Commercial diving/Surface-supplied diving
Relevance: Surface supplied diving, Surface oriented wet bell diving.
Required outcomes:
- Discuss the advantages, applications and limitations of air and mixed gas diving, including nitrox, heliox and trimix and the use of oxygen for accelerated in-water and surface decompression
- Describe equipment inspection and testing requirements for SSDE
- Discuss the important of planned maintenance and repair of surface supplied diving equipment
- Discuss minimum personnel requirements for surface supplied diving operations
- Describe individual and diving team responsibilities for surface supplied diving
- Discuss breathing gas planning and supplies for surface supplied diving operations, including primary gas supply, bailout, reserves and medical oxygen
- Discuss minimum gas requirements for surface supplied diving operations, including bailout, reserves and medical oxygen