DM chapter 2 Supervising Diving Activities

Question 1

What are the DM’s broad planning and briefing based on?

Answer 1

Evaluation of conditions.

Knowledge of divers based on what they said, general observations, log books and certification levels.

Question 2

Reason for providing diver with guidelines (broad plan).

Answer 2

Allows individual buddy teams to plan their own dives.

Question 3

Components of broad plan (orient divers to site and its conditions).

Answer 3

Temperature
Current
Thermoclines
Bottom composition
Hazards
Emergencies

Question 4

Individual divers are responsible for planning their own dives because -

Answer 4

Divers will bear the consequences of the plan.

They know their experience and comfort level, so determine their own limits.

Conditions can and do change, divers must be able to revise the plan.

DMs can’t control divers, they are responsible for their own actions.