ERD I Technician Course

This first level Emergency Response Diving Course is designed to give the certified open water diver, or open water certified public safety diver, the fundamental skills needed to safely function as part of an OSHA and NFPA compliant public safety dive team in both the diver and tender roles.

Who this course is for:
A certified open water diver who is currently a public safety professional
A certified open water diver who would like to operate and support persons within a dive team organization
Course Prerequisites:
Minimum age 18
SDI Open Water Diver certification or equivalent
Current CPR, first aid and oxygen administration certification
What you can expect to learn:
Equipment preparation and selection, problem solving, tender skills, responding to a call, search patterns, scene evaluation, environmental risks, evidence handling
Dive skills including line signals, diver communications, executing multiple search patterns, victim recovery, emergency procedures, and decontamination procedures
How to continue and transition your ERD I training into ERD Ops Components courses
What’s in it for you and your team?
Structured training that solidifies diver and tender abilities in the participation of planning and executing dive team operations
Emergency Response Diver I level minimum requirements:
Diver evaluations
Demonstrate mastery of scuba skills, line signals, diver touch communications, and search patterns
800 metre mask, snorkel and fins swim, 500 metre distance swim no aids, 100 metre buddy tow in scuba equipment
Tender swimming evaluations
200 metre swim without aids, 100 metre buddy tow in personal flotation device (PFD), 10 minute survival float
Demonstrate effective line communications with divers, proper tending techniques