Dive Medic???

[vaststars]

So, awhile ago, I'm watching this show on the History Channel called MONSTER QUEST. I can't remember which one I was watching exactly, but the host is talking about diving into a lake (obviously looking for a 'monster') and points to a second diver and says "and this so-so, a dive medic." Then they dive.

What is a "dive medic??"

When you google it, you only get schools that could be scams for all you know. But it doesn't say exactly what a dive medic does, or what they make a year.

My husband is a paramedic and a scuba diver-if he could combine the two to do something he actually loves-that would be awesome. But no one seems to know exactly what this profession is, which school isn't a scam, or anything about it. Just theories or ideas. It doesn't seem to simply be rescue diver, or something. There seems more to it then just being both (medic and diver) in two different worlds.

Anyone know??
Is there any objective (non-schools) information about this elusive career people whisper about? Thanks!

 

[tc]

It's a certification issued by the National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medicial Technology. (NBDHMT)

Here's their page- National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology

Dive Medics are most commonly employed by the commercial dive companies.

 

[tc]

Oh- I would have voted if you had an option for "I are one".

 

[chrisski]

I'm a commercial diver, not a medic. A dive medic usually runs the chamber for surface decompression - like in the gulf where almost every dive is 100' + or in the case of a baro trauma ... or pressure related injury.... is in direct contact with a doctor (whose speciallty is hyperbaric medicine ) . He/she runs the chamber for a treatment table (a schedule of time and depth and or gase{es} and ascent to surface pressure) as prescribed by the doctor, because usually the medic is on a platform offshore, the doctor is not. It is usually manditory to have one whilst working offshore because you're miles from anywhere and in the case of the bends, etc., youre much more likely to save the poor soul who got hurt if you treat him/her right away rather than fly them to land.
Hope that resolves some things for you.