DIVER STRESS AND RESCUE

Final Exam | A | English-Metric

Instructions: Select the best answer from the choices below.
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1. Before attempting to lift an
unconscious diver into a boat or
onto shore, you should:
A. Perform CPR in the water
B. Remove and ditch the victim’s
equipment
C. Take a rest
D. Supply oxygen to the victim
2. Decisions about the best method
of transportation should be based
on the distance to the facility and:
A. The weather forecast
B. The water temperature
C. The type of oxygen regulator
used for first aid
D. The severity of the injury
3. If the victim is not breathing but
has a pulse, your decision on your
level of care will be based on:
A. The gender of the victim
B. The age of the victim
C. Your distance from the next
group of divers
D. Your distance from the shore or
boat
4. If you are separated from you dive
buddy, you should:
A. Surface immediately
B. Surface after making two 360
degree visual sweeps (1 Minute)
C. Continue your dive
5. Which level of stress is considered
to be healthy?
A. A consistent high level of Stress.
B. A consistent low level of Stress,
because it keeps us alert and
warns us of danger.
C. A consistent medium level of
Stress outside the water.
D. No Level of Stress.
6. When you begin to tire, lack the
ability to make decisions, or lend
support, it is time to:
A. Get a good rest
B. Stop the rescue and discontinue
C. Inflate your BC
D. Get Help
7. Physical causes of stress include:
A. Lack of fitness, fatigue,
constriction of movement and
hypothermia
B. Headache, fitness and a well
maintained Total Diving System
C. Poor judgment, buddy system
failure and warm water
D. Equipment loss, equipment
failure and hyperthermia
8. In a buddy assist situation, which
person do you have to take care
first:
A. The victim
B. Yourself
10. Factors which can impair
movement and complicate the
rescue process include:
A. Entanglement and Entrapment
B. Freediving
C. Diving without wetsuit
D. Tight mask strap
11. For mild and serious symptoms of
DCS and Overexpansion injuries
the appropriate first aid is:
A. Administer 100% oxygen
B. All Answer are correct
C. Activate the emergency medical
system
D. Watch vital signs
12. One of the best arguments in favor
of always using the buddy system
is:
A. In a stress situation there
will almost always be at least
two Dive Professionals which
maintain control and are able to
lend aid.
B. In a stress situation there will
almost always be at least one
diver who maintains control and
is able to lend aid
C. You will always have someone
which can help you setting up
your Total Diving System.
D. You always can share your diving
experiences after the dive.

D. Start searching until your C. The Boat Captain

breathing gas gets low, then D. The witnesses
surface
9. Even when no-decompression
limits are strictly adhered to, the
following factors can cause some
divers to be more susceptible to
decompression sickness:
A. Fatigue
B. Body weight
C. All answers are correct
D. Dehydration

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13. Each diver will have slight
variances in their dive plan that
will affect their diving profile,
especially during an entire week of
diving. This is why:
A. Each diver must dive with their
own computer
B. You have to stay very close
together if you use one computer
with you buddy
C. Each diver should drink more or
less water
D. Each diver should use Nitrox 40
at the end of the week
14. Signs and symptoms of lung
overexpansion injuries include:
A. Headaches with nosebleed
B. Breathing difficulties and chest
pain
C. Dull pain in the joints
D. Euphoria
15. The following are causes of
psychological stress:
A. Lack of fitness, fatigue,
constriction of movement and
hypothermia
B. Equipment loss, equipment
failure and hyperthermia
C. Headache, fitness and a well
maintained Total Diving System
D. Lack of mental preparedness,
mental control, and mental
coping
16. Each and every safe dive starts
with?
A. Signing the Total Dive Log
B. Pre-dive planning
C. Entering the water with an giant
stride.
D. Entering the water with a back-
roll
17. Common skills for self-aid are:
A. Buoyancy control and
emergency ascents
B. Using alternate fin kicks and
relieving leg cramps
C. All answers are correct
D. Switching to alternate air sources
and regulator retrieval
18. The two most common dive 23. When you detect stress in your
maladies are: buddy, you need to?:
A. Nitrogen Narcosis and Oxygen A. Ignore it, all certified divers can
Toxicity solve any stress situation by
B. Hyperhermia and CO toxicity themselves
C. Shark bites and compression B. Keep your distance to not
sickness endanger youself if he/she starts
panicking
D. Overexpansion injury and
decompression sickness C. Immediately assess the source
of that stress and deal with it
appropriately
19. Preparation in which area may be
the life-saving difference in a panic D. Ascent and call for help
or rescue situation?
24. What is stress?
A. CPR
B. Accident management A. Always the result of pressure at
depth and demands to the Total
C. Oxygen Provider Diving System
D. Nitrox diving B. The result of pressures or
demands which outweigh a
20. The main reason people run out of person’s ability or capacity to
breathing gas is: respond to them
A. Failure to maintain neutral C. Stress is always the result of
buoyancy. going diving
B. Failure to maintain buddy D. Nothing we should worry about
system.
C. Failure to make visual inspection 25. Hypothermia is generally defined
every year. as:
D. Failure to monitor the pressure A. The condition of having one’s
gauge or air integrated dive body temperature rising above
computer. normal.
B. The condition of having one’s
21. All divers should get used to the body temperature normal
idea that it’s okay to make a no-go C. The condition of too much
diving decision without fear of
Oxygen at depth
embarrassment, at which point?
D. The condition of having one’s
A. Before setting up the Total Diving body temperature fall below
System normal
B. Before entering the water
C. At any time
D. After entering the water but
before descent
22. Your personal preparedness to stay
a step ahead of stress includes:
A. Wearing a isolation system, dive
without a buddy and not deeper
than allowed
B. Being healthy, having the proper
skills, and using good quality and
well-maintained equipment
C. Being healthy, having expensive
equipment and using Nitrox 40
only
D. Being comfortable, having the
number of dives needed and
using rental equipment
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