We now offer Emergency Response Diving 1 (ERD 1) and Public Safety Diving Courses!

Emergency Response Diving 1
Course Description
This program is designed to teach basic black water search and recovery operations for divers working with public safety dive teams. The program content is compliant with all OSHA 1910, NFPA 1670 and NFPA 1006 regulations pertaining to diving operations. Diver training will include: basic search patterns, hazard assessment, risk benefit analysis, equipment selection and deployment for emergency response diving. Additionally, a general orientation to the following topics will be included: OSHA standards and the extreme limitations of the Rescue exemption policy for PSD, scene control, dealing with bystanders and the media. The dive operations are strongly oriented toward tethered diving operations with some minimal discussion of free swimming patterns and their applications/limitations. A very strong emphasis is placed on rescue operations for team mem-bers who experience difficulties during a dive deployment and performing other safety diver activities. Be prepared to swim!


PADI Public Safety Diving
Course Description:
Public safety diving can be an exciting and honorable ser-vice provided to our communities by divers who call themselves “Public Safety Divers”. These specially trained divers provide underwater services ranging from rescue diving to recovery and underwater criminal investigations. Although public safety diving can be a fun and exciting adventure, if not conducted by properly trained and equipped individuals, it can be dangerous and deadly. The philosophy of this course is focused on laying down a foundation in public safety diving that will allow the individual to participate in basic public safety rescue diving. The goal is to introduce and familiarize the student with the use of special procedures, equipment, scene handling, communication procedures, basic public safety diving search and rescue techniques and documentation requirements.