Dive Rescue 2

OBJECTIVE

The Dive Rescue II course is an intensive four-day program combining critical skills diving and rapid intervention techniques into one comprehensive training. CSD training focuses on building in-water confidence through repetition, emphasizing muscle memory, stress responses, and emergency preparedness. Students practice key skills to prevent and manage diving emergencies effectively. After completing the RIT program, the Public Safety Diver (PSD) will have established the baseline skills, knowledge, and abilities to recognize and respond to a PSD in distress on the surface or submerged. This course addresses requisite knowledge requirements found in NFPA standards.

CSD TOPICS

• Define Diver Limits
• Identify Diver Skills
• Different Stages of Diver Stress
• Scuba Diving-Related Stressors
• Different Signs of Stress a Diver Can Exhibit
• Physiological Effects of Stress
• Panic Reaction & the Physiological & Behavioral Symptoms
• Examine Diver Fatality Profiles
• Examine Human Cognitive Systems
• Examine Human Physiological Systems
• Fitness, Confidence, & Competence Training
• Scene Evaluation

RIT TOPICS

• Safety Diver Roles & Responsibilities
• Safety Check
• Signs of Distress
• Rapid Intervention Techniques to Assist Conscious and
• Unconscious PSDs
• Rapid Intervention Techniques to Assist Submerged Divers in
• Distress
• Special Considerations Concerning Staging Safety Divers
• Specialized Equipment

PREREQUISITES

• At least 18 years of age
• Member of a Public Safety Agency
• RSTC Medical Statement
• Open Water Certification
• Physically fit (13 MET or greater recommended)

BRING TO CLASS

All students will need:

• U.S. Coast Guard approved Personal Flotation Device (PFD)
• A knife
• A whistle
• Adequate clothing for working outside
• Pen and paper for taking notes and sketching

Diving students must provide their own equipment:

• Wetsuit or Drysuit
• Scuba regulator- recently serviced and environmentally
• protected with alternate air source (i.e.: Octopus, Air II, ect.)
• Timing device
• Depth and submersible pressure gauge
• BC with oral/power inflator
• Two tanks with current Hydro & VIP
• Full Face Mask, Snorkel, & Fins
• Weight belt
• Two cutting tools (knife, wire cutters, or trauma shears)