In Charge or Responsible
Our responsibility is to know our job, equipment, and capabilities and let the others take care of theirs.
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How to Recruit the Right People for Your PSD Team
Recruiting for a dive team can be difficult, and in many cases your candidate pickings may be slim, but do not just accept members to fill seats.
Becoming a PSD Instructor in the Modern World vs. Old World?
In the old world of public safety diving, instructors were often experienced divers who used common sense to establish educational practices.
How to Start a Public Safety Diving Team
If you are forming, or plan to form a new dive team, I wish you luck. Even when taking on this task, ask for help and learn how others have been successful.
A Core Standard for a New Public Safety Diver
A core standard for training public safety divers is essential. Emergency Response Diving International (ERDI) has worked to develop a set of training protocols where equipment, safety planning, and operational activities are pre-designed to follow NFPA and OSHA guidelines.
4 Things You Can Do to Become a Better PSD
Many dive team members join as basic open water divers with minimal experience. To help this type of individual be a better public safety diver, there are many actions he or she can take.
Surface Supplied vs. Back Gas
Air delivery is one topic that must be discussed and planned on any dive team.
Can YOU Really Make a Living Being a Public Safety Diver?
Most of the time, it seems that the only pay off they do receive for recovering a weapon or someone’s child, is to be informed that they have no clue what they are doing
Leading Causes of Death for Public Safety Divers
Over the past year or so, I have been on a mission to figure out what the health risks are to public safety divers, what is causing injuries, why they are dying, and what ERDI can do to help prevent these accidents from happening.
Planning a Contaminated Water Dive
Diving in bodies of water known to hold contaminants can be dangerous and problematic. Planning must go into operations of this type and all parties should look for potential hazards and risks to mitigate problems.