Course Description

Incapacitated Diver on the Surface Workshop


How many dive leaders have been faced with this: “I’ve taken 3,000 people diving, I’ve had some difficulties before, but now this is IT – THIS IS THE REAL GIG. THE WORLD IS GOING BAD AND IT’S GOING BAD NOW AND I HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT BUT I DON’T KNOW HOW! I WAS NEVER TRAINED FOR THIS!”


This webinar is created by a man who has spent over 55 years of his life keeping people alive in the water, teaching people how to save each other whether they are ocean lifeguards, scuba instructors, sport divers, public safety divers, and water rescue personnel. You will hear how and why he created the do-si-do procedure to provide you with a better understanding of how to apply it. You will learn the most proven, effective techniques to manage panicked and incapacitated divers from the bottom to the surface to the boat/shore -  that will keep you and them safe. Too much of what is being taught today is not effective in the real world with truly unresponsive divers, waves, current, etc. Commonly taught techniques will be discussed as to why they should or should not be taught and used. This online course is a must for anyone who would consider assisting another diver, and is essential for dive leaders and rescue divers.



Lead Instructor

Butch Hendrick

As President & Founder of Lifeguard Systems, Butch has been teaching, developing rescue procedures and performing surface and subsurface water rescues for over 30 years in 15 countries. He and his family started and ran one of the first scuba resorts in the Caribbean in Puerto Rico. They were innovators, pioneers, and leaders in the sport diving industry. They installed and ran the only nonmilitary hyperbaric chamber in the Caribbean. Hendrick performed many rescues of divers and other people in the water, and he started the first diving rescue team in the area. Butch had his boat Captains license before he had his driver’s license. He went on to develop many of the procedures used and taught today such as the rescue do-si-do and in-water mouth to mouth for scuba accidents. He developed many Island safety emergency management plans and safety protocols, such as those used today by the Cayman Islands and Bonaire.In the 1970’s Butch established the training program and conducted the dive training for FDNY Rescue Companies dive teams, including, in 1991, the FDNY diver instructor training course. He has trained other noted teams such as FDNY Rescue Companies, U.S. Parks Dept., Washington DC FAA, South African Paramedics Dive Team, and hundreds of other fire, police, EMS, and military teams.Published over 300 times, Hendrick is a noted international public speaker and expert.Hendrick has been training public safety dive teams, sport divers, and rescue personnel for over 35 years in over 15 countries. He is a major innovator and contributor to the water rescue industry. He is one of the most important fathers of diver safety education, always striving for increased safety standards.President and founder of Lifeguard Systems, Inc., an international rescue and recovery training company. Lifeguard Systems is the oldest Public Safety Diving and Ice Rescue Training company with the same continuous owner and President in the United States.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Incapacitated Diver on the Surface Workshop

    • Butch Hendrick Incapsitated diver

    • Diver-to-Diver Rescue Skills - do-si-do

    • Do-Si-Do History and Function

    • Through my eyes Article

    • Stop Think Act

  • 2

    Exam

    • Examination

Reviews

5 star rating

A lost skill

Derek Moore

A thoroughly interesting course which states the obvious but which seems to have become a lost skill over the years.

A thoroughly interesting course which states the obvious but which seems to have become a lost skill over the years.

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