Emergency Procedures: Separated Mouthpiece

The separation of this mouthpiece can be a scary and dangerous experience but is prevented and managed easily.

SDI/TDI/ERDI Welcomes Mark to HQ

Over the last 10 years SDI/TDI/ERDI has seen tremendous growth throughout the world. Due to our growth outside of the United States, we recently decided to expand the staff working with Paul, by adding Jordan Greene, an experienced member of our staff, and Mark Powell, a long time IT for SDI/TDI/ERDI from the UK.

Expanding Representation to the Caribbean.

We’re welcoming two new members to the International Training family to represent SDI-TDI-ERDI in the Caribbean. These two familiar faces will be managing the current accounts while sharing the benefits of doing business with our organization with dealers that are looking for an alternative, better costs, better customer service as well as an organization that works for them.

Having TROUBLE with your REFERRALS?

Are your SDI OW students requesting a referral to someplace “special” to complete their training? As a professional, you want to make sure your customers get the same kind of outstanding treatment that you give them.

Harry Averill

About Harry

Few dive professionals have a background as diverse and extensive as Harry’s. Among his accomplishments, Harry has:

  • Operated dive retail and resort operations in the eastern Caribbean, Florida, the Midwest, California and Hawaii.
  • Worked at the international headquarters of NAUI, PADI and SDI/TDI/ERDI
  • Created diver training materials for NAUI, PADI, SSI, NOAA, NSS-CDS, NASE, NOAA and, of course, SDI, TDI and ERDI.
  • Served on the Boards of Directors of both NSS-CDS and NACD.
  • Trained over 1,000 dive instructors and an even greater number of divers.
  • Captained or crewed diver charters for over 10,000 divers.
  • Logged over 8,000 dives — more than half of them in underwater caverns and caves.

For the past several years, Harry has worked primarily in video production, putting to work skills developed under the tutelage of master videographer Wes Skiles. He currently serves as a consultant to International Training, holding several SDI/TDI Instructor ratings including Full Cave Instructor Evaluator. He most recently co-authored the SDI/TDI Sidemount Diver manual with Pete Nawrocky.

You can find Harry on the web at www.CaveDiverHarry.com or at Facebook.com/cavediverh/.

Explore Articles by Harry

Service Dogs on Public Safety Scenes

One subject we rarely discuss is how many factors must come together to safely put divers in the water. These factors often include support personnel, shore-based equipment, and on many occasions, working dogs. So what is a working dog and what makes one different from the standard puppy roaming around our homes?

Diving a Dream – Matthew Johnston

Matthew Johnston, who has Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy, which is a life-threatening disease that leaves him confined to his wheelchair full-time and is unable to breathe on his own and requires use of a ventilator. Despite his disease his dream is to Scuba Dive.

The One Situation PS Diver Training Does Not Prepare You For

Given the extensive nature of public safety diver training and the specialized equipment public safety diving teams generally have at their disposal, it’s easy to understand why ERDI-trained divers might feel that, “We are the only ones prepared to do body recoveries — any body recovery. And, if not us, then who?” Unfortunately, that’s a belief that can easily get you killed.

Tanya Chapman

Mark Powell