South Dakota Rescue Diver

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Location
Yankton, South Dakota
# of dives
25 - 49
New to Scubaboard.com but not new to diving. I am the director of a our county Search and Rescue team which also has a Dive Rescue and Rescovery team. Ask any questions if you have them:meeting:
 
Welcome to Scubaboard!

Your post suggests interest in public safety diving and it appears you have 25 to 49 dives total and your profile says diving 3 years total diving experience.

Are you on the dive rescue and recovery tream, or just interested?

How many dives did you do this year so far?

Of tyour total dives, are any of them PSD training dives (formal class or otherwise)?

If so, any experience in actual search or recovery situations?

How much experience do you have in low viz (5' or less)? Zero viz?

Any ice diving experience?

Any experience with a FFM?

How many dives do you plan to do per year from this point forward?

What are your current cert levels including recreational (OW, AOW, Rescue, Tech certs, etc) and PSD (Dive Rescue I, Dive Rescue 2, Evidence Recovery, etc).

Do you plan to obtain any other advanced or technical certs?
 
What is the average air speed of a fully laden swallow? What questions are you looking to answer? There is a psd forum here with some highly experienced and qualified psd divers and instructors ,if you are looking for answers yourself those guys would have them.
 
Your post suggests interest in public safety diving and it appears you have 25 to 49 dives total and your profile says diving 3 years total diving experience.

Are you on the dive rescue and recovery tream, or just interested?As stated in my post...Yes

How many dives did you do this year so far? 15+

Of tyour total dives, are any of them PSD training dives (formal class or otherwise)? 50% of them were

If so, any experience in actual search or recovery situations? Yes

How much experience do you have in low viz (5' or less)? Zero viz? All of our PSD diving and training is in less than 2 inches or 0 viz. (can't read computer most of the time)

Any ice diving experience? Yes, I am Ice dive and rescue certified.
Any experience with a FFM?

How many dives do you plan to do per year from this point forward? 20+

What are your current cert levels including recreational (OW, AOW, Rescue, Tech certs, etc) and PSD (Dive Rescue I, Dive Rescue 2, Evidence Recovery, etc). ERDi, DRI, DRI2, DRI Boat Based Operations, Evidence Recovery Operations, DRI Med Diver, and DRI PSD Survival

Do you plan to obtain any other advanced or technical certs? Absolutely
 

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