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Please join us in Panama City, Florida this Summer for an incredible training series! This is a seven-class series of courses allowing each graduate to become a Public Safety Scuba Instructor, Dive Rescue I Trainer, and Dry Suit Diving Trainer for their agency. Other prerequisite classes are offered at the beginning of the series to ensure that all Trainer class … Read More

Critical Skills Diver training is a two-day class focused on improving diver competence and confidence through proper response repetition in increasingly challenging underwater events. Carefully controlled and moderated challenges in a swimming pool setting deliver many iterations to each diver candidate. Critical Skills Diver training is considered so crucial, that even though it is a Dive Rescue II class, Dive … Read More

Please join the Wichita Fire Department and Dive Rescue International for a two-class repair technician series on May 7 -8, 2021 in Wichita, Kansas. ***Classes can be taken individually*** Interspiro Technician training certifies students for 5-years so they can perform field maintenance, annual service, and safety function testing to applicable equipment. Certification is authorized by Interspiro for work on Divator … Read More

Join us in Warsaw, IN this August for a traning series that includes: Dry Suit Diving, Dive Rescue 1, Boat Based Operations, Critical Skills Diver, and Current Diving. Class can be taken in sequence or individually. These credientials convey the core principles and skills for a fully operational dive rescue team. Dry Suit Diving training prepares the divers to use … Read More

Join us for Ice Diving Operations in Okoboji, IA on March 5-7, 2021! Ice Diving Operations is Dive Rescue International’s renowned three day (24 hour) training program for certified divers and surface support personnel. Participants will be able to plan and execute an emergency ice diving operation; select, evaluate and perform field maintenance on ice diving equipment; and dive safely … Read More

Please join us in Ainsworth, Nebraska on June 4-6, 2021 for a Swiftwater Rescue 1 Training course. Swiftwater Rescue I is Dive Rescue International’s renowned three day (24 hour) training program. Swiftwater rescue operations are inherently dangerous and with the complications of fast current, low-head dams, and/or hidden debris they can become deadly. Prepare for these special hazards by learning how … Read More

Join Hastings Fire Department & EMS on February 18-20, 2021 for an Ice Rescue Trainer course. Ice Rescue Trainer is Dive Rescue International’s renowned three-day training program for first responders. The Ice Rescue Trainer program prepares first responders from all public safety disciplines on how to respond to and carry out surface ice rescues. This class introduces students to the … Read More

Join us for Ice Diving Operations in Sioux City, IA on February 3-5, 2021! Ice Diving Operations is Dive Rescue International’s renowned three day (24 hour) training program for certified divers and surface support personnel. Participants will be able to plan and execute an emergency ice diving operation; select, evaluate and perform field maintenance on ice diving equipment; and dive … Read More

Please join Rochester Police Department and Instructor Mark Brooks on February 5, 2021 for a remote-learning Visual Cylinder Inspection class via Zoom. This certification program trains and prepares personnel to complete specialized SCUBA and SCBA cylinder inspections, the importance of which is sometimes overlooked or ignored. Alternatively, Public safety departments commonly use outside companies to provide SCUBA and SCBA cylinder … Read More