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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Operate a surface-supply panel
  2. Conduct dive operations

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include:

applying relevant industry standards, and organisational policies and procedures

arranging for others to check equipment and maintain equipment during dive

conducting inwater checks

diving using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SSBA) in open water to 30 metres

entering and exiting the water appropriate to the launch platform, equipment and conditions

implementing contingency and emergency response plan

preparing equipment for dive

preparing surface control panel for dive

recovering and clearing mask and mouthpiece

switching from SSBA primary to reserve air system.


Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

dive physics

dive physiology and medicine including:

heat and cold illnesses

compression illnesses

decompression illnesses

diving descent and ascent techniques

general occupational/diving safety awareness including:

diving in harbours

diving in tidal waters, currents and tides

diving on and/or near a ship’s bottom

lost/separated

entrapment/foul lines

marine animal threats

pollution/weeds

working in confined spaces

hazards to the umbilical

marine hazards including marine animal threats

oceanography

relevant industry standards, and organisational policies and procedures

safe operating ranges for air supplies

SSBA dive equipment characteristics and limitations

surface-supply panel characteristics and limitations.