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3.00 Diving Equipment
3.10 General Policy
3.20 Equipment
3.21 Regulators
3.22 Breathing Masks and Helmets
3.23 SCUBA Cylinders
3.24 Backpacks and Harnesses
3.25 Gauges
3.26 Flotation Devices
3.27 Timing Devices, Depth and Pressure Gauges
3.28 Determination of Decompression Status:
Dive Tables and Computers
3.30 Auxiliary Equipment
3.31 Hand Held Underwater Power Tools
3.40 Support Equipment
3.41 First Aid Supplies
3.42 Diver's Flag
3.43 Campus Controlled Compressor Systems
3.44 Oxygen Systems
3.50 Equipment Maintenance
3.51 Recordkeeping
3.52 Compressor Operation and Air Test Records
3.60 Air Quality
Standards
4.00 Entry-level Training
Requirements
4.10 Evaluation
4.11 Medical Evaluation
4.12 Swimming Evaluation
4.20 SCUBA Training
4.21 Practical Training
4.22 Written Examination
4.23 Open Water Evaluation
4.30 Diver-in-training
Permit Level
5.00 Scientific Diver Certification
5.10 Certification
Types
5.20 General Policy
5.21 Prerequisites
5.22 Eligibility
5.23 Application
5.24 Medical Examination
5.30 Requirements
for Scientific Diver Certification
5.31 Documents
5.32 Training
5.33 Examinations
5.40 Depth Certifications
5.41 Depth Certification Levels
5.42 Exceeeding Depth Limits and Progression
to Next Depth Level
5.50 Continuation
of Certificate
5.51 Minimum Activity to Maintain Certificate
5.52 Requalification fo Depth Certificate
5.53 Medical Examination
5.60 Revocation of
Depth Certificate
5.70 Recertifcation
6.00 Medical Standards
6.10 Medical Requirements
6.11 General
6.12 Frequency of Medical Evaluations
6.13 Information Provided Examining Physician
6.14 Content of Medical Evaluations
6.15 Conditions for which Restriction from
Diving is Recommended
6.16 Laboratory Requirements for Diving Medical
Evaluation
6.17 Physician's Written Report
7.00 Other Diving Technology
7.10 Staged Decompression
Diving
7.20 Saturation Diving
7.30 Hookah
7.40 Surface Supplied
Diving
7.50 Closed and Semi-closed
Ciruit SCUBA (Rebreathers)
7.60 Mixed Gas Diving
7.70 Blue Water Diving
7.80 Ice and Polar
Diving
7.90 Overhead Environments
Appendix 1 - Diving Medical Exam Overview
for the Examining Physician
Appendix 2 - Medical Evaluation of Fitness
for SCUBA Diving Report
Appendix 3 - Diving Medical History Form
Appendix 4 - Medical History Questions Evaluation
Form
Appendix 5 - Recommended Physicians with
Expertise in Diving Medicine
Appendix 6 - Selected References in Diving
Medicine
Appendix 7 - Definition of Terms
Appendix 8 - AAUS Request for Diving Reciproctiy
Form
Appendix 9 - Checkout Dive and Training
Evaluation
Appendix 10 - Diving Emergency Management
Procedures
Appendix 11 - Guidelines for the use of
Dive Computers
Appendix 12 - Safe Ascent Recommendations
Created by: Brian Schlining
Last Revision: 4 January 2001
This Page: http://www.mlml.calstate.edu/groups/diving/manual.htm