ScubaFest March 16-17, 2013 Colombus Ohio
presents the following Lifeguard Systems Workshops
ScubaFest
Take three LGS workshops and receive a 15% discount off the workshop price
Take four LGS workshops and receive a 20% discount off the workshop price
Take five LGS Workshops and receive a 25% discount off the workshop price.
For questions about course content contact Andrea at Lifeguard Systems (845) 657-5544 or
lgs@teamlgs.com or contact us on
www.teamlgs.com
Friday
- 9 to 1230: Underwater Forensics for law enforcement personel and pubic safety divers currently on dive teams not open to the public - $45
- 1 to 2:15 : Leadershp-Level Rescue and how to teach a more effective and profitable Rescue Diver class - $15
- 2:3 to 5:30 Advanced and Leadership Level Rescue-Diving Pool Session - $50
Saturday
- 9:30 to 11:30 Women and diving - 2 hour workshop: charge $20
- 12:30 to 4:30 How to become a safer and more beautiful diver: Ultimate Underwater Movement, The art of breathing underwater, How to become a safer diver - tricks of the trade $45
Sunday
- 8 to 10:45 The art of dive planning for safer and more enjoyable dives 2 hrs 45 minutes $30
- 11:15 to 1:15 The Art of Divemastering - 2 hour workshop: Charge $20
- 1:30 to 5:00 Searching in Zero Visibility Water - 3.5 hour workshop: charge $45
Workshop descriptions:
Friday
- Underwater Forensics for law enforcement personel and pubic safety divers 9 to 1230, 3.5 hrs, $45
For law enforcement personel, pubic safety divers, coroners/forensic pathologists, prosecutors, and anyone who would respond to any aquatic death scene from bathtubs, pools, and buckets, to lakes, quarries, ponds, and rivers. Learn how to work these scenes from Andrea Zaferes who has served as an expert on homicidal drowning cases all over the U.S. (e.g. the Laci Peterson body dumping in the Sanfrancisco Bay, the Drew Peterson bathtub homicide in IL, the Cristi Hall hot tub homicide in CA, the Leslie Mueller creek homicide in CO ), who assists the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children with their water-related cases, who has spoken in more than 40 forensic conferences worldwide, and who has been seen on Dateline, the Discovery Channel, the Judge Piro Show, and Dr. Phil for her advances in the field of aquatic death investigation. Includes handout package and wall certificate.
- Leadership-level Rescue-diving and how to teach a more effective and profitable Rescue Diver class. 1 to 2:15, $15
This workshop is for those who teach Rescue Diving, those who are in leadership-level positions, or for experienced divers who want to become safer and more effective rescue divers. The Rescue-Diver program does not fully prepare dive leaders for leadership level rescue. Learn what is Leadership-level/Advanced Rescue Diving and how is it different than what is taught in Rescue Diver. Leadership-level divers have a responsibility to the divers in their care and need to be capable of advanced skills such as stopping a panicked diver who is bolting to the surface and then maintaining that diver at one depth while establishing dynamic, safe, physical, eye-to-eye contact control. Such skill capability should be mandatory for divemaster, assistant instructor, and instructor certification. Experienced divers with strong dive skills who want greater rescue capabilities will also find this training very worthwhile.
This workshop will also teach instructors how to teach a more realistic, effective, and dynamic Rescue Diver program that will keep students returning every three years to re-take the program. Learn what Rescue Diver equipment students should purchase, and what continuing-ed classes theyll want to take the Rescue-Diver class.
C. Advanced and Leadership-Level Rescue Diving Skill Pool Session, 2:30 to 5:30. 3 hours, $50
This workshop is for those who teach Rescue Diving, who are in leadership level positions, or for experienced divers who want to become safer and more effective rescue divers. Real life rescue procedures for real life rescue will be presented with procedures to teach them in dynamic drills. Learn the difference between some commonly taught techniques and techniques that really work. Teach a Rescue Diver class that divers will re-take every three years. Learn the minimum rescue equipment a rescue diver should purchase.
Rescue Diver was designed for advanced divers, not dive leaders. If you teach rescue or want to learn about Leadership-Level Rescue take this workshop . Real life rescue procedures for real life rescue will be presented with procedures to teach them in dynamic drills. Learn the difference between some commonly taught techniques vs. techniques that really work. Teach a Rescue Diver class that divers will faithfully re-take every three years. Learn the minimum rescue equipment a rescue diver should carry with them.
Bring all your own dive gear and two tanks, plus a pool-suitable exposure suit, hood, and gloves, which are necessary for some of the drills. It is also recommended to bring weights in small denominations so changes can be made as needed. The average amount of weight we remove from students is 6 lbs, so be prepared to have your weight adjusted for safer and more neutral buoyancy which is absolutely critical for advanced rescue skills.
Saturday
D. Women and Diving, 9:30 to 11:30, 2 hours, $20
This workshop is for or all women divers and male dive leaders who work with women divers. Although women make up a much larger percentage of divers and dive leaders than we did 30 years ago, women still face some gender-related challenges. This workshop will cover ways in which women can become safer, stronger divers. One or two customized ankle weights placed on the right part of a womans gear or body can make a noticeable difference in her ability to have a comfortable dive. Can a smaller woman take care of an incapacitated, large male diver? Do women have unique philological concerns when it comes to going underwater and if yes, what can we do about them? Proven methods of holding your own with macho dive guides and sexist dive buddies to ensure your safety and enjoyment will also be discussed. Dive leaders will also learn tricks for dealing with challenging male divers and women divers who lack confidence.
- How to become a safer and more beautiful diver: Ultimate Underwater Movement, The art of breathing underwater, How to become a safer diver - tricks of the trade. 12:3- to 4:30, 4 hours, $45
This workshop is for any level diver, from newly certified diver to course director. Hovering is equivalent to a toddler learning how to walk. Ultimate underwater movement means gracefully skimming inches away from a reef without touching anything. Move as efficiently and smoothly as fish so you can school with them. Rotate into any position with no depth changes. Hold yourself in place in current without contacting anything, even with your head downstream. Cruise inches off sand without stirring it Ultimate underwater movement even allows you to swing dance on scuba.
Did you know that almost all divers are actually taught to hold their breath during ascents in several ways during basic and advanced dive training. We need to better recognize when we are holding our breath as instructors and as divers, and what can be done to prevent this. You will also learn how to breathe better in order to decrease the risk of panic, exertion, and high air consumption.
Learn how to recognize common, yet rarely discussed, accident risk factors with prevention and early recognition as the goals. This workshop will teach you how to wear your dive gear in safer ways, to understand the pros and cons of different types of dive equipment, how to evaluate your own dive skills and those of your buddies, and much more. A review of injury and fatality case histories will be used to provide a better understanding of how to become a safer diver and a more effective diver leader.
Sunday
- The Art of Dive Planning how to have safer and more enjoyable dives, 8:00 to 10:45, 2 hours 45 minutes, $30
This workshop is for all levels of divers from newly certified to course director. If you want to increase your diving enjoyment and safety, take this workshop. The vast majority of accident near-misses and dive fatal and nonfatal injuries could have been prevented with better dive planning. Learn simple ways to plan how much air youll need in order to make a safe ascent and safety or deco stop and be back on the boat with x amount of psi in your tank. Which tank has more air, an 80 cuft/3000 psi cylinder that has 2300 psi or a 72cuft/2474 psi cylinder with 2200 psi, and why should you care? Learn how to evaluate any particular dive in regards to your dive skills, dive equipment, and dive buddy to see if this should be a go or a no-go dive. Learn how to plan how to have the necessary amount of weight to keep you comfortable during the dive and neutral at the dives end and how to teach others to have that skill. A variety of contingency plans will be addressed that you should have in place for all dives. Bring your questions about dive planning as well.
- The Art of Divemastering, 11:15 to 1:15, 2 hours, $20
Become the divemaster that divers specifically ask for and tip well. Become the reason divers return to the same store or resort. Make a real difference in diver safety, enjoyment, and marine life conservation. The Art Divemastering involves constant and intense global observation skills to help divers become more confident, to achieve the joy of weightlessness and effortlessness diving, to create an enjoyable dive tour, and to prevent dive aaidednts.. Most divers want to look and feel good underwater - divemasters are a key to making that happen. This workshop will also teach you how to increase the chances of being hired as a divemaster and how to significantly increase tips from your customers.
- Searching in Zero Visibility Water - 1:30 to 5:00, 3.5 hour workshop: charge $45
Want to find a gun in a silty blackwater bottom covered with debris or find a drowning victim in 15 feet of grass in zero vis? Learn tricks of the trade to safely perform solo-tethered-tender-directed searches, with divers using both hands to search, and not cutting their efficiency in half by keeping one hand on their line. Learn five procedures to prove that the item was not there, not that the dive team missed it. Includes educational material handout package and wall certificate.
Biography Andrea Zaferes:
Andrea started teaching diving with Dr. Lee Somers in 1983 and has devoted her life to teaching thousands of divers in the fields of public safety diving, instructor training, rescue, buoyancy control, and underwater investigation with mentor Walt Butch Hendrick in more than ten countries. She is a noted author with over 100 publications. Andrea was the first woman to receive the Beneath the Sea Diver of the Year Award, received the DAN Rolex Diver of the Year Award for contributions to diving safety and education, was a charter inductee into the Women Divers Hall of Fame, and was named by Dive Training Magazine as one of the top ten female instructors in the U.S. She is an internationally recognized public speaker, presenting in more than 40 forensic conferences and over 100 rescue and diving conferences. Andrea is Vice President of Lifeguard Systems and, and with Hendrick created such programs as Field Neurological Evaluation for Diving Accidents, Oxygen Administration for Scuba Divers, Leadership Level Rescue, Aquatic Death and Homicidal Drowning Investigations, ice rescue, and much more. Andrea is a NAUI Course Director, an ACUC Master Instructor Trainer, and a PADI master instructor. She is a medicolegal death investigator with Dutchess County Medical Examiners Office, has 18 years of experience working as an EMT, is a court-certified expert in the field of aquatic death and homicidal drowning investigation, and has been asked to review hundreds of body-found-in-water and diving accident/fatality cases.
Stay Safe always,
Andrea Zaferes
www.teamlgs.com Lifeguard Systems
(845) 657-5544 fax 657-5549
PO Box 594 Shokan NY 12481
Call for information on water death investigations, water rescue/recovery training and equipment, and water operation procedures.
Once again the Ohio Council of Skin and Scuba Divers will be holding ScubaFest.
The dates are Mar 15-17,2013 and the event will be located at Embassy Suites in Dublin, Ohio.
As usual they will be conducting a PADI Discover Scuba Session on Sat and Sun. All equipment and instructor time is donated by Aquatic Adventures of Ohio. Last year 69 Discover Scuba sessions took place.
In addition the above, an Equipment and Travel Show will also be held. An Ohio Regional Photo Contest will also be conducted. The grand prize is a week aboard Aggressor Fleet, the peoples choice awrd will be presented with a $500.00 gift certificate for travel with Deep Blue Adventures. Saturday evening will be the annual banquet will be held. Scheduled to appear are members of the Navy's elite force the SEALS. In addition, there will be several workshops and presentation during the entire show. Please plan to attend this awesome event. Visit
www.scubafest.org for all of the details of this event.[/QUOTE]
