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AS/NZS 2299.2:2002

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Occupational diving operations – Scientific diving

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AS 2002-04-04 81
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Specifies requirements for personnel, equipment and procedures for diving performed as part of professional scientific research, natural resource management or scientific research as an educational activity. Appendices include competency of divers and training requirements, diving operations manual content, hand and lifeline signals, guidance on hazard identification, risk assessment and control, and exposure to altitude following diving.

Scope

This Standard specifies requirements for occupational underwater diving operations performed at a place of work for the purpose of professional scientific research, natural resource management or scientific research as an educational activity. This Standard applies to diving in water to depths not exceeding 39 m in the case of no-decompression diving and 30 m otherwise, where breathing gas is supplied through either self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) or surface-supplied breathing apparatus (SSBA).
NOTE: Without limiting the scope of this Standard, there may be diving tasks or situations which require a scientific diver to operate under other diving standards.
This Standard includes requirements and recommendations for personnel, procedures and the equipment and breathing medium supply utilized, together with appendices containing the following:
(a) Personal records of divers.
(b) Examples of employer’s records of dives.
(c) Contents of a diving operations manual.
(d) Hand signals.
(e) Lifeline signals.
(f) Qualification levels for scientific divers.

AS/NZS 2299.2:2002
$61.75