Who this course is for:
Any certified Public Safety Diver or team member who engages in rescue and recovery operations
Any certified  Public Safety Diver or team member looking to increase their diver awareness and skills
Any certified  Public Safety Diver or team member who is seeking the ability to enroll in ERDI II Ops Component training
Any certified  Public Safety Diver or team member looking to become an ERDI Supervisor

Course prerequisites:
Minimum age 18
Public Safety Diving I or equivalent
10 or more logged public safety dives, either training or operational dives, beyond EPublic Safety Diving I with a recognized public safety team
CPR, AED, O2, AND first aid certified or equivalents
 
What you can expect to learn:
Mechanics of drowning, including near drowning
Physiological changes to human remains
Crime scene identification and removal of crime scene evidence
Encapsulation considerations
Lifting techniques and considerations
Advanced skills for dry suit and full face mask diving
Learning decontamination procedures
Public Safety Diving II students will successfully locate an object, rig a lift bag and lift the object to the surface while maintaining evidence continuity. They will discuss the potential hazards and benefits of various lifting techniques and considerations for evidence recovery. Students will also learn physiological changes that occur to human remains and how to handle a body/body bag. Public Safety Diving II students should prepare to spend several hours in their dry suits, full face mask, and personal protective equipment.
 
What’s in it for you and your team?
After successful completion of the Public Safety DivingII course, participants will be able to enroll in Public Safety DivingOps Components, Public Safety DivingSupervisor courses as well as engage in rescue and recovery operations with their recognized public safety dive team.

Public Safety Diving II minimum requirements:

Minimum of 80 percent on the Public Safety DivingII written test, 100 percent remediation

Watermanship skills:

800 metre mask, snorkel, and fins swim non-stop. Use of arms is not permitted; recommend completion time is 16 minutes
500 metre distance swim, non-stop, without use of swim aids; recommended completion time is 16 minutes
100 metre buddy tow in full scuba equipment; recommended completion time is 4 minutes
Survival float without aids for 15 minutes; during the last two minutes the student will keep their hands above the waterline

Confined water skills:

Evaluation of basic scuba skills including redundant air source use
Dry suit skills including:
Proper donning, proper weighting, inflation and deflation, simulation stuck inflation valve, recovery from inverted position, and buoyancy skills
Full face mask skills including:
Equipment set up, proper donning and adjustment, entry technique, equalization, clearing partially flooded, remove and replace mask underwater, remove mask, and utilization of redundant air source
Open water skills:

Successful completion of 6 open water dives in simulated to actual incident response
Students are required to successfully complete the following skills:
Scene size-up, team briefing, deploying the team, inflate/deflate dry suit, disconnect/connect dry suit hose underwater, recover from inverted position, clear a partially flooded full face mask, remove and replace full face mask, remove full face mask and utilize redundant air source to ascend, locate an object, successfully rig a lift bag and lift the object to the surface while maintaining evidence continuity, debrief and record each dive with team log and diver log, and perform a post diver evaluation both medical and psychological