PUBLIC SAFETY DIVING, Walt "Butch" Hendrick and Andrea Zaferes, 2000
Written for instructors, dive team captains, surface teams, and underwater personnel alike, Public Safety Diving offers definitive information on procedures for safe operations, proper methods of training, and how to make appropriate purchasing decisions.
Various techniques and types of equipment are discussed and assessed.
Safety is the constant theme throughout, with an emphasis on surface support, accident prevention, contingency procedures, risk/benefit analysis, and standard operating guidelines. included also are chapters on methods of search in black water, swift water, and contaminated water, as well as techniques for evidence recovery.
This book is a must-have for any department seeking routine outcomes to underwater operations: that victims are saved, that evidence is recovered intact, and that personnel return from the bottom safe and sound.
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS - Step-by-step safety procedures and techniques for dive teams at all levels of expertise; Learn to conduct safe, effective training drills.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Foundations of a Public Safety Dive Team; Dive Team Command; Dive Team Personnel; Diver Training; Equipment for Shore Personnel; Diving Equipment; Cylinder Safety; The Initial Response; Deploying the Team; The search; Search Patterns; Communications and Line Signals; Contingency Procedures and Scene Safety; Physiological Components of Diving; Diving Maladies; Contaminated Water; Handling the Drowning Victim; Submerged Vehicles; Boat Operations; Law Enforcement Operations; Special Considerations and technology; Appendix; Answers to Study Questions; Index.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Walt "Butch" Hendrick has been training public safety dive teams and rescue personnel for more than twenty-five years in more than fifteen counties. Founder and president of Lifeguard Systems Inc. and Riptide Inc., he is a major innovator in and contributor to the water operations industry. Many water and ice accident victims around the world are alive today because of his innovations, training programs, publications, audiovisual materials, equipment designs, public speaking, and actual rescue efforts. Along with Zaferes, he is the coauthor of Surface Ice Rescue, (Fire Engineering, 1999).
Andrea Zaferes first taught diving with Dr. Lee Somers and Karl Huggins at the University of Michigan's Scientific Diving Program. She served as a diving safety officer for the American Museum of Natural History's Animal Behavior Research Department and had three research papers published by the age of twenty-two. She took her first rescue diving course at the age of sixteen. Andrea is currently vice president of Lifeguard Systems Inc. and Riptide Inc. A certified New York State EMT, she is a course director for NAUI and ACUC and an instructor for PADI, DAN, and the Red Cross. She teaches approximately 1,000 surface rescue and dive team personnel annually. She coauthored several other books with Butch Hendrick, has written more than 100 published articles, and was the managing editor of SORTIE magazine.
7" x 10", 240 pages, photos & illustrations, hardcover BP6060 / $36.95