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

Schedule Disposition versions

2012-09-01

SCHEDULE 5

(ss. 5 and 9)

CONTENT OF EXAMINATIONS – CLASS A INSTRUCTOR

THEORETICAL EXAMINATION

— Content listed in Schedule 4 under the heading “Theoretical examination”.

— Ability to explain oral presentation techniques, to plan a lesson, to establish learning objectives and to use training aids.

— Basic educational principles and the psychology of teaching.

— Ability to explain the structure, by-laws and services of the designated organization.

— Ability to explain the principles of planning and organizing a dive, the operation of clubs and other group activities.

— Safety requirements during swimming pool and open water lessons.

— Water supervision techniques specific to diving.

— Appropriate rescue techniques to assist a swimmer or a diver in difficulty and the first aid to be given.

— Planning a lesson in open water, identifying potentially dangerous situations and emergency and cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures.

— The instructor’s ethical and civil responsibility.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN CLASSROOM

— Ability to teach at least 3 prepared lessons, lasting at least 60 minutes total, and to react appropriately to different situations that may arise.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN SWIMMING POOL

— Scuba self-rescue skills and techniques and efficient and correct use of rescue techniques to assist or rescue a diver simulating distress.

— Ability to teach at least 3 prepared lessons lasting at least 30 minutes total and to react appropriately to different situations that may arise.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN SWIMMING POOL OR IN OPEN WATER

— With no diving equipment, swim underwater 25 m without surfacing, with no dive or push-off.

— With no diving equipment, swim freestyle 400 m nonstop in less than 10 minutes.

— With no diving equipment, tread water for 20 minutes.

— With no diving equipment, tow another person of equal weight 50 m nonstop.

— Ability to correctly and efficiently display all of the diving skills listed in Schedule 2 under the heading “Practical examination in open water”.

— Ability to appropriately simulate first aid that must be given to a swimmer or a diver in the following conditions: unconsciousness, near-drowning, pulmonary barotrauma, perforation of the tympanic membrane, cold shock, marine animal bites and stings, injury to the vertebral column, decompression sickness.

— With snorkelling equipment, swim 800 m nonstop in less than 18 minutes, without using hands.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN OPEN WATER

— Buoyancy control at the surface and under water while scuba diving.

— Using a scuba system, tow a diver wearing a scuba system 100 m.

— Organizing a dive, evaluating a site and outlining a diving plan, checking diving equipment, installing a dive flag to mark out a site and making a check dive.

— Diving rescue skills and techniques, including the complete rescue of a diver over a distance of 100 m, assistance to a diver simulating distress and towing a diver in difficulty to shore.

— Ability to teach at least 3 prepared lessons lasting at least 30 minutes total and react appropriately to different situations that may arise.

M.O. 2002-01, Sch. 5.