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Boat protocol

  orientation

  loading

  donning

  entries

  in water-to-boat communications

  surface-to-boat communications

Suiting up order on boat

  suit

  boots

  instruments

  pocket contents

  fins

  arrange straps and hoses

  dry suit hose

  hood

  alternate regulator

  mask in ready position

  left arm

  right arm

  crotch strap and buckle

  long hose under canister and reel

  primary regulator

  stage bottles clipped in correct order

  mask on

  buddy check

Hovering

  in various positions

  with and without stages

Finning

  sculling

  rotating

  frog kick

  anti silting

  pull and glide

Lift bag 

  from deco stop

  from bottom

  failed lift bag

  more than one on a line

  lifting object

  failed BC

Gas sharing

  long hose stationary

  long hose swimming

  deco sharing

  buddy breathing

  S-Drill

Free flow

  second stage

  known first stage

  unknown first stage

  advanced 2 step shutdown with isolator

  non-isolator shutdowns

  buddy assisted shutdowns

  free flow deco (valve) breathing

Bubble check

  pre-dive check

Entries

  boat entries

  shore entries

  using a line

  free drop

  setting the line

  freeing the line

Communications

  numbers

  deco remaining

  gas report

  time report

  up

  swim

  hold

  ok

  line

  entangled

  reel

  lift bag

  turn dive

  cut drill

  drill

  rotate

  out of air

  low on air

  deco cleared

  abort dive

  use alternate table

  switch regulator (gas)

  slower

  hover

  communicating with lights

  narcosis

Deco stop

  no-tox check

  ascent rate

  computer usage

  table usage

  trail stage bottle

  clear regulator

  deploy jon line

Staging

  unclip and store

  recharge regulator

  clip

  clip and go

  lost stage bottle

  valve protocols

BCD

  trim

  failure

  rear dump usage

  inflator free-flow

  oral inflation

Drysuit

  inflator free-flow

  flooded suit

  up-side-down maneuver

Gas switch

  No-Tox

  wrong gas

  convulsion procedure

  air break

Schedule

  compare computers

  computer failure

  lost table

  lost schedules dry run

  lost computer and table

Narcosis

  depth management

  narcosis recognition

  narcosis management

Missing team mate

  search method

  abort protocol

Mask

  remove and replace

  use backup mask

  no-mask swim

  flood and clear

Turn points

  wreck navigation

  SAC rate

  swimming

  deco time

  * All skills are training-level dependent

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