Commercial diving/Scuba diving
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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?