Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 2
on chamber is interconnected with one or more other compression chambers, means, in respect of each of those interconnected chambers, the maximum pressure to which the interconnected chamber with the lowest maximum working pressure can safely be exposed under normal operating conditions; ( pression de service maximale ) medical lock means a lock through which objects may be passed into or out of a compression chamber while a person inside the compression chamber remains under pressure; ( sas à médicaments ) Minister means, (a) in relation to any area in respect of which the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development has administrative responsibility for the natural resources therein, the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and (b) in relation to any area in respect of which the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources has administrative responsibility for the natural resources therein, the Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources; ( ministre ) operator means a person who has been authorized, pursuant to paragraph 3.2(1)(b) of the Act, to carry on a work or activity referred to in section 3.1 of the Act that is a diving program or that includes a diving program; ( exploitant ) personal diving equipment means the diving equipment carried by a diver on the diver’s person during a dive and includes a diving suit, breathing apparatus, bale-out gas bottle and communications equipment; ( équipement personnel de plongée ) pilot means a person who controls the movement of an ADS from within the ADS and who performs from within the ADS any other tasks necessary for the operation of the ADS; ( pilote ) pressure vessel means a closed container capable of withstanding internal or external pressures, or both, greater than one atmosphere; ( appareil sous pression ) procedures manual means the procedures manual referred to in paragraph 4(4)(a); ( manuel des méthodes ) recognized body means an organization, a classification society, a certifying agency, a group of persons or an individual that is acceptable to the Minister as having the expertise and experience to set standards for, or to inspect and certify, diving plant and equipment or parts thereof; ( autorité reconnue ) saturation dive means a dive in which saturation diving techniques are used; ( plongée à saturation ) saturation diving technique means a diving procedure that essentially equilibrates the total pressure of inert gases in the body of a diver with the ambient pressure and allows extended periods of bottom time without additional decompression time required; ( technique de la plongée à saturation ) SCUBA means a self-contained open-circuit underwater breathing apparatus; ( appareil de plongée autonome ) skip means a stage, cage, basket or wet bell in which a diver may be lowered to or raised from an underwater work site; ( skip ) specialized diving doctor means a diving doctor who has completed an advanced diving medical course acceptable to the Minister and who has been accepted in writing by the Minister to provide medical assistance under pressures greater than atmospheric pressure; ( médecin de plongée spécialisé ) stand-by diver means a diver who is dressed-in and trained to operate at the same depths and in the same circumstances as the diver for whom the stand-by diver is standing by, who is at the same dive site as the other diver and who is available without delay to assist that other diver; ( plongeur de secours ) supervisor means a person appointed in writing by a diving contractor, pursuant to subsection 9(3), as a diving supervisor or an ADS supervisor to supervise a diving operation; ( directeur ) surface compression chamber means a compression chamber that is not intended to be submerged; ( caisson de compression de surface ) surface-oriented diving technique means a diving procedure in which the use of a diving bell or diving submersible is not required; ( technique de la plongée avec soutien en surface ) total dive time means the peri