Calumet Dive Rescue posted the following today regarding the rescue of a submerged victim after forty minutes underwater.
On this day, fifteen years ago...
At around 11:30am on February 14th, 2009, Dan Kleinhans, his daughter Savannah, and her friend Tiffany were traveling on Lake Winnebago...
Last year at the International Public Safety Diver Conference in Laughlin, NV we discussed Electrical Shock Drowning and the need for public safety divers and underwater investigators to be aware of the phenomena. An excellent article has been published and is available online at: Electric Shock...
Aqua Lung is conducting a voluntary recall of SureLock II weight pocket handles
as found on most Aqua Lung buoyancy compensators since 2009.
Please visit the link ... Recall Notice
which will take you to their website where you may read the recall
announcement, learn if your buoyancy...
The 2012 International Public Safety Diver Conference will take place
October 15-18, 2012 and the registration fees INCLUDE the hotel room!
The four day conference fee is $600 (hotel room included) and if you bring your dive buddy and share the room, they pay only $500. In addition to the...
KUDOS TO THE TEAM!!!
Dive team saves truck driver after canal crash - ABC-7.com WZVN News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida
Dive team uses underwater system to save truck driver - NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida
A man who landed his semi-truck in...
FROM: FirefighterCloseCalls.com
Captain Mike Burgin of the Sugar Creek Volunteer Fire Department was killed in the Line of Duty on Friday.
Captain Burgin was a member of the Tuscarawas County Dive Team and performed dive rescue operations for the Sugar Creek VFD as well. Captain Burgin was in...
KUDOS TO THIS DIVE TEAM!!! THEY WILL LIKELY BE HONORED AT THE 2012 INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY DIVER CONVERENCE IN OCTOBER FOR THE MOST DRAMATIC RESCUE OF THE YEAR, UNLESS SOMEONE KNOWS OF A PSD RESCUE THAT IS MORE DRAMATIC THAN THIS ONE. (Let me know if there is another worthy team!)
STAMFORD...
The 2012 International Public Safety Diver Conference will take place October 15-18, 2012 and the registration fees INCLUDE the hotel room! The four day conference fee is $600 and if you bring your dive buddy and share a room, they pay $500. In addition to the four day conference, access to...
An informative conference is taking place August 2-5, 2012 and is sponsored bt DAN, Best Publishing, WMS and others. Details can be found at: https://www.wdhmed.org/public-safety-divers-and-dive-teams.html
This "think tank" of professionals will discuss the latest information in recognition...
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DIVE RESCUE SPECIALISTS RECOMMENDS THAT ALL DIVE TEAMS USING WEIGHT SYSTEMS THAT ARE INTEGRATED INTO THE BUOYANCY COMPENSATORS IMMEDIATELY CHECK THEIR SCUBA UNITS TO MAKE 100% CERTAIN THAT THE WEIGHT SYSTEMS RELEASE AS DESIGNED...
Details of the December 20...
FROM: "Miracle" Ice Rescue Survivor Wants to Become Rescue Diver - WBAY-TV Green Bay-Fox Cities-Northeast Wisconsin News
This is just another example where public safety dive operations in the "rescue mode" have a positive outcome! Kudos to Connie Loewe, the Stockbridge Volunteer Fire...
Chesapeake police officer dies during dive-team training | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
Chesapeake police officer dies during dive-team training
By Sarah Hutchins
The Virginian-Pilot
December 20, 2011
A member of the police department dive team died during a training...
Two great white sharks swimming in the ocean spied survivors of a sunken ship. "Follow me son" the father shark said to the son shark and they swam to the mass of people.
"First we swim around them a few times with just the tip of our fins showing."
And they did.
"Well done, son! Now we...
This does not reference a "public safety dive" but speaks to why "we" do what "we" do...
People can be revived after prolonged submersion times, as evidenced by this article.
To those in the PSD community, keep doing what you do well! Merry Christmas!
-Blades-
Two-year-old 'dies' when his...
FROM: Tallmadgeexpress.com - Fire/medic earns prestigious dive rescue award
Fire/medic earns prestigious dive rescue award
November 20, 2011
by Jeremy Nobile | Reporter
Tallmadge, OH -- Locally, residents may know Lt. John Carney as a part-time fire/medic with the Tallmadge Fire...
Six divers trapped on sea bottom after ship sinks off Iranian coast
by: From correspondents on Lavan Island
From: NewsCore
October 22, 20119:07AM
SIX divers were trapped 70 metres (77 yards) below the surface of the sea overnight after a ship carrying 72 people sank in bad weather off the...
This will be an interesting case and some may find a benefit in showing the following article to the bean counters as funds are being slashed from the team. This is a "pay now" or "pay later" proposition and it costs a whole lot to pay later, as I believe the City of Alameda is likely to find...
The following is copied from: Miami Beach charter leaves divers in open waters off Key Biscayne - 10/03/2011 | MiamiHerald.com
Miami Beach charter leaves divers in open waters off Key Biscayne DANIEL SHOER ROTH
Alexia Fodere / For El Nuevo Herald
Paul Kline, one of the divers who was...
For a long while I have been corresponding with Earle Swope, a public safety diver who came as close to experiecing death underwater as anyone I have ever known. I share with the PSDs on the ScubaBoard my recent post to SAR Diver Forum...
Some of our long time Yahoo! Group SAR Diver Forum...
The schedule for the 2011 International Public Safety Diver Conference can be viewed at:
http://iadrs.org/media/2011 Conference Brochure.pdf
This will be a world class event hosted at a site minutes from one of the busiest and least expensive international airports in North America, steps from...
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