ERDI (Emergency Response Diving International) Contaminated Water Diving Operations student manual with Knowledge Quest student workbook - Discusses the principals behind public safety diving in contaminated water.
Chapters:
1. The Reality of it All
2. History
3. What is Contaminated Water?
4. How Contaminated Water Affects the Team
5. How Exposure Can Occur
6.Targets
7. Dive Planning
8.Equipment for Contaminated Water Diving
9. Decontamination
10. Recordkeeping
Appendix 1. Case Studies
Appendix 2. Example Forms

ERDI Diver 1

The mission has started and several teams are on the scene. The teams represent different public safety diver teams from different stations, fire houses and other first responders. Fortunately, everyone is on the same page as their training has been standardized as a single unit using the most complete program designed for first responders and their dive teams.

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, emergency procedures and decontamination procedures among others. ERD I also serves as a prerequisite to ERD Ops Components courses.

The ERDI Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the ERDI certification course. The emergency response diving environment is unique in many ways from any other diving environment or diving activity. Recreational divers are trained in such a manner so as to ensure maximum enjoyment from diving activities that involved minimal risk. Emergency response diving also differs from technical diving. Technical divers may push depth limitations and bottom times, they may dive in caves or in shipwrecks, but they are still for pleasure and in situations in which they are very controlled and calculated amounts of risk. The Emergency Response Diving program is more difficult than the previously mentioned courses, and it is this difficulty that is designed to help you meet the challenges of the job.

PADI Public Safety Diver Manual

*Caution*
While Mike Berry's book is full of great information on public safety diving, it does not take the place of proper PSD training from a QUALIFIED and EXPERIENCED PSD Instructor. This PSD Manual is designed to compliment the PSD certification class.

Please contact USWR for all your PSD equipment and training needs.

TDI Nitrox Manual with Knowledge Quest

The Nitrox Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the TDI Nitrox certification course. In many respects, nitrox is just a tool that can make your diving more enjoyable. Similar to an additional piece of equipment, once you have completed this TDI course and logged your first few nitrox dives, you will understand what a valuable tool it is. Nitrox will add useful options and flexibility to your dive planning and execution.

Using the Nitrox Manual as a reference, students may utilize the Knowledge Quest Work Booklet by answering the provided questions with the most appropriate and accurate answers. The Knowledge Quest is designed to be used as an assessment for enrolled students and their respective instructors.

*The manual alone is not a substitute for qualified Instructor Certification.

The Tender manual is the text-book literary assistant to the ERDI Tender certification course. This ERDI course will help develop the mindset and practical skills necessary to assist public safety divers. After completing the course, participants will be able to make choices based on operational and logistical concerns in order to best suit their mission parameters and personal needs.

Using the Tender manual as a reference, students may utilize the Knowledge Quest Work Booklet by answering the provided questions with the most appropriate and accurate answers. The Knowledge Quest is designed to be used as an assessment for enrolled students and their respective instructors.

The Extended Range and Trimix Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the TDI Extended Range and Trimix certification course. Extended Range diving is exploring the limits of up to 180 FSW (55MSW) for air as a bottom mix and up to 200 FSW (60 MSW) for basic trimix. Within this range, the diver can explore many additional sights that are beyond the standard recreational Open Water limit of 130 FSW (40 MSW).With the Extended Range course behind them, a diver will be properly equipped to evaluate and plan dives where some of the less frequently visited wrecks lie, some potentially rare fish can be sighted, as well as interesting geological features.

The Equipment Service Technician Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the TDI Equipment Service Technician certification course. This course will give an in-depth description of various topics regarding the handling of oxygen and system design, different blending methods, and finally oxygen cleaning practices.

The Nitrox Gas Blending is the text-book literary assistant to the TDI Nitrox Gas Blending certification course. This course will grant each student with an in-depth knowledge of various topics regarding the use, and preparation, of various diving gases used within the scuba environment. Detailed chapters include information on scuba gases, oxygen handling & system design, blending techniques, gas mixing mathematics, and finally mixing charts and various necessary mathematical formulas.

The Decompression Procedures Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the TDI Decompression Procedures certification course. TDI has brought this course to the recreational diver in response to the demand and desire for more information. The Decompression Procedures course is available to two classes of divers. Recreational divers can take the course to develop new skills and understanding. Recreational-Technical divers can take the course during the series of courses available through TDI, usually between Advanced Nitrox and Extended Range and Trimix.

TDI Intro to Tech Manual w/ KQ

The Intro to Tech Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the TDI Intro to Tech certification course. The purpose of this manual is to introduce the sport diver to the concepts of technical diving. It focuses primarily on defining the various activities, explaining the equipment, outlining the options, and previewing the information that will be further addressed during training in each specialty area.

Using the Intro to Tech Manual as a reference, students may utilize the Knowledge Quest Work Booklet by answering the provided questions with the most appropriate and accurate answers. The Knowledge Quest is designed to be used as an assessment for enrolled students and their respective instructors.

*The manual alone is not a substitute for qualified Instructor Certification.

The Nitrox Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the TDI Nitrox certification course. In many respects, nitrox is just a tool that can make your diving more enjoyable. Similar to an additional piece of equipment, once you have completed this TDI course and logged your first few nitrox dives, you will understand what a valuable tool it is. Nitrox will add useful options and flexibility to your dive planning and execution.

Using the Nitrox Manual as a reference, students may utilize the Knowledge Quest Work Booklet by answering the provided questions with the most appropriate and accurate answers. The Knowledge Quest is designed to be used as an assessment for enrolled students and their respective instructors.

TDI Decompression Procedures Student Manual w/ Knowledge Quest

TDIs latest version of the Decompression Procedures Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the TDI Decompression Procedures certification course. TDI has brought this course to the recreational diver in response to the demand and desire for more information. The Decompression Procedures course is available to two classes of divers. Recreational divers can take the course to develop new skills and understanding. Recreational-Technical divers can take the course during the series of courses available through TDI, usually between Advanced Nitrox and Extended Range and Trimix.

The TDI Decompression Procedures course prepares you for planned staged decompression diving. With a maximum operating depth of 45m/150 feet, this course is your first step beyond the normal sport diving limits. The TDI Decompressions Procedures course combined with the TDI Advanced Nitrox course form the foundation of all other technical courses.

*Copyright: 2011
*Version: 0814

*The manual alone is not a substitute for qualified Instructor Certification.

TDI Advanced Nitrox Manual with Knowledge Quest

The Advanced Nitrox Manual is the text-book literary assistant to the TDI Advanced Nitrox certification course. This TDI course will help develop the mindset and practical skills necessary to optimize Nitrox breathing mixtures for divers. After completing the course, participants will be able to make choices based on operational and logistical concerns in order to best suit their mission parameters and personal needs. The Advanced Nitrox course is the first step in taking scuba beyond the usual sport-diving applications.

Using the Advanced Nitrox Manual as a reference, students may utilize the Knowledge Quest Work Booklet by answering the provided questions with the most appropriate and accurate answers. The Knowledge Quest is designed to be used as an assessment for enrolled students and their respective instructors.

*The manual alone is not a substitute for qualified Instructor Certification.