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PADI Advanced Search and Recovery Divers Course
Instructional
Design: Harvey
Rogers and Cara Lillis-James
Mermaids
Dive
Career
Development
Center
Pattaya
,
Thailand
, are
always trying to innovate and bring in new and exciting courses. The PADI
Advanced Search and Recovery diver course is a distinctive specialty created by
Harvey Rogers. The Advanced S&R Diver course is designed to be the next step
after the PADI search and recovery specialty and to help the student diver
develop further skills and knowledge for safe search and recovery diving.
Prerequisites:
To
qualify for the PADI Advanced Search and Recovery Diver course, a diver must:
The
course consists of (3 days):
- Academics
- & 3
confined water dives (1 day).
- 4
open water dives (2 days). (6 - 15 meters of depth).
Course
Overview
The
purpose of the PADI Advanced Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is to
expand divers skills and knowledge in S&R planning, organization,
procedures, techniques, problems and hazards. It will introduce many fun aspects
of search and recovery diving also. The Advanced Search and Recovery Diver
Specialty course is intended to serve as a safe and supervised continuation to
the PADI Search and Recovery
Specialty Course. Dive training should emphasize fun and safety. The goals
of PADI Advanced Search and Recovery Diver training are:
- To
develop the dive student’s practical knowledge of search and recovery diving.
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To enable the student to plan,
organize, and make search and recovery dives in different and tough
environments.
The
Advanced Search and Recovery Diver course covers the techniques and application
of a variety of search and recovery methods. Such as:
- The
planning, organization, procedures, techniques, problems, and hazards of
search and recovery diving are covered in depth and expanded upon from the
first level.
- Black
water diving (simulated with blacked out masks) and underwater navigation
techniques.
-
Proper techniques and safety
considerations for object location, including the use of various search
patterns, lines and reels.
- Proper
techniques and safety considerations for recovery of objects using several
lifting devices.
The
Advanced Search and Recovery diver will deal with:
- Sharp
objects and debris (protection).
- Entanglement.
- Poor
Visibility.
- Currents.
- Falling
objects.
- Boat
traffic.
- Rigging
and Lifting systems.
Underwater
Searches mastered:
- Dive
1 Pendulum Search.
- Dive
2 Semicircular search.
- Dive
3 Jackstay search.
- Dive
4 Students choice of search appropriate to the object to be found and the
conditions.
Search
patterns using ropes: The circular, semicircular, jackstay patterns and arc are
the types of searches used in Advanced Search and Recovery. Rope signals –
Search patterns may require the use of diver-to-diver rope signals for effective
communication. Rope signals are taught during dive planning. You shall be taught
effective rope communications from diver-to-diver, tender-to-diver and
diver-to-tender.
Some
of the skills and tasks that you will be required to perform on the course to
make the grade and pass:
- Breathing
underwater with a blacked-out mask.
-
Tie 3 knots underwater wearing a blacked out mask.
- Follow
a 5m line underwater wearing a blacked out mask.
- Search
for and find a small object in an area approximately 10 meters / 30 feet by
10 meters / 30 feet or other dimensions for the same area of search using a
pendulum search pattern.
- Demonstrate
Blacked out mask removal.
- Follow
a line laid out in a square, or rectangle, not less than
20 meters in length, maintaining contact with the line at all times, wearing
a blacked out divers mask.
- Rigging
an object to a lift bag while wearing a blacked out mask.
- Demonstrate
how to safely bring to the surface an object not more than 25 pounds/11
kilograms negatively buoyant using an appropriate lifting device.
Wearing a regular
mask.
- Demonstrate
the jackstay search for a submerged object.
- Demonstrate
how to use an appropriate lifting device to safely rig an object approx
11kg/25 pounds – 25kg-50 pounds wearing a blacked out mask, then swap the
blacked out mask to a normal mask to bring to the surface an object found
with the jackstay search method.
- Demonstrate
the pendulum search for a submerged object in an area approximately 20 meters
/ 60 feet by 20 meters / 60 feet or other dimensions for the same area of
search.
- Demonstrate
how to use an appropriate lifting device to safely rig and bring to the
surface an object weighing not less than 25 kg found using the pendulum
search pattern, and remove from the water.
- Demonstrate
the semi-circular search for a submerged object in an area approximately 20 meters
/ 60 feet by 40 meters / 120 feet other dimensions for the same area of
search.
- Demonstrate
how to use an appropriate lifting device to safely rig and bring to the
surface an object (approximately
30 kilograms/66 pounds to 50 kilograms/110 pounds) with a lift bag, or more
than one lift bag) found using the
semi-circular search pattern.
- Organize,
plan and conduct a search and recovery dive with a dive buddy.
The above is an overview of the Advanced Search and
Recovery program offered by Mermaids Dive Center. There are many other skills to
learn and objectives to reach. If you are interested in this new and exciting
program then please do contact me...
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