PUBLIC SAFETY DIVER
NAUI Public Safety Diver
Public Safety Divers are a special breed of divers! Many of them begin as recreational divers, but because of their desire to serve their local communities many join local volunteer and paid Public Safety Diver teams to provide emergency, rescue and investigative services to the public.
The NAUI Public Safety Diver program introduces the fundamental skills needed by Public Safety Divers during underwater search, rescue and recovery operations. The NAUI Public Safety Diver course in public safety diving for current or future members of PSD teams.
This first level Emergency Response Diving Course is a continuing education certification course designed to give the certified open water diver who desire knowledge and training in public safety diving the fundamental skills needed to safely function as part of an OSHA and NFPA compliant public safety dive team in both the diver and tender roles.
The course emphasizes safety; knowledge; skills; abilities; and risk, incident, and resource management with practical applications. The course is also designed specifically to provide public safety divers with training, knowledge, and skills necessary to assist them during underwater search, rescue, and recovery activities.
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Who this course is for:
- A certified open water diver who is currently a public safety professional
- A certified open water diver who would like to operate and support persons within a dive team organization
Course Prerequisites:
- Minimum age 18
- NAUI Open Water Diver Certification or Equivalent
- Current CPR, First Aid and Oxygen Administration Certification
What you can expect to learn:
- Equipment preparation and selection, problem solving, tender skills, responding to a call, search patterns, scene evaluation, environmental risks, evidence handling
- Dive skills including line signals, diver communications, executing multiple search patterns, victim recovery, emergency procedures, and decontamination procedures
- How to continue and transition your ERD I training into ERD Ops Components courses
What’s in it for you and your team?
- Structured training that solidifies diver and tender abilities in the participation of planning and executing dive team operations
Emergency Response Diver I level minimum requirements:
- Diver evaluations
- Demonstrate mastery of scuba skills, line signals, diver touch communications, and search patterns
- 800 metre mask, snorkel and fins swim, 500 metre distance swim no aids, 100 metre buddy tow in scuba equipment
- Tender swimming evaluations
- 200 metre swim without aids, 100 metre buddy tow in personal flotation device (PFD), 10 minute survival float
- Demonstrate effective line communications with divers, proper tending techniques
