Product Description
Once students have completed their ERD 1 Diver Technician eLearning, their next step is to complete the class and dives with an instructor.
Prerequisites:
- Completion of ERD 1 Diver Technician eLearning
- Minimum age 18
- SDI Open Water Diver certification or equivalent
- Current CPR, first aid, and oxygen administration certification
This course is for:
- A certified open water diver who is currently a public safety professional
- A certified open water diver who would like to operate and support persons within a dive team organization
Training will typically take place at Lake Pleasant over one weekend, Friday – Sunday.
The maximum number of students per session is 9 (3 teams of diver, tender, and backup diver – rotating each position)
What you can expect to learn:
- Equipment preparation and selection, problem-solving, tender skills, responding to a call, search patterns, scene evaluation, environmental risks, evidence handling
- Dive skills including line signals, diver communications, executing multiple search patterns, victim recovery, emergency procedures, and decontamination procedures
- How to continue and transition your ERD I training into ERD Ops Components courses
What’s in it for you and your team?
- Structured training that solidifies diver and tender abilities in the participation of planning and executing dive team operations
ERDI 1 Standards and Procedures
Requirements:
- Diver evaluations
- Demonstrate mastery of scuba skills, line signals, diver touch communications, and search patterns
- 800-meter mask, snorkel, and fins swim, 500-meter distance swim no aids, 100-meter buddy tow-in scuba equipment
- Tender swimming evaluations
- 200-meter swim without aids, 100-meter buddy tow-in personal flotation device (PFD), 10-minute survival float
- Demonstrate effective line communications with divers, proper tending techniques
