Public Safety Diver
Join us on November 8, 9 & 10 for a Public Safety Diver Course!
Learn the fundamental skills required to work as a public safety diver or assist local authorities. Through scenario practice in real-world environments, gain experience as the primary diver, safety diver, dive supervisor and in a surface support role. PADI Surface Support Specialist is a sub-set of the Public Safety Diver course for nondiving team members. Students learn how to support divers from the surface, assist with pre-dive safety checks, equipment setup and scene management.
You do not need to be part of a public safety dive team to take this course.
Course Requirements
- 18 years old
- Current EFR or equivalent
- (Divers Only) Rescue Level Certification
- (Divers Only) It is highly encouraged that you take this course with your own equipment (mask, snorkel, fins, boots, gloves, BCD, regulator, wetsuit/drysuit). You will get the most out of this course by training in your own equipment.
- (Divers Only) You must have 2 different cutting tools
Please note that the course tuition ($775) does not include e-learning. If you are a non-diver taking the course as a PADI Surface Support Specialist, course tuition is $175, e-learning is not included. e-Learning can be purchased here.
Please call us at 831-375-1933 to sign-up for the course.
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Public Safety Diver Training
In the PADI Public Safety Diver certification course, students learn how to evaluate and manage a scene, critical self-rescue skills, search and rescue techniques, and communication procedures.
PADI Surface Support Specialist is a sub-set of the Public Safety Diver course for nondiving team members. Students learn how to support divers from the surface, assist with pre-dive safety checks, equipment setup and scene management.
What is Public Safety Diving?
Public safety dive teams search for lost or deliberately discarded objects and sometimes participate in criminal investigations. Their work can help provide legal and emotional closure and the job can be very rewarding. Public safety divers may be called upon to look for evidence, locate underwater vehicles and missing people, but not all public safety dive team members get in the water. Surface support personnel handle important topside tasks, such as scene management and witness interviews.
Advanced Training and Skills: Public safety diving requires special training and a significantly different mindset than recreational diving. Public safety divers may be asked to dive in limited visibility and other hazardous conditions. Public safety divers must have excellent search and recovery skills, learn special communication procedures and master self-rescue techniques. They also need topside training on how to manage a scene, bag evidence and interact with witnesses.
PADI Surface Support Specialist
Surface support specialist students will learn how to interview witnesses, direct snorkelers, assist with equipment preparation and donning/doffing, running the line tender, search directions, assisting with egress and first aid/cpr. They will learn documentation such as dive reports, crime scene sketches and dive control sheets.
Surface Support Specialist students support divers with set-up, predive checks, monitoring divers and post dive procedures. Surface Support Specialist students support divers by acting as line tenders, responding to simulated emergencies and helping recover the simulated submerged victim. They must attend all 4 open water dives and participate in all scenarios. Surface Support Specialist counts toward Master Scuba Diver rating for PADI divers.
