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Title
Instruct clients in diving off the shore
Level
6
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients to prepare for and perform a shore dive.
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
All training providers assessing
against any instruction diving unit standard must
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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 shore dive.
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Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ site selection, and
evaluation of conditions as acceptable or unacceptable for diving, matches their
diving experience and meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
tide, surf, hazards.
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ dive flag use meets
industry technical and safety criteria.
1.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are able to explain the
effects of currents, waves, rips, and tides in terms of their impact on divers
according to industry technical and safety criteria.
1.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection of exposure
protection and equipment matches their build and experience and meets
industry technical and safety criteria.
1.5
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ explanation of the effects
of sand, pebbles, rocks, silt, mud, and contamination is in terms of their impact
on divers and meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to perform a shore dive.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ entries to and exits from
the water matches their diving ability and experience.
2.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ dive meets industry
technical and safety criteria.
This unit standard is
Range
currents, waves,
tides, environmental condition, access, hazards.
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Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28433.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
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8293 version 4
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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.
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.
This unit standard is
expiring
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016