S-3.1, r. 8 - By-law respecting qualifications for recreational underwater diving

Schedule Disposition versions

2012-09-01

SCHEDULE 3

(ss. 4 and 8)

CONTENT OF EXAMINATIONS – CLASS B DIVER

THEORETICAL EXAMINATION

— Content listed in Schedule 2 under the heading “Theoretical examination”.

— Appropriate selection and use of the various specialized equipment required for recreational underwater diving at the Class B diver level including compass, dive light and digital decompression device (dive computer).

— Environmental phenomena that may influence a dive including currents and tides.

— Principles of underwater navigation, including the use of a compass and the use of natural references at the bottom.

— Principles of compressed breathing gas consumption, including the calculation of the volume of compressed breathing gas available to a diver according to the planned dive.

— Basic principles related to planning and engaging in night diving, current diving, limited visibility diving and deep diving.

— Safety requirements in various conditions of recreational underwater diving at the Class B diver level, including a description of the required equipment and precautionary measures.

— Principles underlying the action to take in case of emergency decompression.

— Reading and using of a decompression table in recreational underwater diving.

— Basic knowledge and precautions with respect to specialty diving including ice diving, wreck diving (with penetration), diving with compressed breathing gas other than air, diving using a closed circuit or semi-closed circuit scuba system, cave and cavern diving and other types of more technical diving.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN OPEN WATER

— Ability to correctly and efficiently display all the diving skills referred to in Schedule 2 under the heading “Practical examination in open water”, adapted to Class B diver conditions for night diving, deep diving (up to 30 m/100 ft) and limited visibility diving.

— Ability to plan a night dive and a limited visibility dive, and to observe the safety requirements applicable to these dives.

— Ability to plan an exploration dive using underwater navigation skills, demonstrate the use of a compass and navigation techniques using natural references.

— Ability to plan a dive observing no-decompression limits to a depth of between 18 and 30 m, with a decompression stop simulation at a depth of 5 m during the ascent.

M.O. 2002-01, Sch. 3; M.O. 2011-01-31, s. 12.