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KMACS 5 MANUAL
© 2003 KMDSI Document # 041112001
6) Air can be heard escaping into
console interior.
7) Umbilical hose pressure and
supply pressure drops rapidly.
8) With high pressure air on and
regulator loaded, no umbilical
pressure.
Leakage in DCS plumbing.
Diver’s Umbilical cut or severed.
Regulator malfunction.
Return KMACS 5 to factory
for service.
Replace diver’s hose.
Return DCS- 2A to factory for
service
Symptoms
Probable Cause
Remedy
5.0 APPENDIX
5.1 EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
The following are general recommended emergency procedures. However, it is up to the individual
diver and dive supervisor to make judgements under specific conditions on how to best cope with
particular situations.
5.2 DIVER LINE PULL SIGNALS
Problem
1) Loss of communications
2) Loss of primary air supply.
3) Diver’s umbilical severed.
4) Pneumo will not operate.
Action
a) Abort dive if operations are not absolutly necessary.
b) Use line pull signals as per this appendix section.
Switch to emergency backup system and abort dive.
a) Diver switches to bailout bottle and aborts dive.
b) Standby diver enters water and supplies first diver with air
from pneumo.
a) Dive hose should be marked with colored tape every 10 feet.
Take depth readings from this. (will only be approximate)
b) Diver’s personal depth gauge can provide back up.
# of Pulls
1
2
From Tender to Diver
“Are you all right?”
When diver is descending, one
pull means “Stop!”
“Going down”
During ascent, this means,
“You have come up too far, go
back down until we stop you.”
From Diver to Tender
“I am all right”, or ...
“I am on the bottom”
“Lower me down”, or
“Give me slack”