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me neither, I had to "google" it to see what it looked like. Sorry

I think we are agreeing on many of the same points Padi, training is the key. Big time. I was just offering some friendly advice. I can tell you that I have had the fortunate ability to travel around, meet, observe, and work with many many PSD teams in North America. I am all for anyone...

For us.., three years, 100 hrs bottom time, 100 PSD dives, trained PSD supervisor, signed off by the team leader as a suitable candidate. Then you can take the course.

Want a little advice.., if you are somewhat new to the PSD realm, take four or five years, get some good exposure and experience in the field doing the work and THEN start looking at your PSD Instructor cert. A year experience and 20 missions is a little light for being 'the guy'. Taking a...

If we are diving in a "confined space' i.e. overhead environment we must do it on surface supplied air. If we are in the full length of our hoses and cannot go further, then we call it. If we call it, we are done. We are (in the Great White North) prohibited from turning to other 'teams' or...

oops.., busted (I hadn't gotten to the links yet. I have not had time to go through it all yet, but I've sort of skimmed over it. I'll dig deeper in teh next day or so. Any info would be great Yotsie

I'm curious because I have not really played with DUI in our work environment, but does DUI provide breakthrough times for their suits...., on both PENETRATION and PERMEATION levels?? I know White's (as of a few months or so ago) only had penetration data. We want/need/require permeation data...

To answer your question Serdin and do my best to avoid a debate on the best suits to work in, I have two Vikings, a BARE, a Whites HAZMAT, a Whites Fusions and a crushed neoprene and a normal neoprene drysuit. We dive Viking anytime we work, but I dive whatever when 'play' diving. If you...

You da man Blades, Thanks!!

I know bigger isn't always better but there are certain logistical issues that are present with bigger teams that are not present on smaller teams. I need to look at how other 'large' teams deals with such things is all. Trust me, it isn't a 'big dick' thing, I am just making inquiries on how...

you can alomst hear the "Jeopardy" music playing.... In the US but not counting military, does anyone know who has the largest PS dive team?? I'm in the middle of doing a comparison report..., yee-hah

You left out the part about us trying to finish our coffee at the same time because we know once we get on scene it is going to get cold :)

Not us either.., not the type of gear we'd use. I would however be interested in if anyone uses (has used) their haz-mat bc.

Here are the steps I would recommend(I hope I answer your questions logically but I am still only on my first coffee of the day..... 1. Go to the local PD and find out if them using divers is true. Get a contact name. 2. Locate a dive shop and take your Open Water SCUBA course 3. Take a...

Good catch bleeb.., that is why I should stay off the computer when drinking Rum. The 1.8mph is accurate speed, the 2kts was my bad. I screwed up the conversion (flipped the 1.1 to 1 ratio) to compare it to the knots needed to move a body. My mistake all the way. Didn't mean to hijack the...

It was done with divers in full gear...., trust me. Either that or someone pulled a joke on me and I swam with gear on for nothing. AS for pubmed, My 400 and 800 swim times put me at over 3.2km/hr and I'm not a good swimmer.., below average in our circles. It take roughly a 1.5 kt current...

I don't have any info on the acccident but want to comment on a couple areas. For future reference in your own mind because some have sort of agreed to disagree.... In the police diving world studies have been done relating to speed of currents(It has to do with the amount of current to...

Our federal regulations require a harness that can lift a diver out of the water, which is covered by this harness c/w crotch strap. We use to have a separate harness but went away from it simoply because what we had now suited what the requirement was. One of the big points is like dittrimd...

We use the Halcyon as our harness unless under ice or diving surface supplied air at which point we use a full dedicated harness. We use a locking Carabineer on the line and only use a quick disconnect when diving in current.

If we are sending one diver to check out a sea chest or specific area, we send them on a line. If we are sweeping an entire hull.... provided a diver on the keel can see ambient light to see their exit, we'll send numerous divers in on a 'half-necklace'. They have a line to assist in dressing...