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

Schedule Disposition versions

2012-09-01

SCHEDULE 4.1

(ss. 5 and 9)

CONTENT OF EXAMINATIONS – CLASS D DIVER

THEORETICAL EXAMINATION

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

— 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.

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

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.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN SWIMMING POOL OR IN OPEN WATER

— 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 barotraumas, perforation of the tympanic membrane, cold shock, marine animal bites and stings, injury to the vertebral column, decompression sickness.

PRACTICAL EXAMINATION IN OPEN WATER

— Ability to correctly and efficiently display all of the diving skills listed in Schedules 2, 3 and 4 under the heading “Practical examination in open water”.

— 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-up dive.

— Demonstrate the complete rescue of a diver, wearing a scuba system, over a distance of 100 m, assist a diver simulating distress and tow a diver in difficulty to shore.

— Demonstrate the complete rescue of an unconscious submerged diver (assistance to a diver until the diver is out of water).

M.O. 2011-01-31, s. 14.