Dive Activities Oversight Skills: Briefing, Supervision, Communication Techniques

1. Unit 9:Conducting Diving Activities • Overseeing Dives • Dive briefings and debriefings • Overseeing Boat Dives • Overseeing Shore Dives • Overseeing Specialty Diving

2. Student Performance:By the end of the lesson you will be able to: • Oversee and supervise various diving activities. • Utilize dive leadership communication techniques. • Conduct dive briefings and debriefings. • Supervise boat diving activities. • Conduct shore diving activities. • Conduct night and other specialty dives.

3. Overseeing Dives • Overseeing and direct supervision • Awareness • Evaluating conditions

4. Overseeing Dives (continued) • Leadership communication • Pre-dive equipment inspections

5. Briefings and debriefings • Purposes • Organize and coordinate a complex activity • Motivate good behavior • Establish rapport • Give important safety information • Gain the group’s attention and avoid distractions • Be brief

6. Briefings and debriefings (continued) • Common elements of a briefing • Introductions • Area orientation • Activity schedule • Instructions • Communications • Emergency procedures • Questions and answers

7. Briefings and debriefings (continued) • Common elements of a debriefing • In training • Restate objectives • Discuss overall performance • Recognize good performance • Resolution of problems • Key points to remember • Questions and answers • For certified divers • Part of next dive briefing or a short post-dive summary

8. Overseeing Boat Dives • Pre-departure tasks • Greet passengers • Assign accommodations and stowage • Complete paperwork and waivers • Pre-departure briefing • Pre-departure preparations • Roll call • Cylinders and heavy gear secured • Loose gear stowed • Camera equipment secured • Everything shipshape

9. Overseeing Boat Dives (continued) • Controlling seasickness • Dive preparations • Prepare entry area • Rig lines • Display appropriate signals and flags • Deploy “deco tank” for safety stops

10. Overseeing Boat Dives (continued) • Pre-boat-dive briefings • Entry and exit procedures • Lost gear recovery

11. Overseeing Boat Dives (continued) • Checking divers out and in • Cylinder counts • Buddy board • Roll call • Open-gate entry, stern check-in • The personal touch • The cattle chute approach

12. Overseeing Boat Dives (continued) • Diver retrieval • Open water training dives from boats • Profiling • Post-dive activities

13. Overseeing Shore Dives • Site preparation • Pre-shore-dive briefings • Seasickness • Shore-based training dives • Post-dive activities

14. Overseeing Specialty Diving • Night dives • Site selection • Site preparation ashore • Night diving boat preparation • Night diving equipment • Night diving briefings • Other night diving considerations

15. Overseeing Specialty Diving (continued) • Limited visibility dives • Disorientation is possible • Good navigation skills are required • Emphasize buddy contact • Select calm areas • Emphasize maintaining a bottom reference • Diving in currents • Current briefings

16. Overseeing Specialty Diving (continued) • Diving in currents (continued) • Drift dives • Float drift diving procedures • Anchor line drift diving • Liveboating • River diving

17. Overseeing Specialty Diving (continued) • Deeper dives • Extra precautions • Deep diving supervision considerations

18. Overseeing Specialty Diving (continued) • Wreck dives • Wreck diving procedures • Wreck dive briefings

19. End of Unit 9Conducting Diving Activities • Overseeing Dives • Dive briefings and debriefings • Overseeing Boat Dives • Overseeing Shore Dives • Overseeing Specialty Diving

20. Student Performance:By the end of the lesson you will be able to: • Oversee and supervise various diving activities • Utilize dive leadership communication techniques. • Conduct dive briefings and debriefings. • Conduct dive briefings and debriefings. • Supervise boat diving activities. • Conduct shore diving activities. • Conduct night and other specialty dives.