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Emergency Response Diving International claims to be the largest organization devoted to training emergency response divers [2] in public safety diving (PSD). It was founded in Orlando, Florida in 2000 by Scuba Diving International in response to a high accident rate in the training of emergency response divers.
Emergency response – Appropriate response of emergency services; Emergency response plan – Action to be taken in specific emergencies; Public safety diving – Underwater work done by law enforcement, rescue and search and recovery teams; Rescue diver – Recreational scuba certification emphasising emergency response and diver rescue
Saturation diving is normally done from a saturation system on a diving support vessel or an offshore platform.While under saturation, the divers cannot be decompressed quickly in response to an emergency as that would be rapidly fatal, and though unusual, emergencies requiring personnel evacuation have occurred on such platforms due to extreme weather or accidents.
Rescue Diver is a scuba diving certification level provided by several diver training agencies, such as PADI, [1] SSI, [2] SDI, [3] and NAUI, [4] which emphasises emergency response and diver rescue.
In the US, diving training agencies such as Emergency Response Diving International (ERDI), Special Response Diving International (SRDI), formally the National Academy of Police Diving, Team Lifeguard Systems, and Underwater Criminal Investigators have courses to train divers in public safety diving. [7] [8] [9] [10]
In some cases the dive buddy identifies the need by personal observation, but in the more general case identification of the need is followed by locating the casualty. The most common and urgent diving emergencies involve loss of breathing gas, and the provision of emergency gas is the usual response.
Diving procedures generally involve the correct application of the appropriate diving skills in response to the current circumstances, and range from selecting and testing equipment to suit the diver and the dive plan, to the rescue of oneself or another diver in a life-threatening emergency.
Emergency procedure – Plan of action to deal with an emergency; Emergency Response Diving International (ERDI) – American organisation for training and certification of emergency response divers; Emergency response plan – Action to be taken in specific emergencies; Emergency swimming ascent (ESA) – Emergency procedure used by scuba divers