PADI third chapter Assessment Questions and Answers Graded A+

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PADI third chapter Assessment Questions and Answers Graded A+ One way to avoid disorientation while descending and ascending is to: ✔Ans✔ Follow a reference. By buddy and I are diving from ... a boat and there's a mild current. In most circumstances we would __________ for the first part of the dive: ✔Ans✔ Swim into the current My buddy and I get disoriented while boat diving. There is a milf current, and we surface away from the boat. We should _________. If unable to reach the boat or too tired, we should _________. ✔Ans✔ Swim across the current to reach the trail line, become buoyant and signal the mote to pick us up. My buddy and I remain neutrally buoyant and stay above the bottom enough to avoid contact. We do this because bottom contact: ✔Ans✔ May injure or kill fragile aquatic life, tends to disturb the bottom and reduce viability, increases the risk of accidental cuts, scrapes, or stings. When assessing conditions, if there is anything that causes me significant anxiety or concern, if I can't address it, I should not dive. Ultimately I am responsible for my own safety, so I can make the final decision to dive. T/F ✔Ans✔ True When planning to dive in an environment that is new to me, it is recommended that I get a local orientation from an experienced diver or professional who knows the procedures, hazards, points of interest and other factors unique to the environment. T/F ✔Ans✔ True Risks of diving beyond my training and experience limits include that: ✔Ans✔ In some forms of diving, the hazards are not obvious, it can cause me to have a false sense of security, and anxiety from doing so can distract me from noticing other problems. While planning a shore dive, my buddy says it will be "no problem" diving in high surf that I've never trained in nor have experience with. Looking at the surf, I don't think I am prepared for diving in it. My best response is to: ✔Ans✔ Politely refuse to dive and suggest an alternate location with no significant surf. To prevent and/or handle injuries caused by aquatic life, I should: ✔Ans✔ Watch where I put my feet, hands, and knees, wear an exposure suit, treat all organisms with respect, my buddy and I accidentally find ourselves in a rip current. There are no special, local procedures, so we follow the generally recommended action of: ✔Ans✔ Inflating our BCD's and swimming parallel to shore. Depending on my location, tides can cause significant changes to depth, currents and visibility, or they may have hardly any effect. T/F ✔Ans✔ True When boarding a dive boat, the dive master asks me to fill my name in on the roll. The reason for this is to: ✔Ans✔ Make sure everyone's on board after each dive. The best entry is usually the: ✔Ans✔ Easiest one. I should stay well away from the boat propeller at all times, even when the engine isn't running. T/F ✔Ans✔ True By buddy and I are diving from a boat in mild to moderate current. There is a line from the back of the boat where we'll enter, which leads to the mooring line at the front of the boat. The purpose of the line leading to the mooring line is to: ✔Ans✔ Allow us to swim to it if we surface away from the boat. My buddy and I surface and the boat is not in sight, nor is there a float and we are beyond sight of shore. We should inflate our BCD's, deploy our surface signaling devices and stay together. T/F ✔Ans✔ True [Show More]

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