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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for underwater inspection
   • Identify and determine inspection task, target and available worksite data
   • Develop inspection plan consistent with dive plan in accordance with organisational procedures
   • Select and inspect inspection equipment to meet task requirements
   • Secure inspection equipment safely for transport to/from dive site
   • Identify obstructions and underwater hazards, assess risks and manage risk control measures in accordance with dive plan
2. Conduct underwater inspection
   • Secure inspection equipment on self for ease of accessibility and lack of interference to mobility and dive equipment
   • Clear dive area surface of debris and/or marine growth in accordance with inspection plan
   • Conduct visual analysis of dive area to identify significant features or defects
   • Measure underwater structures and record lengths, gaps angle and holes, in accordance with inspection plan and task requirements
   • Take appropriate visual imagery of target
3. Complete post inspection procedures
   • Undertake activity to de-service and store inspection equipment after use
   • Report inspection outcomes and identified faults in accordance with organisational procedures and inspection plan

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment. Non-essential conditions may be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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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, organisational policies and procedures assisting in providing information for an inspection report completing underwater dives conducting an inspection task requiring angular and linear measurements on one of the following: pier/bridge – assessment is to be constructed around the examination of an existing pier/bridge requiring some expedient reinforcement to make fit for operational use ship’s hull – assessment is to be constructed around a sonar dome housing inspection and poker/feeler gauge surveys developing inspection plan in accordance with relevant organisational procedure documenting non-technical inspection report making underwater field notes and sketches measuring and recording underwater structure lengths, gaps, angles and holes in accordance with inspection plan planning underwater inspection requirements taking measurements under water.

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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 equipment dive physics dive physiology and medicine including: heat and cold illnesses compression illnesses decompression illnesses diving descent and ascent techniques general 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 oceanography relevant architecture of piers and bridges relevant documentation and inspection proformas relevant industry standards, and organisational policies and procedures relevant mechanics requirements relevant pier/bridge non-technical structural assessment techniques relevant ship’s hull non-technical structural assessment techniques underwater workplace hazards.

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