Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners

DEFWDV025 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Dive using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus in open water to a maximum depth of 30 metres

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Issue Date: May 2024


Qualification -
Unit of Competency DEFWDV025 - Dive using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus in open water to a maximum depth of 30 metres
Description
Employability Skills
Learning Outcomes and Application
Duration and Setting X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting.
Prerequisites/co-requisites
Competency Field
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners Student Learning Resources Handouts
Activities 		Slides
PPT 		Assessment 1 Assessment 2 Assessment 3 Assessment 4
Elements of Competency Performance Criteria              
Element: Prepare for a SCUBA diving operation
  • Follow a dive plan using industry approved decompression tables and obtain supervisor’s clearance in accordance with organisational procedures
       
Element: Select, prepare and test equipment in accordance with manufacturer specifications and organisational policies and procedures
       
Element: Inspect equipment for serviceability, quarantine any unserviceable equipment and report defects to dive supervisor
       
Element: Confirm independent safety check of fit and function of equipment
       
Element: Enter and exit the water
  • Position markers in the water to identify presence of divers
       
Element: Conduct in-water leak test at the surface to ensure the integrity and functionality of equipment
       
Element: Perform entry and exit techniques at the assigned entry and exit points
       
Element: Descend to, and ascend from, depths ranging from zero to 30 metres
  • Complete pre-dive buoyancy checks
       
Element: Maintain measured and controlled breathing and finning
       
Element: Implement dive descent, decompression and dive ascent techniques in accordance with dive plan and safety procedures
       
Element: Maintain awareness of, and distance from, surface and sub-surface hazards
       
Element: Ensure minimal disturbance to bottom to enable maximum visibility and a safe work environment
       
Element: Undertake checks to ensure safety to surface
       
Element: Identify and manage dive-specific emergencies andproblems
  • Monitor relevant risk factors throughout dive to manage threats and personal safety in accordance with risk assessment
       
Element: Recognise signs and symptoms of compression and/or decompression related problems in self and others
       
Element: Implement compression and/or decompression immediate corrective action in accordance with dive plan and safety procedures
       
Element: Recognise and manage temperature related hazards in self or others and implement appropriate controls in accordance with risk assessment
       
Element: Recover spatial awareness when balance is lost under conditions of zero visibility
       
Element: Recover any lost and/or separated diver
       
Element: Communicate underwater
  • Inspect electronic communications device and accessories for serviceability and fit
       
Element: Transmit and receive messages using electronic communications devices and communication protocols
       
Element: De-service and stow electronic communications device and accessories in accordance with manufacturer specifications
       
Element: Perform a simple navigation leg underwater
  • Maintain compass bearing underwater
       
Element: Estimate and maintain distance for a constant swim rate underwater
       
Element: React to individual and group contingencies and/or emergencies
  • Clear flooded face mask and blocked mouthpiece and refit
       
Element: Resolve failed primary breathing system and manage irrecoverable malfunctions in accordance with dive plan
       
Element: Manage lost and severed safety lines
       
Element: Manage significant systemic failures through ditching drill and emergency surfacing drill in accordance with dive plan and safety procedures
       
Element: Operate, inspect and maintain SCUBA breathing gas and personal dive equipment
  • Inspect and maintain equipment in accordance with manufacturer specifications
       
Element: Conduct post-activity serviceability tests and re-stow dive and communications equipment in accordance with manufacturer specifications, dive standards and organisational policy and procedures
       
Element: Quarantine and tag unserviceable equipment and report defects in accordance with organisational procedures
       

Submission Requirements

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Assessment Tasks

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Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Follow a dive plan using industry approved decompression tables and obtain supervisor’s clearance in accordance with organisational procedures 
 
 
 
Position markers in the water to identify presence of divers 
 
 
Complete pre-dive buoyancy checks 
 
 
 
 
 
Monitor relevant risk factors throughout dive to manage threats and personal safety in accordance with risk assessment 
 
 
 
 
 
Inspect electronic communications device and accessories for serviceability and fit 
 
 
Maintain compass bearing underwater 
 
Clear flooded face mask and blocked mouthpiece and refit 
 
 
 
Inspect and maintain equipment in accordance with manufacturer specifications 
 
 

Forms

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