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Title
Complete drift dives on SCUBA
Level
3
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to plan and
perform drift dives, and communicate while drift diving.
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
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
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.
This unit standard is
expiring
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
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Plan drift dives to meet industry technical and safety criteria.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Drift dive plan identifies currents and their characteristics.
Range
1.2
Ascent decisions are made and related to drift diving party.
Range
1.3
descent, ascent, communications, hazards, emergency
procedures for separation and exhaustion.
Selected drift dive equipment meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
1.5
minimum air supply, location, signals.
Drift dive plan is negotiated with the buddy and other team members.
Range
1.4
onshore, offshore, river, tidal induced, longshore, rip.
surface floats, lines, emergency signalling devices.
Dive team recovery and/or exit planning meets industry technical and safety
criteria.
Outcome 2
Perform drift dives.
Evidence requirements
This unit standard is
Drift diving ascents meetexpiring
the negotiated dive plan.
2.1
Drift dive practice demonstrates positive, neutral, and negative buoyancy.
2.2
Descents are simultaneous with the dive team.
2.3
Range
buddy pairs, as a group.
2.4
Drift dives are completed with and without a surface reference float and/or boat.
2.5
Drift dive practice meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
access, hazards, environmental conditions.
Outcome 3
Communicate while drift diving.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Surface signalling equipment achieves and maintains communication.
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3.2
Relative position with the dive team is maintained while drift diving.
3.3
Hand signals are given, received, and responded to, as agreed in the dive plan.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28400.
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.
This unit standard is
Providers and Industry Training Organisations,
which have been granted consent and
expiring
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
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.
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