The Diver Medic

With 31 years working in the fields of diving education, diving rescue and fatality investigation, 27 years in the public safety dive/water rescue community, 20 years in aquatic fatality investigations and 14 years working as a medicolegal death investigator for Dutchess County Medical Examiner office, Andrea works with TeamLGS teaching fire, law enforcement, EMS, death investigators, prosecutors, and military personnel. She is a noted innovator in aquatic death investigation. Andrea is the NYS Department of Criminal Justice Services Aquatic Death Investigation Instructor, has more than 100 publications, is an aquatic consultant for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, has presented at more than 175 forensic, diving and rescue conferences, has taught over 5,000 law enforcement/death investigators in her Aquatic Death and Homicidal Drowning Investigation program series, and serves as a body-found-in-water expert witness. Andrea has received national and international awards such as the DAN-Rolex Diver of the Year and Beneath the Sea Diver of the Year.