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Scientific diving

The scientific diving program is based on the  standards. This program assists researchers in safely performing underwater studies using the various forms of diving as a scientific tool. The scientific diving program is outlined in the UVic Scientific Diving Safety Manual for Open Water Diving.

UVic Scientific Diving Safety Manual for Open Water Diving
1.51MB PDF file

All scientific divers and/or snorkelers must have, or be affiliated with, a planned or approved project before being accepted into the program and beginning underwater research. You are recommended to submit your project plan to the scientific diving officer for review and approval at least 60 days prior to your proposed start date.

To enquire about your eligibility to register in this program, please contact the Diving Safety Officer (DSO) via .  

Registration

The following pre-requisites are required to participate in scientific diving. You must:

  • be affiliated with a lab with current or planned diving projects.
  • be an open-water diver with a minimum of five open water dives and possess a nationally recognized SCUBA certification (e.g. PADI).
  • possess a current, nationally recognized First Aid and CPR certification, OFA level 1 or equivalent (e.g. ).
  • be declared medically fit and possess an occupational diver's certificate of medical fitness issued by a licensed physician trained in . 
  • successfully complete the scientific dive training program.

To remain a current CAUS level 1 diver, your certification must be maintained as follows:

  1. Log a minimum of 12 dives during any 12 month period (at least one dive must be to the depth of prescribed level 1 qualification).
  2. Be current in required qualifications (e.g. dive medical, first aid).
  3. Conduct an annual check out dive with the DSO. 

Active projects

You are recommended to submit your annual project plan to the scientific diving officer for review and approval at least 60 days prior to your proposed start date.

Scientific diving annual project form

Projects that have been approved must fulfill the following requirements:

  • The diver-in-charge is responsible for confirming that all divers have completed their personal logs books daily. Log books must be in compliance with 
  • Daily dive plans, with pre & post-brief details and diver sign offs, must be completed for each day of diving conducted during the project. These must be scanned and provided to the DSO within one month of the project completion.  A template is provided which can be modified as required for the specific project.
  • A daily dive log must be kept of the day's activities. These logs must be scanned and sent to the DSO within one month of the annual dive project completion.
  • A digital dive log of the dive project must be completed and sent to the DSO before November 30. 

Reciprocity

Visiting divers from other CAUS member organizations, or those of the American Association of Underwater Sciences (AAUS), may be eligible to dive at UVic by providing a letter of reciprocity (LOR) from their home institute's DSO. 

  • Provide a letter of reciprocity (LOR) from your home institution to ohs@uvic.ca. UVic's DSO will assess your credentials. Please provide a minimum of 30 days notice to the DSO if you are looking to dive under an LOR. 
  • Divers must provide UVic's DSO with a copy of a dive medical. The expiry dates of dive medicals is considered to be that as mandated by WorkSafeBC (2 years expiry if your age is <40 yrs, 1 year expiry if your age is >40 yrs), regardless of the expiry dates stipulated by the governing body of the diver (e.g. AAUS). 
  • Visiting divers will need to complete the Standards and DCIEM components of the UVic CAUS scientific diving theory course.
  • Visiting divers may need to complete the Dive Accident Management training course. 

Diving safety committee

The 麻豆精品 Diving Safety Committee is a regulatory committee, reporting to the Vice-President Finance and Operations; following the terms of reference.

The committee is responsible for reviewing and considering for approval scientific diving projects in research and teaching.  The committee also recommends procedures, policy and standards for diving operations and carries out functions related to diving safety as required by WorkSafeBC and the Canadian Association for Underwater Science (CAUS).