Scubaduke, this comes from a 10 year veteran of PSDiving. I am a former Commander of a 31 member Dive/Rescue Team from central Georgia, who took 5 volunteers, trained them to be rescue divers and built the team to 18 certified rescue divers and 13 surface support techs. We had no money, held fundraisers and took on private donations of equipment and resources. When the new Sheriff got elected, we had $300,000.00 worth of equipment and resources. The new Sheriff decided that central Georgia did not need a Dive/Rescue Team and fired all the Captains and Commanders and took all of the equipment and left it sitting on the pavement to dryrot. $800.oo AGA masks and communicators, $2000.00 drysuits and so forth. My suggestion to you is, don't put too much into it. Especially if it's for a Sheriff. We saved lives, helped lost children and elderly people find their loved ones, we touched many hearts and inspired many young people to persue our tasks. But after it was all said and done, the very people we were making look good out of all of this were the one's who shafted us. Training, training,training is the key to surviving the blackwater dives you get in Georgia. GPSTC has a good program with Donnie Roberts and all, but don't stop there. get as much training as you can and stay in the water yearround. Not just ten or twelve times a year. Good luck my friend.