1) No person shall train another person to dive unless he or she has been approved as a diving school in terms of subregulation (2).
2) Any person who has at his or her disposal such staff, plant, equipment and other ancillary facilities as to enable him or her to offer the curriculum of instruction and training for learner divers framed by the chief inspector, may apply in writing to the chief inspector for approval as a diving school to train learner divers and the chief inspector may approve such application subject to such conditions as he or she may impose.
3) A learner diver shall –
a) undergo underwater diving training for the periods prescribed in subregulation (5) and in accordance with the curriculum of training framed by the chief inspector;
b) be under the personal supemision of a diving supervisor and whilst diving be accompanied by a person registered as a diver in terms of regulation 14 of these Regulations: Provided that if the diving supervisor is satisfied that the learner diver is sufficiently experienced, the learner diver may be permitted to undertake dives, unaccompanied, to a diving depth of not more than ten metres, or deeper than ten metres if attached to a life-line.
4) A diving supervisor shall ensure that every learner diver, within twenty four hours of completion of a dive performed by him or her, enters full particulars of such dive in his or her diver's logbook and signs the entry, where after the diving supervisor must countersign the entry.
5) A learner diver shall undergo undewater diving training of not less than fifteen hours’ bottom time, to depths not exceeding thirty metres, so as to qualify for registration as a class IV scuba air diver; five hours’ bottom time, using nitrox gas, additional training to a class IV scuba air diver, to depths not exceeding thirty metres, so as to qualify for registration as a class IV scuba nitrox diver; twenty hours’ bottom time, to depths not exceeding thirty metres, so as to qualify for registration as a class 111 surface-supplied air diver; seven hours’ bottom time additional training, using nitrox gas, to a class 111 surface-supplied air diver, to depths not exceeding thirty metres, so as to qualify for registration as a class 111 surface-supplied nitrox diver; thirty five hours’ bottom time, to depths not exceeding f i i metres, so as to qualify for registration as a class II surface-supplied air diver; and ten hours’ bottom time additional training to a class ll surface-supplied air diver, to depths greater than thirty metres but not exceeding seventy metres, with the use of an open bell and diving stage, so as to uualify for registration as a class II surface-supplied mixed gas diver.
6) No person shall be trained as a class I saturation diver unless he or she has since his or her registration as a class II surface-supplied air diver spent at least fifty hours of bottom time in diving operations, at least fifteen hours of which were spent at depths greater than thirty metres.
7) To qualify for registration as a class I saturation diver, a diver shall undergo underwater diving training of not less than fifty hours’ bottom time at depths at least one hundred metres below the surface.
8) NO person shall be registered as a class I saturation, class II surface-supplied mixed gas, class II surface-supplied air, class 111 surface-supplied air, class IV scuba nitro)(or class IV scuba air diver, unless he or she has attained a satisfactory standard of competence in respect of the additional matters set out in Annexure C to these Regulations.