For Instructors, Instructor Candidates, Divemasters, PSD Team Trainers, and anyone who wants to train themselves.
So much has been removed from contemporary diving education today that we are too rarely creating ‘diver-divers’; avid divers, divers who can’t wait until the next time they confidently get in the water to have that next exciting experience! Learn simple tricks that will keep students coming back for more from Hendrick & Zaferes who have together worked with many thousands of divers over a combined 75 years of teaching. Put the excitement and challenge back into diving and combine that with strong, independent diving skills and we will again have a population of divers who put diving as a priority – not just people with a c-card who do a few dives while on a cruise. This workshop will teach instructors, store owners, and PSD team trainers how to stand out and offer the most sought-after training in their area, and will teach divers what they can do to further develop their dive skills so that they will take their enjoyment and love of diving to a new level.
Class limit of 20 people
Speaker Bios:
Andrea Zaferes
With 28 years teaching thousands of diver/water rescue/recovery personnel worldwide, Andrea Zaferes is VP of Lifeguard Systems, noted author, a medicolegal death investigator for Dutchess County Medical Examiner’s Office, a NAUI/ACUC Course Director, PADI Master Instructor, water rescue editor for Fire Engineering Magazine, and an internationally recognized public speaker presenting in more than 40 forensic and 100 rescue/dive conferences. Andrea is the Aquatic Death Investigation Instructor for the New York State DCJS. She has received such awards as the DAN-Rolex Diver of the Year, was a Women Diver Hall of Fame charter inductee, and was the first woman to receive the Beneath the Sea Diver of the Year Award. Andrea with Walt “Butch” Hendrick, co-founded nonprofit RIPTIDE to assist law enforcement with homicidal drowning and aquatic-death investigations, developed ground-breaking programs such as Diver Oxygen Administration and the Field Neurological Evaluation in 1988, authored Public Safety Diving and Ice Diving Operations, teach more than 20 public safety and recreational programs, and provide probono aquatic assistance for the National Center for Missing Children. She began as a scientific diver with the American Museum of Natural History and Univ. of Michigan, was a NYS EMT for 18 years, and has been seen on such programs as 48-hours, the Dr. Phil show, and the Discovery Channel. Andrea is one of the leading trainers in the aquatic rescue, recovery, and investigation communities today.
Butch Hendrick
Butch Hendrick has trained thousands of divers and water rescuers for over 50 years in over 15 countries, and is a major innovator, equipment designer, standard-setter, and contributor to the dive and water rescue/recovery communities. Butch began his dive career in the 1960’s in his family’s watersport resort in Puerto Rico, where he started the main San Juan offshore rescue team and where his family installed and ran the only civilian hyperbaric chamber in the Caribbean. Creator of the rescue throw rope bag, the diver do-si-do and in-water ventilation procedures, thin ice dive SAR, and much much more. Butch received the first DAN Rolex Diver of the Year Award for contributions to diving safety, and received the International Leonard Greenstone Award, the Boston Sea Rover Silver Bowl, the Beneath the Sea Diver of the Year, several NAUI outstanding contributions to diving awards, and more. He has hundreds of published articles, plus several videos and books, including Public Safety Diving, Ice Diving Operations, Homicidal Drowning Investigation, and Surface Ice Rescue. With RIPTIDE performs Aquatic Death Investigations, and volunteers as a consultant for National Center for Missing and Exploited children.
Special Offer: $60 includes handouts and wall certificate – or send four from the same dive shop for $50 each