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Title
Scuba dive and perform rescues in open water to a maximum depth
of 18 metres
Level
3
Credits
7
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: use and
maintain scuba dive equipment; plan and perform scuba dives
without direct supervision in open water to a maximum depth of
18 metres; and perform scuba dive rescues in open water to a
maximum depth of 18 metres.
Classification
Diving > Diving - Recreational
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
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 Accident Rehabilitation and Compensation
Insurance Act 1992 and the Occupational Safety and Health guidelines for
Occupational Diving.
4
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,
Professional Association of Diving Instructors, Scuba Schools International,
Confédération Mondiale des Activitiés Subaquatiques, International Diving Educators
Association, or an equivalent, determined by Sfrito, that meets the requirements of
the Recreational Scuba Training Council, the instructor must provide training in
accordance with the standards and procedures of the respective training agency.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Use and maintain scuba dive equipment.
Evidence requirements
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1.1
Selected scuba dive equipment matches the diver’s build and experience.
1.2
Scuba dive equipment is used according to industry technical and safety
criteria.
1.3
Explanation of maintenance required meets the manufacturer’s
recommendations.
1.4
No-decompression times are calculated to meet industry technical and safety
criteria.
1.5
Buoyancy Control Device establishes positive, negative, and neutral buoyancy.
Outcome 2
Plan and perform scuba dives without direct supervision in open water to a maximum
depth of 18 metres.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Physics and physiology are described in relation to scuba diving and divers.
Range
2.2
Selected scuba dive site meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
2.3
2.5
2.6
environmental conditions, hazards, access.
Entries to and exits from the water meet industry technical and safety criteria.
This unit standard is
Hand signals given, recognised,
and responded in accordance with industry
expiring
technical and safety criteria.
Range
2.4
pressure, temperature, buoyancy.
offshore and/or off boats.
Buddy system is maintained at all times.
Dives are completed within industry accepted safety limits.
Range
ascents, descents, safety stop, reciprocal bearings, dive
calculations, time, depth, air supply monitoring, monitoring
equipment.
Outcome 3
Perform scuba dive rescues in open water to a maximum depth of 18 metres.
Evidence requirements
3.1
First aid for potential scuba dive incidents is explained according to industry
technical and safety criteria.
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Range
3.2
near drowning, hypothermia, hyperthermia, barotrauma, cramps,
exhaustion.
Diving related hazards are described in relation to their causes, symptoms,
effects, and prevention.
Range
3.3
squeezes, barotrauma, panic, nitrogen narcosis, decompression
illnesses, contaminated scuba air, hypothermia, hyperthermia.
Emergency out-of-air techniques demonstrated meet industry technical and
safety criteria.
Range
3.4
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alternative air source assisted ascent, controlled emergency
swimming ascent.
Self and buddy rescue techniques demonstrated meet industry technical and
safety criteria.
Range
surface swimming, relieving cramps, equipment removal,
establishing buoyancy, calling for assistance, buddy secured and
towed 15 metres.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28392.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
This unit standard is
1
24 November
1995
31 December 2016
expiring
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
Revision
2
17 July 2001
31 December 2016
Review
3
21 February 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.
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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
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