NZQA Expiring unit standard
Title
Complete a night dive
Level
3
4388 version 4
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Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to plan and
perform a night dive.
Classification
Diving > Diving - Recreational
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Unit 4384, Scuba dive and perform rescues in open water to a
maximum depth of 18 metres, 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
At night means between 1 hour after sunset and 1 hour before sunrise.
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
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.
5
The buddy system is where snorkel divers dive in pairs while maintaining contact with
each other at all times.
This unit standard is
expiring
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
4388 version 4
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Outcome 1
Plan a night dive.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Lighting equipment selected meets industry criteria.
Range
1.2
Potential night diving hazards are described according to industry criteria.
Range
1.3
primary, back-up, chemical.
lack of light, adverse environment, equipment unfamiliarity, light
failure, buddy separation, disorientation.
Night dive site selected meets industry safety criteria.
Range
access, environmental conditions, hazards.
Outcome 2
Perform a night dive.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Entries to and exits from the water maintain orientation and buddy contact.
Range
off boat and/or offshore.
2.2
Ascents and descents with reference are completed without losing orientation or
buddy contact.
2.3
Communication with buddy and team members is achieved using hand signals
and dive lights.
2.4
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Buddy contact is maintained throughout the night dive.
2.5
Route is navigated by compass and/or natural phenomena.
2.6
Personal dive lights illuminate dive site.
2.7
Light failure drill meets industry technical and safety criteria.
2.8
Night dive practice meets industry technical and safety criteria.
2.9
Identification of nocturnal aquatic life meets industry criteria.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
Replacement information
4388 version 4
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This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28396.
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
24 November 1995
31 December 2016
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.
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.
This unit standard is
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
expiring
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