NZQA Expiring unit standard
Title
Complete a dive off a boat
Level
3
4402 version 4
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Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate
knowledge of dive boats, and complete a dive off a boat.
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
The Maritime Transport Act 1994 and its Regulations stipulate criteria relating to
vessels of different sizes, their proposed area of use, the passengers and equipment
carried, qualifications of skipper and crew, and any additional licensing authority
requirements.
3
This unit standard is
All workplace diving practice must
comply with the requirements of the Health and
expiring
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.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
4402 version 4
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Outcome 1
Demonstrate knowledge of dive boats.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Boat terminology is used to identify areas of a dive boat.
Range
1.2
bow, stern, starboard, port, windward, leeward, aloft, below, above
deck, amidship, head, galley, bridge, wheelhouse, transom, rail,
cockpit, stowage, dry and wet areas, out of bounds areas.
Emergency equipment carried on board boat is located and its use
demonstrated to meet Maritime Transport Act requirements.
Range
life preservers, fire extinguishers, distress signals, bilge pump or
bailer, first aid kit, marine radio, personal flotation.
Outcome 2
Complete a dive off a boat.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Dive flags use is to industry technical and safety criteria.
2.2
Water entry matches boat type, diver ability, and sea condition.
2.3
Dive practice meets industry technical and safety criteria.
This unit standard is
Entry and exit hazards are
described according to industry technical and safety
expiring
criteria.
Range
2.4
2.5
access, environmental conditions, hazards, entries, exits.
Exit techniques match boat type, sea condition, and diver ability.
Range
movement of boat and water, ladders, duckboards, entry and/or
exit area access, other divers.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28407.
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
NZQA Expiring unit standard
4402 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
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.
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