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		<title>I am OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do we, as water rescue response teams understand what it takes, mentally and physically, to make the total operation work? How do we get the most from our rescue personnel, while maintaining strict safety standards?
Your beeper / Plectrum is going off, the code tells you to respond to a confirmed drowning. It is five fifteen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 15 minute Expert! PWC Operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personnel watercraft, are thrusting themselves into both the sport and public safety market at an unbelievable rate. The National Safe Boating Council states that more than 30% of all registered boats are personnel watercraft, while 60% of all boating and watercraft accidents involve PWC.
A Personnel watercraft is described as any vessel with a water jet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dressing divers and tenders for Mass Casualty Operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In parts I and II we discussed the initial steps for becoming prepared to manage a mass casualty water-related disaster such as a bridge collapse with multiple vehicle submersions. Drill training sessions were introduced with surface and subsurface personnel working around vehicles stacked up on land. This article discusses the minimum equipment needed by divers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drysuit Tricks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For sport divers, drysuits offer a warm advantage that can be used to extend the diving season – possibly all year – and to extend the amount of time divers are actually able to spend in the water.  For public safety divers who are often faced with contaminated water diving, though, drysuits are more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenders in the PSD arena</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we talk about public safety diving (PSD) we hear a lot about the divers and their training or   types of equipment divers need to get the job done safely. But when it comes to tenders they often get lost in the shuffle.
There are those who say you can take anyone off the street, hand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technical Ice Diving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technical Ice Diving
The words “technical diving” are popping up all around the diving world these days.  Sometimes I am not sure how they actually relate; does technical diving mean that we are just diving mixed gases, or does it mean that we are actually planning a technically responsible dive?  No matter how you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Training is Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Fire Rescue services are being tasked with more and more duties that require unique types of training, such as Haz-mat, confined space, vehicle extrication, and other specialties.  Because drowning is one of the top causes of accidental death for children and adults worldwide, water is a major issue for all rescue service agencies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Safety Diving in the new Millennium, part #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting on the river bank some 45 years ago watching my father teach many of the first Public Safety Divers I thought, this is as good as it gets.  I remember thinking what PSD would be like fifty years from now.   Well it has not changed all that much in all those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Safety Diving in the new Millennium, part #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 80s, and even through the early 90s, it was an oddity or even exotic for a fire or police department to have a surface / subsurface water rescue team.   As we rescue our way through the year 2000, weather patterns are changing.  Flooding has become a major issue in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underwater Vehicle Extraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter &#34;Butch&#34; Hendrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There Are no Flags
In Underwater Vehicle Extraction

The human senses are fully stimulated when a rescuer responds to a typical auto accident.  The flags are up.  The visual sense sees the twisted, collapsed metal, the entrapped conscious and unconscious bodies, and the bleeding, physically injured limbs.  The audible sense hears the moans and [...]]]></description>
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