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Plan and carry out a dive to search and recover a light object on a marine farm

Level / 4
Credits / 10

Purpose People credited with this unit standard are able to plan and carry out a dive to search and recover a light object on a marine farm, and complete recording and reporting requirements for the dive.

Subfield / Seafood
Domain / Aquaculture Diving
Status / Registered
Status date / 20 November 2009
Date version published / 20 November 2009
Planned review date / 31 December 2014
Entry information / Prerequisites: Unit 4387, Perform diver rescues or PADI Rescue Diver qualification; Unit 4385, Navigate prescribed routes underwater; Unit 4388, Complete a night dive; Unit 4393, Complete underwater search and recovery dives; Unit 4398, Complete deep dives to between 18 and 40 metres, and perform tasks; and Unit 21344, Explain health and safety legislation and the application of best practice to aquaculture diving; or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Accreditation / Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) / Primary Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference / 0123

This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.

Special notes

1 Industry technical requirements and safety criteria are contained within the New Zealand Aquaculture Industry Diving Best Practice Guidelines 2004, available from Aquaculture New Zealand, Level 1, Wakatu House, Montgomery Square, Nelson 7010 (http://www.aquaculture.org.nz). This is referred to as the Diving Best Practice Guidelines in this unit standard.

2 The assessment of element two must be carried out in underwater visibility conditions that are common for aquaculture industry diving.

3 Definitions

A light object refers to one that is able to be lifted without assistance, ie approximately 6kg or less.

Company requirements refer to instructions to staff on policy and procedures that are communicated in an oral or written form. These must include the requirements of the Diving Best Practice Guidelines.

Legislation includes but is not limited to – the occupational diving related aspects of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.

PADI refers to the Professional Association of Diving Instructors.

Elements and performance criteria

Element 1

Plan a dive to search and recover a light object on a marine farm.

Performance criteria

1.1 The reasons for planning a dive to search and recover a light object are explained in accordance with company requirements and safety criteria.

Range safety focus of divers, legislation.

1.2 Potential hazards associated with the search and recovery of a light object and the remedial actions are explained.

Range hazards may include but are not limited to – environmental hazards, marine organisms, limited visibility, disorientation, current strength, entanglement, strenuous activity;

evidence of four hazards is required;

remedial actions include action taken to eliminate, isolate or minimise the hazard, such as – decision not to dive, decision not to recover object, access to safety equipment, communication plan, use of diver location device, emergency plan.

1.3 The dive plan for the search and recovery of the light object is completed in accordance with company requirements and safety criteria.

Range includes but is not limited to – fitness and capability of the dive team, personnel numbers, surface conditions, diving platform and vantage points, in-water conditions, depth, equipment, bottom topography, communication signals, object being searched for, selection of search technique.

Element 2

Carry out a dive to search and recover a light object on a marine farm.

Performance criteria

2.1 A pre-dive check is demonstrated in accordance with company requirements and safety criteria.

2.2 The procedure for in-water disentanglement of a diver is explained in accordance with company requirements.

Range self, another diver.

2.3 The dive to search and recover the light object is carried out in accordance with the dive plan and company requirements.

Range search patterns may include but are not limited to – linear, circular, U pattern, jackstay.

2.4 Communication signals are given, received, and responded to as agreed in the dive plan.

2.5 The object is located and recovered in accordance with company requirements.

Element 3

Complete recording and reporting requirements for the dive.

Performance criteria

3.1 Recording and reporting requirements are completed in accordance with OSH and company requirements.

Range includes but is not limited to – personal logbook, company logbook, reporting schedule.

Please note

Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.

Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.

Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.

Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.

Comments on this unit standard

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Ó New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2014