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	<description>Where the world turns for rescue diving.</description>
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		<title>CLEARANCE SALE &#8211; LGS Buoyancy Compensators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lifeguard Systems Buoyancy Compensators
CLEARANCE SALE!!! &#8211; New &#38; Demo Equipment

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The Lifeguard Systems Public Safety Diver Buoyancy Compensator:

Quick Release Removable pony bottle pockets on both the left and right side
Quick release clips for rapid and easy pony bottle removal and pass-off
Extra-large, easy-to-use, quick-release shoulder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/clearance-sale-lgs-buoyancy-compensator-bcd100/</link>
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		<title>A response to &#8220;why&#8221; we train the way we do</title>
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We received a comment from our PSD ice diving video.
“We have plenty of ways of dealing with ice dive scenarios, none of which involve setting up rope systems to get divers to the last seen point. Our usual ice dive drill involves cutting a hole in the ice, however that is training for the diver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/a-responce-to-why-we-train-the-way-we-do/</link>
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		<title>Understand the safe way of PSD ice diving / rescue</title>
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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>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/understand-the-safe-way-of-psd-ice-diving-rescue/</link>
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		<title>Drysuit Tricks</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/drysuit-tricks/</link>
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		<title>Tenders in the PSD arena</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/tenders-in-the-psd-arena/</link>
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		<title>Drown Proofing Turn Out Gear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A firefighter dressed in turnout gear and no personal flotation device (PFD) falls out of a small boat during a flood in New Jersey while attempting to help flood victims. Tragically, he drowns.
All firefighters have the potential of experiencing accidental immersion in flooded basements or trenches, covered pools, and open water sites. Just look at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/drown-proofing-turn-out-gear/</link>
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		<title>Pet Rescue Device</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bo Tibbetts, an LGS instructor and our LGS Midwest Rep, made the following useful slideshow of how we perform dog ice rescues. The goal is to never get close enough to be bitten. Even the nicest dog can become a fierce biter when hypothermic and terrified by the advancing alien (the ice suit clad rescuer).  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/pet-rescue-device/</link>
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		<title>Surface Ice Rescue Pole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ice rescue pole is one of the most versatile, useful, easy to store and transport, inexpensive tools for technician-level ice rescue personnel. Ice rescue poles have seven main functions:

to test the ice as the rescuer approaches the victim(s)
to help prevent the rescuer from slipping and falling
to prevent full submergence if the rescuer penetrates the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/surface-ice-rescue-pole/</link>
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		<title>Learning how to Use and Clear an AGA mask</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/learning-how-to-use-and-clear-an-aga-mask/</link>
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		<title>Real Life Training for Real Life Scenarios</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two dogs were rescued Monday afternoon after spending eight days trapped on Potsdam&#8217;s Sugar Island in the freezing weather.
The St. Lawrence County Dive Team used a boat borrowed from Brookfield Power Corp. to cross the swift-moving Raquette River and a thin patch of ice to reach the starving chocolate Labrador retrievers, which ran away from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/real-life-training-for-real-life-scenarios/</link>
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