THE SCUBA SHACK
	The Scuba Shack’s Public Safety Diver Programs  The Scuba Shack introduced its line of public safety diver programs as a bridge between the elite recreational and the firefighter/law enforcement officer trained in diving.  The modular program was created by Advanced Training Programs in the early eighties and is now being offered to surrounding communities as a means of support for their water rescue teams     Seminar titles and classes include:  A.   The Water Rescue Team a.      The need for a water rescue team b.      How water rescue teams function in the community c.      How to finance a team d.      Training, and equipment standards for a functional team   B.   A Drowning Community a.      Understanding the drowning statistics b.      Creating a program for public awareness c.      Identifying problem areas and making them safer   C.   Water Rescue team seminars: a.      Diving Medicine (2 nights 8 hrs)                                                                i.      The physics of diving                                                              ii.      The physiology of diving                                                             iii.      Bubble dynamics                                                            iv.      Rapid field neurological exams                                                              v.      Field treatment for compressed Gas injuries b.      Redundant air systems                                                                i.      How safe is the buddy system                                                              ii.      The rescue diver on the surface fact or fiction.                                                             iii.      Trouble shooting dive operations                                                            iv.      Creating a SAFE OPERATIONAL PLAN c.      Diver communications and equipment                                                                i.      Review of Hand Signals                                                              ii.      Rope signals and Dry land practice for tender and diver                                                             iii.      Touch point communication and dry land searches                                                            iv.      Hard wired communication systems including surface supplied air                                                              v.      Wireless communication systems                                                            vi.      Scene communication systems and scene structure d.      Diver entrapment seminar                                                                i.      Equipment and techniques for the self sufficient diver                                                              ii.      Dry land entrapment and release                                                             iii.      Dry land BC removal and release                                                            iv.      Blind fold buddy assist release                                                              v.      Blind fold buddy assist through obstacle course and release                                                            vi.      All the above should be repeated in a controlled pool setting   D.   Basic and Advanced Classes a.      Basic Classes can be done in any of our PADI Open Water Diver Programs, or we can make arrangements for private or team programs b.      Advanced Diving Classes can be done in any of our PADI Advanced Diver Programs or c.      Recreational Rescue Diver Program d.      Nitrox Diver Program e.      Oxygen Provider f.       Specialty diver program                                                                i.      Deep Diver                                                              ii.      Search and Salvage Diver                                                             iii.      Limited Visibility Diver                                                            iv.      Wreck Diver                                                              v.      Equipment Techniques program                                                            vi.      Peak performance buoyancy program                                                           vii.      Ice Diver                                                         viii.      Cave Diver I and II                                                            ix.      Tecktrox diver   The Scuba Shack 218 5th St. Frederick, Colorado 80503 Ph (303) 833-3647