This course is designed to introduce the public safety professional to the ERD Tender skills necessary to participate in public safety diving operations in a non-diving roll. While the ERD Tender course is a non-diving course; the tender student should have a working knowledge of diving physics, physiology, techniques and equipment.

ERD (Emergency Response Diving) I

This entry level emergency response diving course is designed to give the public safety diver the fundamental skills needed to safely function as part of a public safety dive team and is OSHA and NFPA compliant. Topics such as problem solving, tender skills, search patterns and evidence handling are covered just to name a few. Dive skills include executing search patterns, victim recovery, and decontamination procedures among others. ERD (Emergency Response Diving) I also serves as a prerequisite to ERD I OPS (Operations) Components courses.

ERD (Emergency Response Diving) I OPS Components

This ERDI course enables the public safety diver to develop detailed knowledge and advanced skills in emergency response diving. In addition, students will gain experience in utilizing drysuits and full face masks as part of dive operations. ERD (Emergency Response Diving) II is also a prerequisite to ERD Supervisor as well as ERD (Emergency Response Diving) II OPS (Operations) Components courses.

ERD (Emergency Response Diving) II OPS Componnents

The training you will receive in the ERD (Emergency Response Diving) Supervisor course will prepare you to supervise ERD (Emergency Response Diving) team operations as well as assist ERD Instructors with training. OSHA regulations, NFPA standards, supervising divers in varying conditions and interagency operations are some of the topics covered. Like all ERDI courses, ERD Supervisor is OSHA and NFPA compliant.

The ERD Instructor course is designed to cross over current open water instructors with public safety diver experience, current open water instructors teaching independent public safety diver specialities and other public safety diver instructors. The program is divided into two (2) sections, an Instructor Development Course (IDC) and an Instructor Evaluation Course (IEC).

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