The Special Response Diver Course is an intensive 5-day course designed to enhance the knowledge, skills, and abilities of public safety divers. The course will combine classroom instruction with practical in-water application.
The student will be exposed to tasks that directly relate to public safety diving like, dive team management and organization, selection of search patterns, equipment configuration, basic crime scene investigation and preservation, vehicle extrication, inspections of boat hulls, bridge, piers, docks, and much more.
This course will give any diver an excellent foundation as a public safety diver that will make them a valuable asset to any team!
Multiple dive scenes, massive search areas, divers from different agencies; these are all managed by a Dive Scene Commander.
Learn directly from SRDI leadership in this 5-day course that equips an SR Diver with the tools and knowledge to handle large scale searches, how to integrate multiple divers from different agencies into an investigation, and other skills like:
The purpose of this course is to train and certify a team member that is not intending to perform the underwater searches as a diver. This is a critical support role for the team as each person, whether diving or not should learn basic underwater search and recovery, use of search pattern signals, equipment configuration, and dive team management.
SRDI instructors offer this course to team members who want to learn alongside the divers going through training. This is also a great option for a non-diving team supervisor or coordinator.
In underwater investigations, documentation is everything. As a public safety diver, you know that what’s easy on land becomes complicated underwater. The Crime Scene Photographer Course will help you by giving you a simple process to follow when recording underwater crime scenes. Register today and set yourself up for more successful underwater investigations!
