The afternoon workshop will consist of four lecture modules, each about 30-45 minutes, self-evaluation and discussion will be included with each module. The modules will address topics such as:
· Medications and diving; Viagra, Sudafed
· Pulmonary oxygen toxicity
· Convulsing underwater
· Discussion of the new guidelines for rescue of underwater seizure
Both DAN workshops are open door, no registration required. Come for one topic or for the entire workshop.
The morning workshop will consist of four lecture modules, each about 30-45 minutes, self-evaluation and discussion will be included with each module. The modules will address topics such as:
· What does conservative diving mean?
· Nitrox versus Aid
· Official UHMS Guidelines
· Deep stops and safety stops
· Dive profiles
Both DAN workshops are open door, no registration required. Come for one topic or for the entire workshop.
Do you want to shoot better video with your system? Are you interested in learning secret shooting techniques to get the best out of your system? Do you want to be entertained and laugh while you learn? Then sign up now for this workshop with Annie Crawley! Whether you are shooting GoPro, SeaLife, DSLR Cameras or a have a dedicated video system, this workshop is for you! In three hours, producer and inspirational speaker, Annie Crawley, will walk you through the ten shots you need for every story, video lighting techniques, five things everyone needs to avoid doing when in the field, plus give you editing techniques that you can use with any editing software. With the proliferation of video, she will help you shoot the best video for what ever system you choose. By the end of the workshop, Annie guarantees the class will shoot and create a video that will be posted to YouTube.
Class will be limited to 24 people
Please preregister.
It is impossible to eliminate risk for public safety dive teams. It is a dangerous job no matter how you look at it. However, new technology and new information can help you minimize your risk and help keep you and your team safer. This day long program covers some of the most timely topics in public safety diving. Each one is designed to help you be safer in the water. This seminar will address the questions of how the new proposed will standard affect you and how you can provide input on the standard to the committees before they are finalized.
Faith Ortins: DUI- NFPA Contaminated Water Diving Standards
A member of NFPA Technical Rescue Sub-Committee on Contaminated Water Diving Equipment: NFPA 1953: The final version of new contaminated water equipment standard and what it means to the dive team.
Buck Buchanan: ERDI- Standardizing Public Safety Training
Jeff Snyder: Seavision Marine Services – Role of Technology in Minimizing Your Risk
Steve Brown/Cambridge Fire Department Dive Team– Writing Successful Grants
Sgt Mike Berry, Virginia State Police diver and President of Underwater Criminal Investigators – Crime Scene Preservation
LUNCH BREAK: 12:30-1PM. Lunch will be provided.
SPEAKER BIOS:
Steve Brown – Cambridge Fire Department
Mr. Jeff Snyder is the President of SeaVision Underwater Solutions, Inc. (SeaVision). He carries over 13 years of experience in diving and remote underwater survey operations. A former U.S. Navy Special Operations Officer, Mr. Snyder possesses an M.S. in Geosystems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Geology from Duke University. He is certified as a Hydrographer by the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping. He currently carries a USCG Merchant Mariner License as Master 100 Ton (Inland)/Mate 200 Ton (Near Coastal), and he had been previously certified as a commercial surface-supplied air diver through the ADC. In his work, Mr. Snyder frequently uses tools and techniques that can be easily tailored to support public safety search and recovery efforts.
Faith Ortins is the Vice President in charge of sales for Diving Unlimited International. She has been working for DUI for 15 years and developed their public safety program 6 years ago. Her scientific and technical diving and volunteer public safety diving experience gives her a unique perspective on the issue of contaminated water diving and its unique challenges. She is currently working with NOAA on the development a complete contaminated water diving system. She is also a member of the working group for NFPA 1953 which will issue standards for contaminated water diving equipment sometime in 2013/2014.
Guaranteed to make you safer and more effective. Learn how to reduce department liability while saving money.
This indoor workshop combines lectures and hands-on drills. It is an intense, dynamic, state-of-the-art program by Zaferes who has worked in the PSD field for 24 years.
This is like no other PSD Workshop
The following are examples of the topics we will address during this workshop in addition to answering your questions and concerns:
Includes educational handout with CD
What are the first steps to take when editing an underwater photo so it will look better? In this workshop you will discover how to recognize which photos are the best to edit, and then what to use in Photoshop Elements (cost around $85 for PS Elements software so great value!) or in Photoshop CS to give more life, or pop, to your photos without getting overwhelmed with the software. This will include learning to work with levels, hue/saturation, cropping, stamp/healing brush, sharpening, removing debris in the water and so on that can make good photos look fabulous. If wanted, please bring two to four untouched digital photos on a cd, dvd, or memory stick to look at and possibly use during this workshop.
Robyn Bright has a master’s degree in animal behavior and has been published in pet industry magazines and advertisements. She has studied with DeCordova Museum and has been mentored by photographers for National Geographic and more. Robyn has been teaching photography and running workshops for almost ten years. She has taken pictures all over the world including Australia, Europe, China and Africa, and underwater photos in the Galapagos, Bonaire, Indonesia, New England, Honduras, the Red Sea and Tobago. She started scuba diving in 1986.
Compared to taking pictures on land, capturing photographs while scuba diving is extremely hard to do, especially when you consider that you are moving, the critters are usually moving, you can’t use a tripod and you will need to watch your air! Yet the best photos, whether taken on the land or underwater, have two important things in common, excellent composition and great lighting. In this workshop you will discover how to compose a photo well through the use of different rules and tips, plus learn techniques on how to use lighting from strobes, the environment or both to make your photos really pop. This workshop will also go over exposure and how it can be interpreted, controlled and changed, and some suggestions and tricks on how to capture underwater critters better by understanding behavior, positioning and ways to assess an area will be discussed.
Robyn Bright has a master’s degree in animal behavior and has been published in pet industry magazines and advertisements. She has studied with DeCordova Museum and has been mentored by photographers for National Geographic and more. Robyn has been teaching photography and running workshops for almost ten years. She has taken pictures all over the world including Australia, Europe, China and Africa, and underwater photos in the Galapagos, Bonaire, Indonesia, New England, Honduras, the Red Sea and Tobago. She started scuba diving in 1986.
Did you ever wonder how the top professionals capture those amazing underwater pictures?
Jill Heinerth will debunk the mysteries of working with digital cameras of all types. She will cover the fundamentals of equipment choice, exposure control, using strobes, advanced lighting techniques and working in extreme environments. Whether you shoot stills on a compact camera, video using an SLR or images on a GoPro camera, you’ll benefit from learning the essentials that make great pictures on any system.
Jill will be giving a copy of her book, Digital Underwater Photography, to all workshop participants. In this easy to understand guide, Jill Heinerth shares her secrets, techniques, and photo-expedition experiences, to help you improve your underwater digital photography. An acclaimed photographer and film maker, Jill takes you through the practices that she, and many other working pros employ to produce award-winning results. Generously illustrated with Jill’s own full color images, this guidebook is a valuable addition to every scuba diver’s library.
Register for: Learn to Shoot Like a Pro
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Conference will be in classroom setting, therefore, seating is limited. Please register early.
Registration begins at 7:30 am; workshop begins at 8:00 am and concludes at 5:00 pm.
To register: Please mail registration form along with check or M.O. to:
180 Steel Bridge Loop 4A, Hickory, NC 28601
Standard Tuition: $ 175.00 U.S.
Registration must be submitted no later than- March 1st, 2012
Specialty Speaker: Mack S. House Jr. CSIDT- International;
Active Member of the International Crime Scene Investigators Association
Published Author and internationally recognized expert in Underwater Forensics and Crime Scene Investigation.
Senior Instructor: Douglas Bannister CSIDT-International
Specialty Speaker and Senior Diving Instructor.
http://www.feinc.net/ForensicExperts/MH/ – http://www.feinc.net/ForensicExperts/ – https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/CSIDT1/
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Overview and Synopsis:
“This communication will serve as official notice that CJS will accept the listed presentation as being available to a NC criminal justice officer participating in the NC Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission Law Enforcement Officer Certificate Program, either at the intermediate or advanced level”. Mark Dearry, Training System Manager/CJS
It is understood that one of the most basic forms of matter are the gases that make up our atmosphere. Much is to be learned about the gases we breathe and the effects they have under certain circumstances. It is also understood that the diver, recreational or commercial, understand these properties as well as the behavior of these gases under hyperbaric conditions. This workshop is a review of these principles and affords further understanding as to the necessity of safe diving practices. Many of the gas laws reviewed, or as part of a curriculum in recreational diving, are not adequate enough to give the diver the education and understanding necessary to dive as safe as possible. This has become quite prevalent in studying mortality rates among recreational divers. The focal point of this workshop is to review typical gas laws associated in recreational diving and extend this knowledge base beyond that level. The Anatomy and Physiology and the Pathophysiological are included in order to provide clarity of each gas law and the effects of each. The subject matter extends beyond the gas laws to include the following:
Morning workshop: 4 hours given in 55 minute increments.
Afternoon workshop: 4 hours given in 55 minute increments.
Registration includes:
Certificate of Completion
Information Package with required forms:
Completed Learner directed documentation form; for your departmental records
Completed Provider directed documentation form; for your departmental records
Completed Synopsis outline and individual time frame; for your departmental records
Speaker evaluation and feedback form; return to Event Coordinator
Certification information form for confirmation; return to Event Coordinator
Event Name: Boston Sea Rovers Workshop– Diver Physics/ Crime Scene Investigation
Training Conducted by: Crime Scene Investigations Diver Technologists International
Event Type: Training
Date: 2012
CEUs: 8
Event Fee: $175.00 U.S.
Training Event? Yes
Preceptor ship Event? No
NOTICE: Certificates of completion will be mailed to individuals or individual departments within ten working days.
Registration:
Easy registration by copying the following information and pasting in reply mail:
Name:
Department:
Address:
BSRW-022012
Phone number:
Name to appear on Certificate:
Email address:
Please make checks payable to: Mack S. House Jr.
Please email registration information to: csidt1@gmail.com
Please mail registration form along with Tuition, check or M.O. to: 180 Steel Bridge Loop 4A, Hickory, NC 28601
Registration and payment must be received by: March 1st, 2012
MORNING PROGRAM:
Begins at 9:00am.
The morning program will consist of 20 minute lecture/instructional modules, each followed by 10 minute break-out sessions including case studies, practical application of the knowledge, discussion and self-evaluation.
AFTERNOON PROGRAM:
1:30-6:00pm
DAN will offer two certification courses in the afternoon.
Students who participate in the afternoon program will have the option to earn both certifications.
*** Pre-requisites (for afternoon program only): Students must have a current/up-to-date, full CPR certification and must complete online pre-course modules prior to attending the course.
Download course description and application PDF.
Sherwood SR2: 8:00 am – 11:30 am Sherwood Gemini: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Sherwood Brut/Magnum, 9000 Series: 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm Due to limited space, it is necessary to reserve your spot in advance by emailing Norman Castillo at Cramer Decker Industries. Reservations will be on a first come, first serve basis. Space will be very limited, so each dive store will be allowed 1 staff member per seminar. If you do not attend the seminar, your CDI Account will be billed for $25.
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Getting a good exposure is the key to taking better images. In this workshop, photojournalist Ethan Gordon, will go over the finer details on obtaining the perfect exposure with your digital camera underwater. Topics covered will include: understanding histograms, getting the perfect ambient light exposure, balancing strobe with ambient light, and off-camera lighting. Ethan will analyze in detail several of his own images to explain the process of ‘getting the perfect exposure.’ Then Ethan will analyze one image volunteered by each participant to provide everyone with useful tips that will help him or her become better underwater photographers. There’s nothing like having your own images analyzed by a pro.
This workshop will benefit any digital underwater photographer, from beginner to intermediate, point and shoots to DSLRs.
Please submit your image by email prior to the clinic if possible. Otherwise, bring your image on a USB drive to the workshop. It is best to bring the original image file, prior to any adjustments you may have made. However, if you’d like to bring an adjusted file in addition, that would be OK. It’s not necessary to volunteer an image for analysis if you don’t feel like it. You can benefit by watching others’ images be analyzed.
This workshop will be limited to a maximum of 20 people, so reserve your space today.
Learn the basics from the best! Learn how to avoid costly and frustrating mistakes, significantly shorten the learning curve, pick up secrets that the pros use on every shoot and understand the capabilities of your equipment. This introduction to underwater photography will prove invaluable; the acquired skills will be useful every time you bring your camera underwater.
Presented by world record holder, Dave Hochman, this seminar starts with a discussion of freediving physiology, techniques, safety and equipment. The second part of the seminar will review the latest in spearfishing equipment, and will cover all of the pro and cons of spearguns, floats, reels, stringers etc. Customizing equipment and local techniques will also be discussed. This is a must for anyone interested in freediving or spearfishing.
Everyone dreams of finding shipwrecks. Starting with the basics, then moving through professional techniques, this seminar will cover search planning, search patterns, echosounders, sonars, magnetometers, metal detectors, and underwater tracking and target identification.
Don’t miss Member Forum 2014! All attendees will receive a detailed introduction to the revised Open Water Diver course which includes a look at new skills and teaching tools. Learn how the new Discover Scuba Diving Participant Guide can make your job easier by turning participants into student divers. The popular PADI Standards quiz returns for 2014 and features valuable new risk management scenarios. Get a preview of the new PADI marketing campaigns designed to acquire new divers and motivate current certified divers to continue diver training.
EVERY nitrox cylinder needs to be cleaned for oxygen service. This is not a difficult procedure, although it does require diligent application of prescribed procedures and close attention to safety precautions. This course is in compliance with cleaning requirements of the Compressed Gas Association, U.S. government agencies & manufacturers’ policies.
Restricted to current PSI Visual Cylinder Inspectors.
Provides a broad overview of valve types, valve repair and valve care. It was developed in close association with the valve manufacturers. Students receive a Certificate of Completion.
Class will be limited to 18 people
Exclusive workshop for personnel previously trained as PSI Visual Cylinder Inspectors. This course, recommended for those whose last formal VCI training was 3 or more years ago, meets OSHA and DOT update training requirements.
Attendees MUST bring copy of their PSI certificate showing their PSI Inspector Number.
Class will be limited to 18 people
This course in visual inspection of SCUBA and SCBA cylinders prepares the graduate to professionally and thoroughly inspect breathing air cylinders. PSI training is recognized by US courts as meeting the definition of someone who has been trained. Completion satisfies the OSHA requirement for hazardous material (HAZMAT) training for all employees who fill, use or otherwise handle high pressure gas cylinders.
Class will be limited to 27 people
It is impossible to eliminate risk for public safety dive teams. It is a dangerous job no matter how you look at it. However, new technology and new information can help you minimize your risk and help keep you and your team safer. This day long program covers some of the most timely topics in public safety diving. Each one is designed to help you be safer in the water.
Supplementing Public Safety Diving Efforts with Remote Survey Technologies
Jeff Snyder will discuss additional methods for using a full range of technology to support your dive team operations.
Medical and Physical Fitness Standards for Public Safety Dive Teams
Medical and physical complications are the number one contributing factor to public safety diver fatalities. Tom Greenhalgh is a recognized expert in this field and a long time PS diver from Massachusetts. He is working with the Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society to develop a medical standard for public safety divers to go along with the physical fitness standard recently implemented by NFPA.
Developing Standards for Contaminated Water Diving
Faith Ortins will report on the efforts by various agencies, including the NFPA, to develop equipment standards for contaminated water diving. She will also discuss the realistic limitations of these standards and chemical testing. Practices you can implement immediately to improve your safety will be presented as well.
Communications for Public Safety Dive Teams
The use of full face masks and communications is a proven tool to increase your effectiveness and safety in the water. John Hott, from OTS, will discuss how to get the most out of your communications and full face equipment. He will also demonstrate how these valuable tools can be used to improve your safety and mitigate risk in contaminated water in particular.
Using Technology to Aid Your Dive Team and Minimize Risk
Erick Estrada will discuss how ROV technology can increase the efficiency and safety of dive teams. He will demonstrate how to best utilize these emerging technologies as well as discuss their realistic limitations using real life examples.
Public Safety Diving Fatalities; Lessons Learned Since 1960
Since 1960, Public Safety Diving fatality statistics have allowed the PSD community to identify trends and implement safety measures. Consequently the number of PSD deaths has decreased in recent years but a new disturbing trend is emerging. Let’s learn from the past so we can work towards a safer future.
John is Director of Training as well as Military/Public Safety Diving Representative for Ocean Technology Systems. After serving with the US Army in Military Intelligence, John spent 14 years in Law Enforcement rising to the rank of Sergeant. With OTS, he is a member of the design team that developed the Guardian Full Face Mask and teaches the technician course for the GFFM. As Training Director, he has also certified over 1700 Interspiro Service Technicians and conducts familiarization training on full-face masks and underwater communications. John is an avid diver since 1975, certified Dive Master and carries certifications from YMCA, NAUI, TDI and PADI. John has been with OTS for over nine years.
Erick Estrada is the Sales Manager for VideoRay LLC, the leading micro ROV manufacturer in the world. Mr. Estrada has more than 9 years of experience in Search and Recovery and supporting these activities. He has helped organizations build up their Search and Recovery locker with different underwater tools to help out local and state law enforcement agencies. Clients include NYPD, Port of Long Beach, U.S. Coast Guard, and several Sheriff Departments.
Faith Ortins is the Vice President in charge of sales for Diving Unlimited International. She has been working for DUI for 14 years and developed their public safety program 5 years ago. Her scientific and technical diving and volunteer public safety diving experience gives her a unique perspective on the issue of contaminated water diving and its unique challenges.
Mr. Jeff Snyder is the President of SeaVision Underwater Solutions, Inc. (SeaVision). He carries over 13 years of experience in diving and remote underwater survey operations. A former U.S. Navy Special Operations Officer, Mr. Snyder possesses an M.S. in Geosystems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Geology from Duke University. He is certified as a Hydrographer by the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping. He currently carries a USCG Merchant Mariner License as Master 100 Ton (Inland)/Mate 200 Ton (Near Coastal), and he had been previously certified as a commercial surface-supplied air diver through the ADC. In his work, Mr. Snyder frequently uses tools and techniques that can be easily tailored to support public safety search and recovery efforts.
Tom Greenhalgh has been involved in the Public Safety field for 28 years. Currently he is employed as a Police Lt./Paramedic where he is the night shift supervisor. He formerly held the job of Firefighter/Paramedic for just under 2 years. He has been involved in Public Safety Diving for over 24 years as a team leader and trainer of a regional volunteer dive rescue team, a representative to the UHMS Public Safety Diving Standards review committee, a Corporate Trainer for Dive Rescue International, a Director for NPSS Inc, and as a past member of the International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists Board of Directors.
Tom is the Co-Director for the Greater Lowell CISM Team in Massachusetts, a trainer in multiple disciplines with the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, a Certified Trauma Responder with the Association of Traumatic Stress Specialists, a certified Field Traumatologist, a Compassion Fatigue Educator, and has been published in the CISM field. Tom is a Peer/Clinical Staff member of the On-Site Academy in Gardner, MA., a residential program for the treatment of critical incident and PTSD issues within the public safety and military populations. He also holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work, with an emphasis on public safety and military issues.
Blades Robinson began his public safety diving career in 1980 when he was hired by Indian River County (FL) Fire Rescue. He served on that department for 27 years serving many years as his agency’s aquatic rescue training officer. His affiliation with Dive Rescue International began in 1990 when he became a corporate trainer. He has been on the Dive Rescue International Board of Directors since 1993, and also serves as the executive director of the International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists since 2000.
Ethan Gordon and Berkley White present a seminar covering many topics on underwater digital photography – both equipment and technique. Key topics will include: Equipment selection from point and shoot to advanced digital SLR’s for both underwater and topside use. The pro’s photo case – tips and tricks for packing all the equipment you’ll need while staying within weight limitations, field troubleshooting techniques, properluggage , and important redundancy. Shooting techniques – strobe placement, working with shadows, focus, exposure, specific settings for macro and wide angle include; fast action, landscape, and split images, and close-up work.
Eddy current testing is designed to detect cracks in the neck area of aluminum cylinders. However, improper use of the testing devices is resulting in many false readings. This workshop provides & Visual Eddy manufacture-approved training in operation of the Visual Plus, Visual Plus 3 instruments.
Attendees MUST bring a copy of their PSI certificate showing their PSI Inspector Number.
It is recommended that attendees bring their own Visual Plus/Visual Eddy instruments so they may train on their own instruments
Class will be limited to 18 people