Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
South Africa – Diving regulations to the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993, authorised by the Minister of Labour. [1] [4] The South African diving regulations regulate professional diving using breathing apparatus, and specifically exclude instruction of recreational divers and recreational dive leadership. [4]
Diving attendant – Member of a dive team responsible for assisting the diver; Diving at Work Regulations 1997 – UK legislation regulating all aspects of professional diving; Diving basket – Platform for lowering and lifting a diver through the water; Diving bell – Chamber for transporting divers vertically through the water
Diving Regulations, 2009 [12] DR2009 regulates all commercial diving operations and training, including military and other professional diving, inshore, inland and offshore, but explicitly exclude recreational diver training and dive shop operations, which are generally covered by the Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993. Superseded by ...
A diving operation is a professional dive and the activity in preparation for, and in support of, the specific dive. The diving operation is controlled by the diving supervisor, is expected to follow the dive plan, is conducted by the diving team, and is recorded in the diving operations record (though the terms may have regional variations).
NASDS (USA) - National Association of Scuba Diving Schools only USA (Founded in the 1960s and merged with SSI in 1999) [29] TAC - The Aquatic Club - existed in the UK between 1982 and 1986. dissolved organization [30] YMCA SCUBA – Defunct recreational diver training and certification agency (1959-2008). [31] [32]
In the UK the Diving at Work Regulations specifically include training of recreational divers, [3] while in the US and South Africa, the professional diving regulations specifically exclude recreational diving instruction, [2] but in South Africa the work is covered by the general constraints of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993.
Recreational diving limit for divers aged under 12 years old and EN 14153-1 / ISO 24801-1 level 1 (Supervised Diver) standard. [13] 18 m (60 ft) Recreational diving limit for Open Water Divers (e.g. PADI, NAUI). 20 m (66 ft) Recreational diving limit for EN 14153-2 ISO 24801-2 level 2 "Autonomous Diver" standard. [14] 21 m (69 ft)
As diving is an activity that is considered to put the diver at a higher than normal risk to health, in the UK all diving at work, including scientific diving, is regulated through the Diving at Work Regulations, 1997 and the associated approved codes of practice, which are implemented by the Health and Safety Executive. The code of practice ...