---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 197.314"
title: "46"
number: "197.314"
heading: "First aid and treatment equipment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/197.314"
---

# §197.314. First aid and treatment equipment.

- (a) Each dive location must have—
  - (1) **A medical kit approved by a physician that consists of—**
    - (i) Basic first aid supplies; and
    - (ii) Any additional supplies necessary to treat minor trauma and illnesses resulting from hyperbaric exposure;
  - (2) A copy of an American Red Cross Standard First Aid handbook;
  - (3) A bag-type manual resuscitator with transparent mask and tubing; and
  - (4) **A capability to remove an injured diver from the water.**
- (b) Each diving installation must have a two-way communications system to obtain emergency assistance except when the vessel or facility ship-to-shore, two-way communications system is readily available.
- (c) Each dive location supporting mixed-gas dives, dives deeper than 130 fsw, or dives outside the no-decompression limits must meet the requirements of [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section and have—
  - (1) A decompression chamber;
  - (2) Decompression and treatment tables;
  - (3) A supply of breathing gases sufficient to treat for decompression sickness;
  - (4) **The medical kit required by paragraph (a)(1) of this section that is—**
    - (i) Capable of being carried into the decompression chamber; and
    - (ii) Suitable for use under hyperbaric conditions; and
  - (5) **A capability to assist an injured diver into the decompression chamber.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1509; 43 U.S.C. 1333; 46 U.S.C. 3306, 3703, 6101; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1.

### Source

Source: CGD 76-009, 43 FR 53683, Nov. 16, 1978, unless otherwise noted.