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7) Umbilical hose pressure and | Diver’s Umbilical cut or severed. | Replace diver’s hose. |
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5.0APPENDIX
5.1EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
The following are general recommended emergency procedures. However, it is up to the individual diver and dive supervisor to make judgements under specific conditions on how to best cope with particular situations.
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1) | Loss of communications | a) Abort dive if operations are not absolutly necessary. |
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2) | Loss of primary air supply. | Switch to emergency backup system and abort dive. |
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3) | Diver’s umbilical severed. | a) Diver switches to bailout bottle and aborts dive. |
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4) Pneumo will not operate.
a)Dive hose should be marked with colored tape every 10 feet. Take depth readings from this. (will only be approximate)
b)Diver’s personal depth gauge can provide back up.
5.2DIVER LINE PULL SIGNALS
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| “Are you all right?” | “I am all right”, or ... |
1 | When diver is descending, one | “I am on the bottom” |
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“Going down”
2During ascent, this means, “You have come up too far, go back down until we stop you.”
“Lower me down”, or “Give me slack”
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