BSAC sports diver theory TEST QUESTIONS SOLVED
100% CORRECT!!! 2025
Typical indicators of buddy inabilities - ✔✔- Nervous or reluctant
- Excuses or repeated questions
- Stress indicators
- Slow to kit up
How to resolve concerns? - ✔✔- Adapt the plan
- Pick a more suitable dive site
- Avoid peer pressure
Adverse buddy reactions during a dive - ✔✔- Stopping for no reason
- Not responding to signals
- Preoccupied with kit
- Rapid breathing
- Wide staring eyes
How to resolve buddy issues during a dive? - ✔✔- Stop or move to buddy
- OK? Problem?
- Not OK, gentle but firm contact
- Abort dive
Diver out of breathing gas - ✔✔AS Ascent
Incapable/unconscious diver - ✔✔CBL
, Rescue ascents - urgent - ✔✔Ascend directly to surface (May mean ignoring deco stops)
Safer out of the water
DCI can be treated
Actions to take in case of oxygen convulsions
Buddy rescue water life support sequence (once at surface) - ✔✔1. Make buoyant (fully
inflate BCD)
2. Shout for help
3. Open airway
4. Give 1 min RB
5. Tow to shore or RB while waiting for boat
6. De-kit and land/recover
Surface tows - ✔✔Ensure casualty buoyant at surface
Fully inflate BCD, face clear of water
Consider removing weights
Get help
Reassure (if conscious)
Landing a casualty - shore - ✔✔De-kit and land as quickly as possible WITHOUT further RBs
Lift from water
Contact emergency services
Commence Basic Life Support
Use automated external defibrillator
Landing a casualty - boat - ✔✔De-kit and remove from water as quickly as possible WITHOUT
further RBs
100% CORRECT!!! 2025
Typical indicators of buddy inabilities - ✔✔- Nervous or reluctant
- Excuses or repeated questions
- Stress indicators
- Slow to kit up
How to resolve concerns? - ✔✔- Adapt the plan
- Pick a more suitable dive site
- Avoid peer pressure
Adverse buddy reactions during a dive - ✔✔- Stopping for no reason
- Not responding to signals
- Preoccupied with kit
- Rapid breathing
- Wide staring eyes
How to resolve buddy issues during a dive? - ✔✔- Stop or move to buddy
- OK? Problem?
- Not OK, gentle but firm contact
- Abort dive
Diver out of breathing gas - ✔✔AS Ascent
Incapable/unconscious diver - ✔✔CBL
, Rescue ascents - urgent - ✔✔Ascend directly to surface (May mean ignoring deco stops)
Safer out of the water
DCI can be treated
Actions to take in case of oxygen convulsions
Buddy rescue water life support sequence (once at surface) - ✔✔1. Make buoyant (fully
inflate BCD)
2. Shout for help
3. Open airway
4. Give 1 min RB
5. Tow to shore or RB while waiting for boat
6. De-kit and land/recover
Surface tows - ✔✔Ensure casualty buoyant at surface
Fully inflate BCD, face clear of water
Consider removing weights
Get help
Reassure (if conscious)
Landing a casualty - shore - ✔✔De-kit and land as quickly as possible WITHOUT further RBs
Lift from water
Contact emergency services
Commence Basic Life Support
Use automated external defibrillator
Landing a casualty - boat - ✔✔De-kit and remove from water as quickly as possible WITHOUT
further RBs
