3.5 Training
3.5.1 The operator is responsible for ensuring
that personnel (including the pilot, crew and maintenance staff) are
at all times adequately trained. Such training should include theoretical,
practical and operational aspects of passenger submersible craft and
procedures to be adopted in emergency situations. The training should,
where applicable, include the following subjects as deemed necessary
to suit the particular type of craft.
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3.5.1.1
Life support
The properties and effects of carbon dioxide, high and low levels
of oxygen, carbon monoxide and other gases which could be present
in the craft, gas concentrations, oxygen systems, colour coding of
gas bottles, methods of carbon dioxide removal and effects of humidity
and shelf life on the efficiency of the CO2 absorbent.
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3.5.1.2
Buoyancy and stability
Buoyancy, payload, basic stability and factors affecting stability
in both normal and emergency situations.
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3.5.1.3
Navigation
The use of surface and sub-surface navigational equipment, effects
of currents and tides, seamanship and Collision Regulations.
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3.5.1.4
Communications
Surface and sub-surface communication systems, effects of thermal
layering on sub-surface communications and the use of standard communication
vocabulary.
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3.5.1.5
Power sources and electrical arrangements
Batteries and battery charging, explosive hazards and ignition
sources, particularly in battery compartments, circuit protection
devices, emergency power sources, ground/earth fault detection, fault
currents from batteries and pressure compensating arrangements for
batteries exposed to sea pressure.
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3.5.1.6
Emergency planning
Fires and their causes, fire extinguishing systems and their
environmental effects, flooding, entanglement, available life support,
toxic hazards, loss of communication, loss of power, physical and
physiological effects on passengers and crew subject to prolonged
periods underwater when subject to sensory, perceptive or thermal
deprivation, control of passengers and means to avoid panic, claustrophobia
and hypothermia.
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3.5.1.7
Personnel responsibilities
Allocation of duties, chain of command in normal and emergency
situations, familiarization with local, national and international
requirements.
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3.5.1.8
Practical and operational training
The operational training of crew members should be under direct
supervision of an experienced pilot and culminate in practical and
operational tests including simulated emergency situations.
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