Unit 9: Conducting Diving Activities

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Unit 9Conducting Diving Activities

• Overseeing Dives
• Dive briefings and debriefings
• Overseeing Boat Dives
• Overseeing Shore Dives
• Overseeing Specialty Diving

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Student PerformanceBy the end of the lesson you
will be able to

• Oversee and supervise various diving activities.
• Utilize dive leadership communication techniques.
• Conduct dive briefings and debriefings.
• Supervise boat diving activities.
• Conduct shore diving activities.
• Conduct night and other specialty dives.

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Overseeing Dives

• Overseeing and direct supervision
• Awareness
• Evaluating conditions

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Overseeing Dives (continued)

• Leadership communication
• Pre-dive equipment inspections

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Briefings and debriefings

• Purposes
• Organize and coordinate a complex activity
• Motivate good behavior
• Establish rapport
• Give important safety information
• Gain the groups attention and avoid distractions
• Be brief

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Briefings and debriefings (continued)

• Common elements of a briefing
• Introductions
• Area orientation
• Activity schedule
• Instructions
• Communications
• Emergency procedures
• Questions and answers

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Briefings and debriefings (continued)

• Common elements of a debriefing
• In training
• Restate objectives
• Discuss overall performance
• Recognize good performance
• Resolution of problems
• Key points to remember
• Questions and answers
• For certified divers
• Part of next dive briefing or a short post-dive
  summary

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Overseeing Boat Dives

• Pre-departure tasks
• Greet passengers
• Assign accommodations and stowage
• Complete paperwork and waivers
• Pre-departure briefing
• Pre-departure preparations
• Roll call
• Cylinders and heavy gear secured
• Loose gear stowed
• Camera equipment secured
• Everything shipshape

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Overseeing Boat Dives (continued)

• Controlling seasickness
• Dive preparations
• Prepare entry area
• Rig lines
• Display appropriate signals and flags
• Deploy deco tank for safety stops

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Overseeing Boat Dives (continued)

• Pre-boat-dive briefings
• Entry and exit procedures
• Lost gear recovery

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Overseeing Boat Dives (continued)

• Checking divers out and in
• Cylinder counts
• Buddy board
• Roll call
• Open-gate entry, stern check-in
• The personal touch
• The cattle chute approach

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Overseeing Boat Dives (continued)

• Diver retrieval
• Open water training dives from boats
• Profiling
• Post-dive activities

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Overseeing Shore Dives

• Site preparation
• Pre-shore-dive briefings
• Seasickness
• Shore-based training dives
• Post-dive activities

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Overseeing Specialty Diving

• Night dives
• Site selection
• Site preparation ashore
• Night diving boat preparation
• Night diving equipment
• Night diving briefings
• Other night diving considerations

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Overseeing Specialty Diving (continued)

• Limited visibility dives
• Disorientation is possible
• Good navigation skills are required
• Emphasize buddy contact
• Select calm areas
• Emphasize maintaining a bottom reference
• Diving in currents
• Current briefings

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Overseeing Specialty Diving (continued)

• Diving in currents (continued)
• Drift dives
• Float drift diving procedures
• Anchor line drift diving
• Liveboating
• River diving

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Overseeing Specialty Diving (continued)

• Deeper dives
• Extra precautions
• Deep diving supervision considerations

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Overseeing Specialty Diving (continued)

• Wreck dives
• Wreck diving procedures
• Wreck dive briefings

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End of Unit 9Conducting Diving Activities

• Overseeing Dives
• Dive briefings and debriefings
• Overseeing Boat Dives
• Overseeing Shore Dives
• Overseeing Specialty Diving

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Student PerformanceBy the end of the lesson you
will be able to

• Oversee and supervise various diving activities
• Utilize dive leadership communication techniques.
• Conduct dive briefings and debriefings.
• Conduct dive briefings and debriefings.
• Supervise boat diving activities.
• Conduct shore diving activities.
• Conduct night and other specialty dives.