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8297 version 5
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Title
Instruct clients in dry suit diving
Level
6
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to instruct
clients to prepare for dry suit dives and to dive wearing a dry
suit.
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 refer to dive instruction, supervision and
performance being carried out in accordance with the standards, procedures and
training materials of the respective dive training agency. The agency must meet or
exceed the World Recreational Scuba Training Council training standards.
2
All workplace diving practice must comply with the requirements of the Health and
Safety at Work Act 2015, and the Health and Safety in Employment Regulations
1995. All practice must also comply with the Accident Compensation Act 2001,
AS/NZS 2299.3:2003 Occupational diving operations – Recreational industry diving
and snorkelling operations and the Guidelines for Occupational Diving 2004
http://www.business.govt.nz/worksafe.
3
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 (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 Skills Active
Aotearoa Limited, that meets the requirements of the World Recreational Scuba
Training Council (WRSTC), the instructor must provide training in accordance with
the standards and procedures of the respective training agency.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
8297 version 5
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Instruct clients to prepare for dry suit dives.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ identification of dry
suit construction features meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
closure, seals, valves, construction material.
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ cleaning, drying, and
storage of the dry suit incurs no damage.
1.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ dry suit maintenance
meets manufacturer’s specifications.
1.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ selection of the dry
suit and equipment meets industry technical and safety criteria.
1.5
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ identification of dry
suit emergencies and remedial procedures outlined meets industry technical
and safety criteria.
Range
1.6
excessive air in the suit or in the feet, dropped weight belt, flooded
suit, squeeze, suit leak.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ preparation for the
dry suit dive meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to dive wearing a dry suit.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients are able to maintain
neutral buoyancy during a dive.
2.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ buoyancy is adjusted
on the surface and underwater.
2.3
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ descent is performed
in a controlled manner and at a rate which meets industry technical and safety
criteria.
2.4
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that the clients’ dry suit dive practice
meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Range
access, hazards, environmental conditions, accessory equipment.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA Expiring unit standard
Replacement information
8297 version 5
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This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28437.
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
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
Rollover
5
18 August 2016
31 December 2018
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.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016