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		<title>Rescue Net</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Zaferes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of being a prepared rescuer is knowing how to get an injured diver or person out of the water and up onto a boat or dock. The first step is to strip all the gear off a diver, if this hasn’t already been done. The next step is to keep the patients horizontal when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Safety Diving Search Patterns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Zaferes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walt Hendrick, Andrea Zaferes, and Craig Nelson MD.
If you took a recreational rescue diver course or recreational search and recovery course, you probably learned a number of different search techniques, such as the expanding square or circular search using a line.  These techniques might work well for high-visibility, buddy diving, but they are not [...]]]></description>
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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>Evidence &#8211; we all should know how to handle it</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Zaferes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may be more to it than meets the eye! in SORTIE Vol. 1 no. 2 brings up the point that drowning can be homicidal, and that a body could be dumped in the water in an attempt to cover up foul play. A significant percentage of dive teams today are fire teams. These teams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Said NO! Or Is That An Order&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forest Rothchild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ken Balfrey
As law enforcement officers, do we have the right to say no in a surface or subsurface rescue situation? Are our departments and ranking officers (Chief, Sheriff, or Public Safety Directors) telling us we have to attempt a rescue? Do we have the equipment, skills, or training to make an educated, practical and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why wearing a harness is important for safety and search effectiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forest Rothchild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why wearing a harness is important for safety and search effectiveness

Sometimes we take for granted that the value of a harness is obvious. We stop taking it for granted when we meet teams that either never thought of the concept or who are resistant to it. In either case, education needs to take place.
As low [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning how to Use and Clear an AGA mask</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Zaferes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Desired Learning Outcome (DLO) of clearing an AGA is as follows. Two years from at 0200 hrs, you are called to a submerged vehicle with two passengers. It is cold and rainy. The team is in rescue mode. You are the primary diver. The tender’s good calculations put you right on top of the [...]]]></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>Understand the safe way of PSD ice diving / rescue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forest Rothchild</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ice Diving]]></category>
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The ice drowning season is just upon us. Now is the time for Fire Fighters, First Responders, Dive Teams, and Law Enforcement to experience The New Wave of Public Safety Ice Diving, and for the public to learn what they should and should not do if someone falls through.
Drowning is the 2nd most common cause [...]]]></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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