Description Once students complete their eLearning, they complete your class and dives with one of our instructors. 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
