ERD Supervisor

The ERD Supervisor Course is to qualify the experienced emergency response divers to supervise emergency response diving teams. It also serves to develop leadership qualities as a prerequisite for ERDI Instructor.

Who this course is for:

• An ERD certified public safety dive team member looking to advance in a supervisory role
• An ERD certified public safety dive team member seeking skills and knowledge to assist an ERD Instructor
• A public safety diver looking to maintain team standardization and safety in compliance with OSHA and NFPA guidelines

Course prerequisites:

• Minimum age 18
• CPROX1st or equivalent
• Proof of 50 public safety logged dives as a member of a recognized public safety dive team
• Current medical examination for diving

What you can expect to learn:

• Skills necessary to assist ERD Instructors as appropriate
• OSHA regulations and NFPA guidelines
• Anatomy of public safety diving accidents
• Supervising and controlling divers in varying conditions
• Cooperation with interagency operations
• Interactions with bystanders, media, and victim’s families

What’s in it for you and your team?

• Professional experience to assist in the supervision of operational calls
• Standardization and safety and recovery procedures
• Developmental tools to help maintain team

ERD Supervisor minimum requirements:

• Watermanship skills:
  • 800 metre swim with mask, fins, snorkel non stop
  • 100 metre approach to a fully suited diver followed by 100 metre diver tow
  • 15 minute survival float; last two minutes hands must be out of water
  • 500 meter distance swim non stop
• Response diving skills:
  • Recover a drowning victim demonstrating correct procedures for handling evidence recovery
  • Recover a small object demonstrating correct search pattern and awareness for evidence handling
  • Act as incident commander in compliance of NFPA 1561 and:
    • Assess and secure scene
    • Brief and deploy team
    • Supervise the recovery of small object, large object, victim recovery, and primary diver trouble
    • Supervise decontamination procedures
    • Debrief the team
  • Demonstrate ability to safely approach and provide assistance to panicked diver on the surface
  • Demonstrate ability to successfully complete a rescue of an inert diver from a depth of no more than 6 metre/20 feet in black water, or simulated black water
• Leadership skills:
  • Assist with complete ERD I or ERD II course
  • Score minimum 80 percent ERD Supervisor written exam, with 100 percent remediation