ISO 24803:2017 レクリエーションダイビングサービス—レクリエーションダイビングプロバイダーの要件 | ページ 2

Foreword

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 228, Tourism and related services.

This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 24803:2007), which has been technically revised.

Introduction

Standardization is important for recreational activities, such as diving, for which training and experience are essential for the participants to be able to carry out the activity safely. Although recreational diving is potentially hazardous, the risks to the participants and to the natural and cultural resources of the dive sites can easily be reduced to acceptable levels by the adoption of appropriate precautions. Additionally, impacts to the marine environment, particularly fragile marine ecosystems such as coral reefs, can be reduced through proper education and training of scuba instructors, dive leaders and divers.

A service provider can offer diver training and education, guided dives and rental of diving equipment, snorkelling excursions, and courses leading to one or more of the diver or instructor qualifications specified in the relevant ISO standards. This document specifies requirements for each of these services separately. Thus, although a client might be provided with two services at the same time (for example, diver training and rental of diving equipment), the client is considered to be in receipt of two distinct services.

Examples of service providers are a land-based dive centre, a boat-based operation, a dive club, an individual instructor, a watersport centre or an operator offering snorkelling excursions.

Service providers can often supply compressed breathing gases. This service is not covered in this document as it is usually covered by national legislation and/or other standards.

This document for service providers has a key role in the series of standards for recreational diving services as it specifies requirements that are common to the provision of training and qualification of divers and instructors, as specified in the other standards in the series.

1 Scope

This document specifies requirements for service providers in the field of recreational scuba diving and snorkelling excursions.

It specifies the following areas of service provision:

• introductory diving activities;
• snorkelling excursions;
• provision of training and education;
• organized and guided diving for qualified divers;
• rental of diving and snorkelling equipment.

Service providers can offer one or more of these services. This document specifies the nature and quality of the services to the client.

This document does not apply to freediving (also called “apnea diving”).

2 Normative references

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

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