Equipment checklists by diving mode

This is not a complete list or an inspection standard. Use the standard and the manufacturer's instructions.

These are general categories to help you build your own checklist. What is actually required, and how it is examined and certified, is set by the standard for your project:

• IMCA D 014, IMCA D 018 (plant examination and certification) and the IMCA DESIGN documents (D 023, D 024, D 037);
• HSE L103/L104;
• OSHA 1910.430 (equipment);
• the ADCI Consensus Standards;
• AS/NZS 2299.1;
• NORSOK U-100.

We do not recommend any brand.

Categories for every mode

• Primary and reserve breathing gas. Gas for the plan plus the reserves the standard requires, every gas analysed and labelled, and compressor air-quality test records.
• The diver's emergency gas supply (bailout). Present, charged, analysed, checked by the diver and recorded.
• Dive control and communications.
  • Diver-to-surface comms tested before each dive, with back-up comms.
  • Depth monitored with the dive system's instrument, such as a pneumofathometer. A phone does not measure depth.
  • Comms and depth recorded.
• Umbilicals and lines. Inspection and test records, correct make-up, length markings.
• Helmets and masks. Pre-dive checks to the manufacturer's instructions, and maintenance records.
• Standby diver equipment. Dressed in and equivalent to the working diver's.
• Launch and recovery. Stage, basket, ladder or LARS, with lifting certification and a plan for recovering an injured diver.
• Chamber or decompression facility. Available as the standard requires for the depth and decompression in the plan, with its own records.
• First aid and oxygen. A first aid kit, oxygen for administration, trained people, the emergency contact list and the nearest hyperbaric facility.
• Rescue. A rescue plan, the means to recover an unconscious diver, and records of drills.
• Plant examination and certification records. Current, in date and available on site (see IMCA D 018).

Notes by mode

In DIVEOPS PRO

Record the checks you did in your dive plan. DIVEOPS PRO stores records. It does not inspect, certify or measure anything, and it does not plan decompression.

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General information, not legal, medical or safety advice. Your legal duties, the applicable standard and your own risk assessment govern. See the standard. Rules and standards change: check the current official text.