Commercial diving/Types of Diving Emergency Procedures
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Relevance: Scuba diving, Surface supplied diving, Surface oriented wet bell diving.
Required outcomes:
- Describe the diver’s first response to breathing apparatus malfunctions including free flow and restricted flow
- Describe the diver’s first response to the helmet or full-face mask
- Describe the diver’s first response to a snagged or fouled umbilical
- Describe the diver’s first response to severed or pinched umbilical
- Describe the action to be taken by diver and surface crew for loss of gas/air supply or contaminated breathing gas
- Discuss action to be taken by the diver and surface crew for loss of voice communications, including the use of line signals
- Discuss the deployment of standby diver to assist working diver including trapped or fouled diver or diver’s umbilical
- Discuss the recovery and management of a conscious incapacitated diver with minor or serious injury
- Discuss the recovery and management of a breathing, unconscious diver, including potential contaminated breathing gas, near drowning, convulsions
- Discuss the recovery and management of a non-breathing unconscious diver, including a dry or flooded breathing apparatus
- Discuss the recovery and management of a diver who has had a rapid ascent including blow-up and emergency ascent
- Describe the recovery and management of a diver who has potential decompression illness including rapid ascent or omitted decompression
- Describe the recovery and management of a diver during DP run off including yellow (amber) and red alert
- Discuss the management of a diver of a diver in the event of adverse fluctuations in the temperature of the water
- Describe recovery procedures to recover a distressed diver to the diver basket or wet bell
Breathing apparatus malfunctions
[edit | edit source]Helmet and FFM flooding
[edit | edit source]Umbilical fouling or snag
[edit | edit source]Severed or pinched umbilical
[edit | edit source]Loss of gas supply or contaminated gas supply==