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.
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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.
Temperature and Encapsulation
Diver safety is paramount when considering temperature and how it may affect a diver’s health.
Unwritten Rules of Tech Diver Etiquette
With any sport or hobby, there are certain unwritten rules of etiquette we should all consider.
Surface Supplied vs. Back Gas
Air delivery is one topic that must be discussed and planned on any dive team.
Benefits of Tech Training as a Sport Diver
There is always something to learn, and an intense focus on improving skill sets and better understanding dive theory can help any diver perform more efficiently in the water on almost any type of dive.
Things to Remember on Your First Call
No matter what, you will get some butterflies in your stomach and the thrill of a real world mission cannot cloud your need to remain a responsible team member.