Anyone who has ever performed a public service, or works to improve the lives of others may take issue with that
How Angry Should I Be at this Instructor?
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Anyone who has ever performed a public service, or works to improve the lives of others may take issue with that
soggybadger
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Maybe. But in my defence the op claims to be one but seems to struggle with basic practice. No offence was intended. I was just surprised that a psd would be worried by the situation. What are the skill requirements for psd? Or is it voluntary?
Anyone who has ever performed a public service, or works to improve the lives of others may take issue with that
I am not a PSD, but I believe that you will find the skill requirements vary to some degree by location--specific departments may have some serious differences in training requirements.
Public Service Diving is usually done in a dry suit, in fact special ones designed to be able to be worn in contaminated waters. I would think that an active PSD diver would have had dry suit training.
soggybadger
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I see. Maybe the op is in training.
Public Service Diving can be extremely hazardous. One just died in a PSD operation a month or so ago. You can't just go in and volunteer.
pinshootr
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1. The 1 minute rule to surface
2. Get buoyant
3. If you are cold surface immediately
No to #3 If he would have paid attention in his Dry-suit class/pool he would have know to add a bit of air !!!!!!!!
2. Get buoyant
3. If you are cold surface immediately
No to #3 If he would have paid attention in his Dry-suit class/pool he would have know to add a bit of air !!!!!!!!
soggybadger
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Had seen an article on psd. Sounded proper dangerous. Haz/chem bio and radiation etc. Big steely nads.
KevinNM
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It's seriously nasty dangerous work. Things like "In this pond, which has visibility of less than 4 inches, I want you to go find the car that drove onto the water yesterday, enter the car (which is upside down) and remove the body of the 3 year old somewhere inside and bring her up before we pull the car out with a wrecker." So you are dealing with tight overhead spaces in zero vis, water contaminated with gasoline and oil, biological contamination and finding a dead child and removing her.
That is real and significant stuff that.
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