Public Safety Diving

For instructors, dive team captains, surface teams, and underwater personnel. 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 SOPs. Also, chapters on methods of search in black water, swift water, and contaminated water, as well as techniques for evidence recovery.