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This document provides information on search and recovery diving including potential hazards, planning steps, search patterns, use of lift bags, and procedures for controlling objects. It discusses the six potential hazards of search and recovery diving which include sharp objects, entanglement, low visibility, currents, sinking objects, and boat traffic. It also outlines the five general steps in planning a dive which are to define the objective, collect and analyze information, choose scuba or snorkel, select a buddy or team, and conduct a briefing. Search patterns like the expanded square and circular rope search are described along with explanations for their appropriate uses. Guidelines are provided around never using a buoyancy control device for lifting and why commercially made lift bags that have exhaust valves and

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Questions AOW S&R

This document provides information on search and recovery diving including potential hazards, planning steps, search patterns, use of lift bags, and procedures for controlling objects. It discusses the six potential hazards of search and recovery diving which include sharp objects, entanglement, low visibility, currents, sinking objects, and boat traffic. It also outlines the five general steps in planning a dive which are to define the objective, collect and analyze information, choose scuba or snorkel, select a buddy or team, and conduct a briefing. Search patterns like the expanded square and circular rope search are described along with explanations for their appropriate uses. Guidelines are provided around never using a buoyancy control device for lifting and why commercially made lift bags that have exhaust valves and

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Knowledge Review Search & Recovery Dive

1. Describe a recreational search and recovery diver.


2. List the six potential hazards of search and recovery diving.
1. Sharp objects and debris
2. Entanglement
3. Low Visibility
4. Currents
. Sin!ing "eco#ered $bjects
%. &oat 'ra((ic
3. List the five general steps in planning a search and recovery dive.
1. )e(ine the objecti#e
2. Collect and analyse in(ormation
3. Choose scuba or Snor!el
4. Select buddy or 'eam
. &rie(ing
4. Briefly describe when to use an expanded square and a search pattern.
!xpanded "quare# * +sed (or (inding medium si,e objects in rough terrain in
reasonably calm water
$% "earch: * +sed (or (inding small or large objects primarily in clam water o#er
a relati#ely (lat unobstructed bottom
&. Briefly describe when to use and how to execute a circular rope search.
+sed to co#er an area using a central point. 'he search grid will be per(ormed
by spooling out a speci(ic amount o( line- then swimming in a cloc!wise or
counter*cloc!wise direction (or a 3%. degree sweep. 'he buddy will act as a
center pi#ot. +pon a (ull sweep- additional line e/ual to %.*0.1 o( the
#isibility range is paid out and another 3%. degree sweep is per(ormed.
6. !xplain why you should never use your B'D for lifting ob(ects.
2((ects the di#er3s buoyancy control- and may put the di#er at ris! (rom an
uncontrolled ascent i( contact with the object is lost during ascent.
). *dentify the weight at which use of a lift bag beco+e +andatory.
2nything more than 4 !g
8. List three reasons why co++ercially,+ade lift bags should be used for recovering underwater
ob(ects.
1. "eliability o( commercially made bags
2. Commercially made li(t bags ha#e e4haust #al#es
3. commercially made li(t bags ha#e slings- loops etc. (or rigging.
9. !xplain the procedures for controlling- rigging and lifting an ob(ect while using a lift bag.
1.. *dentify which air source should you use to filling a lift bag/
2lternate 2ir Source
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