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
• SDI 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