Butch Hendrick Webinar – Incapacitated Diver on the Surface Workshop Saturday, June 13, 2020 1:00pm EDT pre-registration required $25
How many dive leaders have been faced with this: “I’ve taken 3,000 people diving, I’ve had some difficulties before, but now this is IT – THIS IS THE REAL GIG. THE WORLD IS GOING BAD AND IT’S GOING BAD NOW AND I HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT BUT I DON’T KNOW HOW! I WAS NEVER TRAINED FOR THIS!” Butch Hendrick: Incapacitated Diver on the Surface Workshop, Saturday, June 13th 1:00pm EDT – $25, includes certificate Click here to SIGNUP for...
Safety Lessons for Sport Divers from Public Safety Diving by Andrea Zaferes
Safety Lessons for Sport Divers from Public Safety Diving By Andrea Zaferes, NAUI 10533, Team Lifeguard Systems Inc. COLUMNS | DIVE AND SAFETY RESCUE SKILLS Possibly one of the most important lessons sport divers can learn from PSD teams is how to decide when to dive and when not to dive. Click here to see entire article from 2018 2nd Qtr Sources Public safety diving differs from sport diving in many ways. Public safety...
Learning how to Use and Clear an AGA mask
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 vehicle. As you descend on it, the bottom of your AGA mask hits the top of the slightly opened driver’s door, and your AGA is pushed off your face...
Stop, Think, and Act
STOP, THINK, ACT By Walt “Butch” Hendrick The words and concepts are pretty simple and and areprobably familiar to all divers, but what do they mean? How do we put them to our best use? Let us take a look at some avenues where we can put the STOP, THINK and ACT concept into ACTion. # 1. BREATHING Before you can begin fixing specific problems, you must first address the number one problem – breathing. Breathing will at some point...
Buoyancy Control
Buoyancy control is actually much deeper than most people understand. It requires an understanding that we are in a weightless environment. It is only weightless because we do things to make it so, such as adding or reducing weight or air. And understanding that something as small as an ounce of air can make a difference. An ounce of weight held out in any direction can make a difference. One touch of the power inflator can change...