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Permalink Reply by Brian Cohen on January 24, 2011 at 10:59am

Barry, I work for NFSO and our director Skip Starling helped draft the NFPA standards for and helped develop IDEA Public Safety Diving and swift water diving standards that should be used in dive teams today. I myself am a Public Safety Diver we have a local and national response teams.

Permalink Reply by Barry Copley on January 31, 2011 at 8:48am

Thats good.I think every department should have a certified dive team.Around here not too long ago we had to save a drunk from the river.He got drunk fishing and fell in.I'm not a diver yet but I plan on certifying pretty soon.I just certified in CPR/First Aid a little over a week and a half ago so now I'm a First Responder.I figure I'll take it one step at a time and plus the area I live in only gives certain classes at certain times.And sometimes they say well our budgets too low right now and all that Broo Ha.lol

Permalink Reply by Bob Kolva on March 5, 2011 at 11:46pm

We have a boat and work with the Sherriff’s Dive Rescue Team. They practice using our boat as a dive platform with our personnel acting as drive tenders. This speeds the response to our lake, since their dive team members are volunteers covering a large area and may be responding without their boat.