Commercial diving/Scuba diving
Relevance: Scuba diving
Required outcomes:
- Discuss the advantages, application and limitations of open circuit scuba diving
- Discuss the advantages, application and limitations of closed and semi-closed scuba circuit diving
- Discuss the advantages, application and limitations of nitrox scuba diving
- Discuss the equipment, techniques and importance of appropriate weighting, buoyancy control and diver trim in the context of scuba diving
- Discuss equipment inspection and testing requirements for scuba diving
- Discuss the importance of planned maintenance and equipment repair
- Discuss minimum personnel requirements for scuba diving operations
- Discuss individual and diving team responsibilities for scuba diving operations
- Discuss breathing gas planning and supplies for scuba diving operations, including equipment configuration, bailout, reserves and medical oxygen
- Discuss minimum gas requirements for scuba diving operations including bailout, reserves and medical oxygen
- Discuss the importance and procedures of oxygen tracking
- Describe the use of gas switching for accelerated decompression
Open circuit scuba
[edit | edit source]Closed and semi-closed circuit scuba
[edit | edit source]Nitrox
[edit | edit source]Diver buoyancy control: Weighting, buoyancy control devices and trim
[edit | edit source]Scuba equipment inspection and testing
[edit | edit source]Planned maintenance and equipment repair
[edit | edit source]The scuba diving team: Personnel requirements
[edit | edit source]The scuba diving team: Responsibilities
[edit | edit source]Scuba gas planning
[edit | edit source]Minimum gas requirements
[edit | edit source]Oxygen tracking
[edit | edit source]Gas switching for accelerated decompression
[edit | edit source]Note: Basic equipment must be fitted in somewhere. Diving suit, fins, other?