LtJohnBFD
Registered
Hello All,
I am the Technical Rescue Division Coordinator for the Bangor Maine FD, and we are finally moving towards officially being capable of responding with Rescue Divers. We are currently sponsoring 10 new divers through Beginners and Advanced Open Water Padi certification courses. We currently have 8 Certified Rescue Divers, who all received their Padi cards for the levels listed above.
My question is: Which Certification route does your Public Safety Dive Team follow in order to maintain some type of Standard?
While this FD is going with Padi for Beginners, Advanced, Ice Dive, and Rescue Diver, we also utilize the IADRS Guidelines for Annual Watermanship qualifications etc.
Is it truly best to have a standardized certification system such as Padi as a base core, or is there another avenue which we could consider ? The answer to this question is critical for the FD, because if our current course of certification continues, the Dept. is going to sponsor our own personnel to be certified as Padi Instructors in order to keep the cost within budgetary limits and allow members to be trained.
Thank you for your input and thoughts on this topic in advance,
Ltjohnbfd
I am the Technical Rescue Division Coordinator for the Bangor Maine FD, and we are finally moving towards officially being capable of responding with Rescue Divers. We are currently sponsoring 10 new divers through Beginners and Advanced Open Water Padi certification courses. We currently have 8 Certified Rescue Divers, who all received their Padi cards for the levels listed above.
My question is: Which Certification route does your Public Safety Dive Team follow in order to maintain some type of Standard?
While this FD is going with Padi for Beginners, Advanced, Ice Dive, and Rescue Diver, we also utilize the IADRS Guidelines for Annual Watermanship qualifications etc.
Is it truly best to have a standardized certification system such as Padi as a base core, or is there another avenue which we could consider ? The answer to this question is critical for the FD, because if our current course of certification continues, the Dept. is going to sponsor our own personnel to be certified as Padi Instructors in order to keep the cost within budgetary limits and allow members to be trained.
Thank you for your input and thoughts on this topic in advance,
Ltjohnbfd