pressure changes and colour absorption.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28429.
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
which are assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that
expiring
applies to those standards.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit 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