Diving Industry Personnel Competence Standards - European ...

� Carry out the pre dive checks properly on all equipment
� Operate high pressure compressors properly, including checks, simple maintenance
and testing for air purity
� Correctly charge up breathing air cylinders ready for use
� Assist another diver to dress correctly and put on all equipment ready to enter the
water
� Dress themselves and don all equipment needed to enter the water as a diver
� Correctly remove all equipment and undress on completion of a dive
� Assist another diver to remove equipment and undress after a dive
� Carry out all necessary post dive equipment checks
� Correctly clean equipment after use, carry out simple maintenance and store ready
for subsequent use
4.2.5 First Aid
� Understand how to provide first aid in a diving situation
� Demonstrate the ability to provide basic emergency procedures such as CPR (see
definition)
� Assess the status of a diving casualty and establish their needs for assistance and
treatment
� Assist in the treatment, under supervision, of diving related illness and conditions
4.2.6 Chamber Operations
� Understand the procedures for operating a two compartment compression chamber
under supervision
� Understand the pre-dive procedures necessary for using a two compartment
compression chamber
� Act as an inside attendant in a compression chamber
� Understand the conduct of a therapeutic recompression
� Understand the post dive checks and user maintenance needed after using a two
compartment compression chamber
Note: The above competences are based on diving using compressed air as the breathing mixture. Divers intending
to use different breathing mixtures or complex equipment such as rebreathers will require to demonstrate the
additional competences necessary for these activities.
EDTC Competence Standards March 2003 Page 7