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Title
Dive at an altitude greater than 300 metres
Level
3
Credits
3
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare for
and perform dives at an altitude greater than 300 metres.
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
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.
3
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
Prepare dives at an altitude of greater than 300 metres.
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Evidence requirements
1.1
Diving at altitude is compared to diving at other sites.
Range
buoyancy, temperature, partial pressure differences, equipment
needs.
1.2
No-decompression limits are calculated for single and repetitive altitude dives
according to industry technical and safety criteria.
1.3
First aid for potential altitude related diving incidents is explained.
Range
1.4
decompression illnesses, hypoxia, hypothermia, narcosis.
Exposure protection and equipment meet industry technical and safety criteria.
Outcome 2
Perform dives at an altitude greater than 300 metres.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Depth gauge readings are adjusted for altitude-induced errors.
2.2
Altitude dive practice meets industry technical and safety criteria.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28402.
This unit standard is
expiring
Status information and last date for
assessment for superseded versions
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
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.
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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