Commercial diving/Execute the Dive Plan

Relevance: Scuba diving (full-specific), Surface supplied diving (full-specific), Surface oriented wet bell diving (full-specific).

Main resource: Commercial diving/Scuba diving practical assessment criteria

Main resource: Commercial diving/Surface supplied diving practical assessment criteria

Main resource: Commercial diving/Wet bell diving practical assessment criteria

Required outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the ability to safely enter the water
2. Demonstrate the ability to correctly complete in-water checks
3. Demonstrate the ability to descend to the dive work site
4. Demonstrate the ability to manage diver’s umbilical or lifeline
5. Demonstrate the ability to communicate with the dive supervisor as to progress made
6. Demonstrate the ability to correctly receive relevant tooling from the surface
7. Demonstrate the ability to execute the work as per the dive plan and instructions from the supervisor
8. Demonstrate the ability to safely ascend with the appropriate decompression steps
9. Demonstrate the ability to safely surface
10. Demonstrate the ability to safely exit the water
11. Demonstrate the ability to complete surface decompression when required
12. Demonstrate the ability to dive safely on scuba with a buddy diver (in good and poor visibility}
13. Demonstrate the ability to navigate underwater around a dive site on scuba, including laying and retrieving a guideline, following a guideline and finding a guideline, swimming a compass course and pilotage by underwater landmarks )
14. Demonstrate the ability to manage a scuba bailout set
15. Demonstrate ability to manage surface supplied diving contingencies. (Bailout to scuba, helmet flooding, pneumo breathing, loss of buoyancy, loss of ballast, dry suit flood, thermal imbalances, faceplate fogging, voice communications failures, umbilical snags, minor entrapment, etc)