Critical Skills Diver and Light Salvage & Recovery
Schedule
Mon Aug 12 2024 at 08:00 am to Fri Aug 16 2024 at 06:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Loveland Fire Rescue Authority | Loveland, CO
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Critical Skills Diver training prepares Public Safety Divers (PSDs) to appreciate repetitive skills training as a means to improve in-water comfort and competence. This course is focused on diver self-rescue. PSDs gain muscle memory, stress survival responses, and achieve resistance against many stressors faced while diving. Proper response to key underwater emergencies are examined and practiced. Student skill level evolves through repetition of familiar and unfamiliar challenges. Simply, this course introduces the knowledge and skills that help PSDs to develop the ability to prevent and/or survive a diving emergency. Key training topics and the associated objectives include:
DIVER LIMITS
STRESS
PANIC
STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
CRISIS REHEARSAL
BE SURE TO BRING
Participants are encouraged to use ‘mission ready’ dive rescue gear appropriate to their team or AHJ including: Exposure Protection, Full Face Mask, Buoyancy Control Device, Regulator, Depth Gauge, SPG, Alternate Air Source, Compass, 2 Cutting tools, Weight System, and Fins.
Each student must have access to one full scuba cylinder per pool session.
Light Salvage and Recovery is Dive Rescue International’s renowned three-day (24 hour) training program for certified divers and surface support personnel. The Light Salvage and Recovery program offers an environmentally-conscious service to your community. Students should be prepared to make several lifts using various techniques. The focus of the program will be conducting salvage operations as they apply to underwater crime scenes and investigations. The techniques taught in this program can be applied to the salvage or recovery of boats, automobiles and aircraft. This program is conducted in a classroom, pool and at an open-water site to allow students to practice their new skills in a controlled environment before the field scenarios.
Key training topics include:
EQUIPMENT
LIGHT SALVAGE AND RECOVERY EVALUATION
STAGE LIFT OPERATIONS
LIFT BAG RIGGING OPERATIONS
GENERAL SAFETY GUIDELINES
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Where is it happening?
Loveland Fire Rescue Authority, 410 E 5th St,Loveland,CO,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
