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 OPERATING OF SHORE-BASED HYPERBARIC FACILITIES
CHAPTER 2
2.1
GUIDANCE
DOCUMENTS
2.1.1
U.S. Navy Diving Manual, Volumes 1 & 2, NAVSEA
Publications 0994-LP-001-9010 and 9020.
This manual contains
limited guidance concerning maintenance and general guidance on
operational procedures for diving and hyperbaric chamber systems.
Information in the U.S. Navy Diving Manual which is pertinent to
shore-based hyperbaric facilities includes: hyperbaric physics,
hyperbaric physiology, operations planning, diver-carried equipment
maintenance,
medical
emergency
procedures
a n d equipment,
recompression chamber treatment tables, recompression chamber
operation,
and
general
recompression
chamber
maintenance
guidelines.
2.1.2
U.S. Navy Diving and Manned Hyperbaric Systems
Safety Certification Manual, NAVSEA TM SS521-AA-MAN-010.
This
instruction is a set of guidelines for the designer and/or builder
of a U.S. Navy Diving and Manned Hyperbaric System, which includes
any noncombatant submersible, in or on-bottom habitat, diving
system, diving equipment, or hyperbaric facility, that is intended
for use by Navy or government personnel. Areas addressed include:
system certification process; design, construction, fabrication and
assembly guidelines; testing, quality assurance, operability and
maintainability guidelines; system certification surveys; and
tenure of certification. Additional information is provided in the
appendices to SS521-AA-MAN-010 on: categorization of scope of
certification materials and components; design parameters for
diving systems; design parameters for implodable and explodable
items: general guidelines for atmospheric evaluation of manned
diving systems; general guidelines for cleaning breathing gas
systems: general guidelines for diving system handling systems; and
general guidelines for re-entry control.
2.1.3
Certification
The Certification
Certificate.
Certificate is the document which each facility must obtain from
the NAVFAC System Certification Authority (SCA) prior to conducting
diving or manned hyperbaric
with a particular
operations
system/facility.
The certification certificate is issued by the
NAVFAC SCA after:
the system technical documentation has been
reviewed to ensure that materials have been procured, fabricated,
installed, cleaned and tested properly: the SCA has conducted an
onsite survey to verify design compliance; and a successful
operational demonstration "dive" of the system to its certifiable
limits is witnessed by the SCA or an authorized representative of
the SCA.
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