Commercial diving/Diver umbilical management and tendering
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Relevance: Scuba diving, Surface supplied diving, Surface oriented wet bell diving.
Required outcomes:
- Discuss the principles of safe umbilical and lifeline management including active tendering and effects of current and sea states
- Identify risks to the umbilical
- Define the maximum diver umbilical lengths including excursion
- Describe umbilical marking
- Discuss water entry and descent of the diver in relation to umbilical management
- Discuss diver movement on the bottom in relation to umbilical management
- Describe diver ascent and exit in relation to umbilical management
- Describe the correct storage and care of umbilicals, including coiling
- Discuss the differences in application and handling of buoyant, neutral and negative buoyancy umbilicals