Water Rescue Officer Development

Dive Rescue International's Water Rescue Officer Development training is designed to build student's skill path to water incident command. Topics covered include:

  • Utilizing incident management system for water rescue
  • Performing incident assessment at a simulated emergency situation
  • Creating written incident objectives for a water emergency event
  • Listing strategic and tactical considerations for various emergency water situations
  • Determining management position requirements for water rescue events
  • Demonstrating the expansion and contraction of Incident Management System to meet the needs of the incident
  • Discussing tactics for large and small-scale events
  • Demonstrating resource deployment, personnel accountability, logistics management, and implementation of tactics at a simulated rescue event
  • Performing risk management activities

This course takes incident command principles and applies them to large and small-scale water rescue scenes. Students participate in incident command scenarios and make risk management decisions. Through practice during scenario execution and discussion students prepare for incidents of various magnitudes where the local NIMS-based ICS may transition to Unified Command.

Duration - 3 days (24 hours)

Recommended for - Emergency services personnel responding to diving and surface incidents

Prerequisites - Member of a public safety agency and at least 18 years old

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Trainer Programs

  • Dive Rescue I Trainer
  • Dry Suit Diving Trainer
  • Ice Rescue Trainer
  • Public Safety Scuba Instructor
  • Swiftwater Rescue Trainer
Note: All trainer programs require an appliction. Click on the link below to for a downloadable application.

Dry Suit Trainer
Ice Rescue Trainer
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(800) 248-3483

Diving Programs
  • Boat-Based Operations
  • Current Diving
  • Dive Rescue I
  • Dive Rescue II
  • Dry Suit Diving
  • Evidence Recovery Operations
  • Haz-Mat Diving
  • Interspiro Technician
     
  • Ice Diving Operations
  • Light Salvage and Recovery
  • Public Safety Diver Survival Program
  • Special Marine Operations (Hull Search)
  • Surface-Supplied Air
  • Underwater Crime Scene Technician
  • Underwater Crime Scene Technician II
Non-Diving Programs
  • Floods and Moving Water
  • Ice Rescue
  • Med Dive
  • Swiftwater Rescue
  • Swiftwater Rescue II
  • Underwater Investigator
  • Visual Cylinder Inspection
  • Water Operations Officer Development

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received 3 weeks prior to class start date receive a full refund. Cancellations received 8-21 days prior to class start date receive a 50% refund. Cancellations received 0-7 days prior to class start date do not receive a refund.

Research of Past Records

Instructors or students requesting record information prior to 1997 are assessed a $25.00 research fee.
The fee for re-issue of certificates or cards is $10.00.