Emergency Response Diver 1 Operations Manual

EMERGENCY RESPONSE DIVER 1 OPERATIONS MANUAL The mission has started and several teams are on the scene. The teams represent different public safety diver teams from different stations, fire houses and other first responders. Fortunately, everyone is on the same page as their training has been standardized as a single unit using the most complete program designed for first responders and their dive teams.This entry level emergency response diving course is designed to give the public safety diver the fundamental skills needed to safely function as part of a public safety dive team and is OSHA and NFPA compliant. Topics such as problem solving, tender skills, search patterns and evidence handling are covered just to name a few. Dive skills include executing search patterns, victim recovery, emergency procedures and decontamination procedures among others. ERD I also serves as a prerequisite to ERD Ops Components courses.The ERDI Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the ERDI ce