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Commercial diving/Prepare for and carry out emergency procedures and drills

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

Required outcomes:

  1. Prepare for and carry out generic emergency procedures and drills, including:
    • Deal with loss of gas in the chamber
    • Handle loss of communication on deck/above water to team members
    • Provide basic life support and first aid to an injured team member
    • Recover man overboard
    • Respond to fire alarm and evacuation
    • Carry out chamber blow-down and check built-in breathing systems function and oxygen supply
    • Perform a communications check with the Designated Medical Practitioner
    • Complete timed transfer of diver from water exit to offsite chamber