I.-Practitioners have a rescue plan and the following rescue equipment available at the launch or immersion site:
-A means of communication to alert the emergency services. A VHF is necessary when the dive takes place at sea from a dive support boat;
-Fresh drinking water;
a self-filling bag with a one-way valve, an oxygen reserve bag and three masks (large, medium and small);
a high-concentration mask
-a set of normobaric medical oxygen therapy with sufficient capacity to allow, in the event of an accident, treatment adapted to the situation until the arrival of medical assistance, with pressure reducer, litre flow rate and hose for connection to the self-filling bag with one-way valve or to the high concentration mask;
-An isothermal blanket;
-evacuation sheets based on the standard model in appendix III-19.
The emergency plan is a written document, adapted to the location and the dive, which is regularly updated and brought to the attention of the dive director, the persons supervising the groups and the autonomous divers. In particular, it specifies how to be alerted in the event of an accident, the contact details of the emergency services and the emergency procedures to be applied to the victim on the surface.
II – They also have the following assistance equipment:
-an emergency air cylinder equipped with its regulator and, in the event of diving using a breathing mixture other than air, one or more emergency cylinders equipped with regulators, the contents of which, as provided for in the emergency plan, are appropriate to the dive being organised;
-a means of recalling an immersed diver from the surface, when the dive takes place in a natural environment, from a boat;
-a submersible scoring table;
-in the open water, beyond a depth of 6 metres, a set of decompression tables.
III -The emergency equipment is regularly checked and properly maintained.