APPENDIX 9

AAUS CHECKOUT DIVE AND TRAINING EVALUATION

Certified scientific divers and Divers-In-Training from AAUS organizational members should be able to demonstrate proficiency in the following skills during checkout dives or training evaluation dives with the Dive Safety Officer or designee:

___ Knowledge of AAUS diving standards and regulations

___ Pre-dive planning, briefing, site orientation, and buddy check

___ Use of dive tables and/or dive computer

___ Equipment familiarity

___ Underwater signs and signals

___ Proper buddy contact

___ Monitor cylinder pressure, depth, bottom time

___ Swim skills:

___ Surface dive to 10 ft. without scuba gear

___ Demonstrate watermanshp and snorkel skills

___ Surface swim without swim aids (400 yd. <12min)

___ Underwater swim without swim aids (25 yd. without surfacing)

___ Tread water w/o swim aids (10 min.), or w/out use of hands (2 min.)

___ Transport another swimmer without swim aids (25yd)

___ Entry and exit (pool, boat, shore)

___ Mask removal and clearing

___ Regulator removal and clearing

___ Surface swim with scuba; alternate between snorkel and regulator (400 yd.)

___ Neutral buoyancy (hover motionless in midwater)

___ Proper descent and ascent with B.C.

___ Remove and replace weight belt while submerged

___ Remove and replace scuba cylinder while submerged

___ Alternate air source breathing with and without mask (donor/receiver)

___ Buddy breathing with and without mask (donor/receiver)

___ Simulated emergency swimming ascent

___ Compass and underwater navigation

___ Simulated decompression and safety stop

___ Rescue

___ Self rescue techniques

___ Tows of conscious and unconscious victim

___ Simulated in-water rescue breathing

___ Rescue of submerged non-breathing diver (including equipment removal, simulated rescue breathing, towing, and recovery to boat or shore)

___ Use of emergency oxygen on breathing and non-breathing victim

___ Accident management and evacuation procedures

Additional Training (optional)

___ Compressor/ Fill station orientation and usage

___ Small boat handling

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