Pool Dive Skills Circuit for Public Safety Dive Team

[@mikeabbitt8309]

Retired PSD (DRI Cert.) here. I worked for Pittsburgh River Rescue for 14 years. I enjoyed the video, and wish that we had some of the drill stations you have. A couple of things that we did that I didn’t see you guys doing. First, we ran our hoses tucked through our BCDs to minimize entanglement hazards. In the river environment we dove there are a lot of hazards; trees, rebar, wire rope near the old steel mill sites, etc. We ran our hoses between the BCD and our drysuits, keeping everything nice and tight to our bodies, and thereby eliminating the big loop extending above and behind us. Second, we did our disentanglement drill with our masks blacked out. Again, our river environment limited out visibility to from zero to three feet, diving in the Monongahela is like diving in chocolate milk. So practicing in zero visibility was paramount in developing the proper skill and technique. Finally, I could not tell how the air hookup was made to the rescued diver. In Pittsburgh we figured out how to ‘back feed’ air through the BCD inflator, and make the hookup there. The advantage is the rescued diver does not have to remove his/ her mask at any time (making the diver both more comfortable in a stressful situation, and allowing him/ her to stay in communication with topside.). The disadvantage is the rescued diver cannot inflate his/ her BCD once the underwater portion of the rescue has been made, and the rescuer diver has to control the ascent of both divers. Anyway, that’s my two cents worth, I hope it helps.

[@ivoryjohnson4662]

This is an amazing piece of video it shows another facet of diving

[@shawnrichter9372]

Excellent video, the veterans affairs fire department will be using this for our pool training!

[@TheRescueInstitute]

Cool Video! What Certifying agency are you guys certified by for Public Safety?

[@bretthalderson-scubalog709]

It's a mix between PADI and Dive Rescue Intl. A few of the team members have PSD certification from both. Thanks for checking it out.

[@frantarctic]

I'm not able to access the google drive files, I'd like more information on this because I'm trying to set up training for my dive team. Unfortunately we had all of our experienced divers leave due to various reasons and no one has anything for training. I'm essentially attempting to build a training program now from scratch and any ideas would be appreciated

[@bretthalderson-scubalog709]

Here's my email [e-mail] Send me an email and I'll try to help you out as much as I can. Thanks, Brett

[@keithsaunders6342]

This is a great circuit; I would recommend building to a level of more realism. First round like you did, then the next round add thick gloves, and finally with gloves and a blacked out mask. Great training.

[@bretthalderson-scubalog709]

Thanks, and yes, we've been adding limited visibility mask covers and tape to do a full blackout.

[@sharpe992]

Loved the video. Using some of your stations in our training now. Question, did you do the video on how to make the pvc training mannequin?

[@bretthalderson-scubalog709]

Hey Doug, I'm glad it worked for you. I had recorded us putting together a couple more of the pvc mannequins but the video was so bad that I'll have to wait until I get some better footage. I do have the plans and I can send them to you if you would like.

[@sharpe992]

Brett Halderson - SCUBA LOG that would be great. Email is [e-mail]

[@elwood1827]

Hey Doug, I also would like to get a copy of your PVC mannequin plans. We run a Fire / Rescue PSD in New England, Great Video. Stay Safe. [e-mail]

[@bretthalderson-scubalog709]

@@elwood1827 Not a problem, I'll email you the info. Brett

[@thiagoribeiro5937]

Hi, Brett. Could you send me the plan too? I’m a part of a Boat Unit of the Military Police in Brazil. It would help us a lot in our dive trainning. My email is: [e-mail]

[@silentscuba]

Have you guy's looked at the NERD 2 Heads up display for the PSD market ? Here is a link to a video for you to watch- kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIq0hKKDepJ7obM

[@bretthalderson-scubalog709]

Hey Curtis, Yes, I've been using Shearwater computers for a long time with the Shearwater Predator being my first tec computer. None of our local teams are using the NERD but it would be interesting to see how they like it.

[@nohlyred]

Hi Brett, was wondering if you would be able to send me the info on the PVC dummy, we could use something like that for our pool and outdoor training. Thanks for the great dive skills! Will be using some of these great ideas.

[@bretthalderson-scubalog709]

Hey Randee, Thanks for reaching out and I hope the info from the video works well for you. Hopefully these links work. If not, let me know. www.midwestdivetraining.com/public_safety_diving/blog/Adult_Mannequin_Diagram.pdf www.midwestdivetraining.com/public_safety_diving/blog/Child_Mannequin_Diagram.pdf www.midwestdivetraining.com/public_safety_diving/blog/Making_your_own_PVC_training_dummy.pdf

[@oufc29]

Would love to be able to do this while wearing a drysuit like they are