Canada Oil and Gas Diving Regulations — 2
t means the plant and equipment that are used in, or in connection with, a diving operation and includes the plant and equipment that are essential to a diver or pilot; ( matériel de plongée ) diving program means any work or activity related to the exploration or drilling for or the production, conservation, processing or transportation of oil or gas that involves a diving operation; ( programme de plongée ou programme ) diving safety specialist means a person who meets the criteria set out in subsection 26(1); ( spécialiste de la sécurité en plongée ) diving station means the place from which a diving operation is controlled; ( poste de commande de plongée ) diving submersible means a self-propelled submarine that has at least (a) one one-atmosphere compartment from which the diving submersible is piloted and from which a dive can be supervised, and (b) one compression chamber from which a dive can be conducted; ( sous-marin crache-plongeurs ) diving supervisor means a supervisor of a diving operation involving a diver; ( directeur de plongée ) dressed-in means fully equipped to dive and ready to enter the water, with the diver’s personal diving equipment tested and at hand, whether or not helmet, face plate or face mask is in place; ( équipé ) emergency means an exceptional situation resulting from an accident or incident; ( urgence ) environmental conditions means conditions that may affect a diving operation and includes (a) weather and sea conditions, (b) speed of currents and tides, (c) shipping activities, (d) air and water temperatures, (e) icing conditions, and (f) debris on the sea surface or sea bed; ( conditions ambiantes ) hyperbaric first-aid technician means a person who has successfully completed an advanced hyperbaric first-aid course acceptable to the Minister; ( secouriste hyperbare ) incident means a fortuitous event that compromises or is likely to compromise the safety of, or endangers or is likely to endanger the health, well-being or life of, a person involved in a diving operation; ( incident ) installation means any fixed offshore structure used in connection with the exploration or drilling for or the production, conservation, processing or transportation of oil or gas; ( installation ) lifeline means a safety line attached to a diver that is suitable for recovering and lifting the diver and the diver’s personal diving equipment from the water; ( ligne de vie ) life-support system means a system comprising the breathing mixture supply systems, decompression and recompression equipment, environmental control systems and equipment and supplies that may be required to provide safe accommodation for a person in the water, in a compression chamber, in a diving bell, in a diving submersible or in an ADS under all pressures and conditions that a person may be exposed to during a diving operation; ( système de survie ) life-support technician means a person who has successfully completed a life-support technician’s course acceptable to the Minister and who has satisfied the Minister that the person has attained a level of competence in all aspects of all types of diving techniques, including emergency procedures, hyperbaric first-aid and operation of life-support systems; ( technicien des systèmes de survie ) lock-out dive means a dive from a diving bell or a diving submersible; ( plongée à partir d’un sas ) maximum working load means the total weight of a load likely to be handled under normal operating conditions in a diving operation, weighed out of water and includes the weight of the umbilical; ( charge de service maximale ) maximum working pressure means the maximum pressure to which a compression chamber can safely be exposed under normal operating conditions in a diving operation, and, where a compression 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