Objective: Understand how the operational dive team functions during normal operations and emergencies.

Knowledge: Explain roles and responsibilities, MERP requirements, response times, and documentation procedures.

Skills: Apply correct communication, handover and reporting steps during emergency scenarios.

Objective: Identify common causes of diving accidents and apply prevention strategies.

Knowledge: Explain how accidents occur and how safe procedures reduce risk.

Skills: Apply accident prevention thinking to hazard identification and operational decision-making.

Objective: Recognise decompression illness risks and understand response priorities.

Knowledge: Explain types of decompression illness and early warning signs.

Skills: Apply correct escalation actions and reporting procedures when DCI is suspected.

Objective: Identify barotrauma risks affecting divers and equipment and apply prevention strategies.

Knowledge: Explain causes, symptoms, and prevention of ear, sinus, dental, lung, and equipment barotrauma.

Skills: Apply safe equalisation and dive decisions to prevent barotrauma and respond appropriately to injury.

Objective: Identify gas toxicity risks and recognise symptoms relevant to diving operations.

Knowledge: Explain hypercapnia, anoxia/hypoxia, nitrogen narcosis, and carbon monoxide exposure.

Skills: Apply correct immediate response actions and escalation procedures for gas toxicity scenarios.

Divers face risks from environmental conditions, including currents and sea state, which can lead to being thrown against structures, swept away, or entangled in lines.

Objective: Understand environmental emergency risks and apply safe first response priorities.

Knowledge: Explain risks such as drowning, marine injuries, thermal problems, dehydration, and sea sickness.

Skills: Apply correct emergency response actions and casualty care priorities for environmental incidents.

Objective: Apply trauma management priorities to common diving injuries.

Knowledge: Explain management priorities for fractures, bleeding control, and shock.

Skills: Demonstrate correct decision-making for trauma response and casualty stabilisation.

Objective: Apply diving physics laws to understanding injury risks and safe decision-making.

Knowledge: Explain Dalton’s, Henry’s, and Boyle’s Laws and their relevance to diving emergencies.

Skills: Apply physics concepts to scenario-based problem-solving and prevention decisions.

Objective: Understand the purpose of recompression and why early escalation improves outcomes.

Knowledge: Explain the role of recompression in treating diving illness and injury.

Skills: Apply correct escalation and reporting actions when recompression treatment may be required.

Objective: Apply correct documentation and reporting procedures for diving incidents.

Knowledge: Explain why accurate incident reporting is essential for safety and legal compliance.

Skills: Demonstrate correct reporting and documentation steps using workplace standards.

Objective: Demonstrate competence in diving emergency response knowledge through formative assessment.

Knowledge: Explain key injuries, risks, and emergency response procedures relevant to diving operations.

Skills: Apply correct response priorities and decision-making in assessment questions and scenarios.

Objective: Demonstrate competence in PDFA diving content through summative examination.

Knowledge: Explain diving accident risks, emergency response procedures, and injury management principles.

Skills: Apply accurate decision-making and response priorities to scenario-based exam questions.