PADI Divemaster Specialized Skills and Activities 66 Questions With Answers
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Padi divemaster
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Padi Divemaster
When using your alternate air source, or accessory inflator, to add air to a lift bag, you should: - ️️Add air slowly and fill the lift bag with enough air so that it's close to neutral
Which of the following patterns would generally be the preferred pattern for mapping? - ️️U-pattern
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PADI Divemaster Specialized Skills and
Activities 66 Questions
When using your alternate air source, or accessory inflator, to add air to
a lift bag, you should: - ✔ ✔ Add air slowly and fill the lift bag with
enough air so that it's close to neutral
Which of the following patterns would generally be the preferred pattern
for mapping? - ✔ ✔ U-pattern
You and your buddy are planning to map a dive site that is 100m/330ft
by 100m/330ft. You need a useable map that has reasonable accuracy,
but the map will be used for dive briefings, not archaeology or anything
scientific. What measurement method would be appropriate? - ✔ ✔
Kick cycles
You have to anchor a float that will be used by OWD students on their
first dive. You find a very small sand patch right next to a beautiful coral
stand. Which statement most likely represents what you would do? - ✔
✔ You would look for a better place to anchor the float.
You're ascending with a lift bag and it starts to runaway from you. You
should _______ - ✔ ✔ Let it go
______ is usually the biggest concern unique to night diving - ✔ ✔
Light failure
A team of recreational divers wants you to supervise a dive to 24m/80ft
to map a wreck's wheelhouse, photograph the telegraph, locate a moray
eel known to live there, and photograph the eel. Which of the following
,would probably be the most appropriate response? - ✔ ✔ Agree, but
tell the divers they need to pick one or at most two, of those objectives
As a divemaster, what signaling and safety devices should you carry and
know how to use? Study Objective) - ✔ ✔ Two surface signaling
devices: one audible and one visual
Whistle or air horn
Signal mirror, surface marker buoy, inflatable signal tube, emergency
strobe
Before departure when supervising a boat dive, you usually want to: - ✔
✔ Confirm everyone's aboard and listed on the roster
Have everyone complete documents (liability releases, etc.)
Make sure equipment is properly stowed
Let divers know how long it will take to get to the dive site
Characteristics of a circular or semicircular search pattern: - ✔ ✔
Difficult to apply over an obstructed bottom
Requires a line and reel
, Characteristics of a jackstay search pattern: - ✔ ✔ Best choice for
finding a small object in a large area
Characteristics of a U pattern search: - ✔ ✔ Good for searching a
relatively large area for a medium to large object
Characteristics of an expanding square search pattern: - ✔ ✔ Well
suited to looking for something lost in the immediate area
Requires no special equipment
Considerations when setting a dive float: - ✔ ✔ Finding insensitive
bottom for anchoring
Accounting for current, waves, and tide
Considering where divers descending the line will "land"
Retrieving the float at the end of the dive day
Deep dive support equipment that may be beneficial includes: - ✔ ✔
Spare weights
Reference line
Spare cylinder and regulator at 5 meters/15 feet
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