Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations (SOR/88-600)
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Regulations are current to 2024-10-30
PART VSupervisors (continued)
Supervisor’s Logbooks
51 (1) A supervisor shall keep a logbook that is permanently bound, has numbered pages and contains the name and signature of the supervisor and a photograph that is a likeness of the supervisor.
(2) A supervisor shall, as soon as possible after supervision of a dive or after a period of supervision of a portion of a dive, enter in the logbook referred to in subsection (1), for each dive or portion of a dive supervised by the supervisor,
(a) the date of the dive;
(b) the name of the diving contractor, if any, who conducted the dive;
(c) the name of the operator or the operator’s representative responsible for the diving operation;
(d) the name or other designation and location of the craft or installation from which, or other dive site at which, the dive was conducted;
(e) the dive identification number referred to in paragraph 50(1)(e);
(f) the name of each diver or pilot supervised;
(g) the maximum depth, bottom time and dive time of the dive;
(h) the decompression table and the schedule in that decompression table that were used in the dive;
(i) details of any medical care or advice given and the type of therapeutic treatment used, if any;
(j) any emergency in connection with the dive; and
(k) any other factor relevant to the safety or health of any person involved in the dive.
(3) A supervisor shall, after completion of an entry in the supervisor’s logbook in accordance with subsection (2), immediately sign the entry and request the operator or the operator’s representative responsible for the dive to countersign the entry as soon as possible.
(4) No person shall make any alteration to an entry in a supervisor’s logbook referred to in subsection (1) unless the alteration is initialled by the supervisor and by the person who countersigned the entry.
(5) A supervisor shall produce, on request, the supervisor’s logbook referred to in subsection (1) for inspection by
(a) a conservation engineer pursuant to paragraph 43(b) of the Act; and
(b) the diving doctor who examines the supervisor for the purposes of these Regulations, at the time of the examination.
(6) A supervisor shall keep in the supervisor’s logbook referred to in subsection (1)
(a) the supervisor’s diving supervisor’s certificate or ADS supervisor’s certificate;
(b) the supervisor’s written appointment as a supervisor pursuant to subsection 9(3);
(c) any certificates or other evidence of qualification in addition to those referred to in paragraph (a); and
(d) any certificates or other evidence of medical examination received from a diving doctor.
(7) A supervisor shall retain the supervisor’s logbook referred to in subsection (1) for a period of not less than two years after the day of the last entry made in it.
Keeping of Records
52 (1) Where a person involved in a diving operation is in a compression chamber, the supervisor of the diving operation shall keep a record or ensure that a record is kept, at regular intervals of not more than 30 minutes, of the time and the depth gauge readings and of the main components of the atmosphere in the compression chamber, including
(a) the oxygen and carbon dioxide; and
(b) the temperature and humidity.
(2) The supervisor of a diving operation shall keep a record of
(a) the results of any analyses of any breathing mixture used,
(b) any scheduled and unscheduled maintenance performed on any component of the diving plant and equipment used, and
(c) the results of any readings taken pursuant to subsection (1),
and shall keep a copy of any certifications and inspections carried out on the diving plant and equipment used.
(3) On completion of a diving operation, the supervisor of the diving operation shall deliver the records and copies kept pursuant to subsection (2) to the diving contractor who conducted the diving operation.
(4) The supervisor of a diving operation shall make a tape recording of all communications between the divers or the pilots involved in a dive that is part of the diving operation and the supervisor during the pre-dive system check and during the dive and shall retain the tape recording for a minimum of 48 hours after the completion of the diving operation.
PART VIDivers
Category I Dives
53 No person shall make a category I dive in a diving operation unless the person
(a) is 18 years of age or older;
(b) has been certified to be medically fit to dive by a diving doctor who has
(i) inspected the person’s diver’s logbook referred to in section 63,
(ii) examined the person not more than 12 months prior to the period during which the diving operation is to be conducted, and
(iii) recorded the results of the examination including, in the case of a person 35 years of age or older, the results of a stress ECG performance test on a treadmill or a bicycle, on a medical examination record in the form set out in Schedule VII or in another form acceptable to the Minister, and on a diver’s medical certificate in the person’s diver’s logbook;
(c) has delivered a copy of the diver’s medical certificate referred to in paragraph (b) to the diving contractor who conducts the diving operation;
(d) holds
(i) a valid category I diving certificate issued pursuant to section 54 or 71,
(ii) during the first year in which the person makes category I dives in a diving operation, a valid document that is
(A) issued by a country other than Canada on the basis of training and experience that are equivalent to the training and experience referred to in paragraph 54(1)(a), and
(B) acceptable to the Minister,
(iii) a valid category II diving certificate issued pursuant to section 56 or 71 or a valid document referred to in paragraph 55(1)(b), or
(iv) a valid category III diving certificate issued pursuant to section 58 or 71 or a valid document referred to in paragraph 57(1)(b); and
(e) has satisfied the supervisor of the diving operation that
(i) the person is capable of using, and has sufficient experience in the use of, the type of diving plant and equipment and breathing mixture to be used in the diving operation and is familiar with the relevant provisions of the procedures manual referred to in paragraph 4(4)(a) and the contingency plan referred to in paragraph 4(4)(i) to be followed in the diving operation, and
(ii) the person’s involvement in the diving operation is in no way contrary to any restriction
(A) inserted in that person’s diving certificate or attached to that person’s document referred to in paragraph (d) pursuant to section 59, or
(B) inserted in that person’s diver’s medical certificate pursuant to section 60.
Category I Diving Certificates
54 (1) The Minister may, on application, issue a category I diving certificate that is valid for one year to a person who has attained a standard of competence in category I diving that is acceptable to the Minister and who
(a) holds a first-aid certificate acceptable to the Minister and has
(i) successfully completed, at a school, institution or company acceptable to the Minister, training in the theoretical and practical aspects of diving appropriate to category I diving, including
(A) the use of air as a breathing mixture,
(B) surface-oriented diving techniques and operational procedures,
(C) diving techniques and operational procedures for use with SCUBA,
(D) the use and operation of any diving plant and equipment, including hand-held tools,
(E) the use of communications systems,
(F) the use of decompression tables,
(G) emergency procedures, including hyperbaric first-aid techniques and the operation of surface compression chambers, and
(H) a thorough study of these Regulations, and
(ii) made at least 50 dives in various environmental conditions and locations and for various purposes with a bottom time totalling at least 50 hours, including
(A) at least 40 dives to depths of up to 20 m with a bottom time totalling at least 43 hours, of which at least 10 were dives to depths of between 15 m and 20 m with a bottom time totalling at least seven hours, and
(B) at least 10 dives to depths of between 20 m and 50 m with a bottom time totalling at least seven hours, of which at least three hours were at depths of between 40 m and 50 m and at least one hour was at a depth of at least 50 m;
(b) held a category I diving certificate that was issued pursuant to this subsection but is no longer valid because it was not renewed pursuant to subsection (2) and who made at least 28 dives with a bottom time totalling at least 24 hours during the 12 months preceding the application;
(c) until December 31, 1990, has satisfied the Minister that the person’s training and experience are equivalent to the training and experience described in paragraph (a); or
(d) holds a valid document referred to in paragraph 53(d).
(2) The Minister may, on application by the holder of a category I diving certificate issued pursuant to subsection (1), renew the certificate for a period of one year where the holder of the certificate has made at least 24 category I dives with a bottom time totalling at least 20 hours during the 12 months preceding the application.
Category II Dives
55 (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall make a category II dive in a diving operation unless the person
(a) meets the criteria set out in paragraphs 53(a) to (c) and (e); and
(b) holds
(i) a valid category II diving certificate issued pursuant to section 56 or 71,
(ii) during the first year in which the person makes a category II dive in a diving operation, a valid document that is
(A) issued by a country other than Canada on the basis of training and experience that are equivalent to the training and experience referred to in paragraph 56(1)(a), and
(B) acceptable to the Minister, or
(iii) a valid category III diving certificate issued pursuant to section 58 or 71 or a valid document referred to in paragraph 57(1)(b).
(2) A diver who holds a category I diving certificate may make a category II dive for training purposes in a diving operation where
(a) the diver is employed in a diving program on a full-time basis to make category I dives;
(b) the dive is authorized as a training dive by the operator or the operator’s representative responsible for the diving operation and the person in charge of the craft or installation from which the dive will be conducted; and
(c) the diver makes the dive under the close supervision of a diver who holds a category II or category III diving certificate.
Category II Diving Certificates
56 (1) The Minister may, on application, issue a category II diving certificate that is valid for one year to a person who has attained a standard of competence in category II diving that is acceptable to the Minister and who
(a) has
(i) successfully completed, at a school, institution or company acceptable to the Minister, training in the theoretical and practical aspects of diving appropriate to category II diving, including
(A) the use of mixed gas as a breathing mixture,
(B) mixed gas diving techniques and operational procedures,
(C) the use and operation of any diving plant and equipment,
(D) any type of underwater work generally done by a diver,
(E) the use of communications systems,
(F) emergency procedures, including hyperbaric first-aid techniques and the operation of compression chambers, and
(G) a thorough study of these Regulations, and
(ii) been employed to make category I dives for at least the 12 months preceding the application and has made at least 60 dives in a diving bell or diving submersible with a bottom time totalling at least 20 hours, including at least 30 lock-out dives of which four were to a depth of more than 50 m, two were to a depth of more than 80 m and one was to a depth of 100 m or more, with a bottom time totalling at least 30 minutes per lock-out dive;
(b) held a category II diving certificate that was issued pursuant to this subsection but is no longer valid because it was not renewed pursuant to subsection (2) and who made at least 28 dives with a bottom time totalling at least 24 hours of which at least 10 dives were category II dives with a bottom time totalling at least 10 hours during the 12 months preceding the application;
(c) until December 31, 1990, has satisfied the Minister that the person’s training and experience are equivalent to the training and experience described in paragraph (a); or
(d) holds a valid document referred to in paragraph 55(1)(b).
(2) The Minister may, on application by the holder of a category II diving certificate issued pursuant to subsection (1), renew the certificate for a period of one year where the holder of the certificate has made at least 24 dives with a bottom time totalling at least 20 hours, including at least eight category II dives with a bottom time totalling at least eight hours during the 12 months preceding the application.
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