S. C. Public Safety Divers Int'l

These courses are designed for Active/Retired Public Safety Personnel
and Private Investigators unless otherwise noted.

PSD Open Water
This course will teach participant the skills and knowledge required to be a safe, comfortable psd open water diver and Line-Tender.

PSD Advanced Open Water
This course is designed to build on your open water skills and incorporate more advanced scuba techniques such as Wreck Diving, Deep Diving, Night Diving, Buoyancy Control, Diver Rescue Techniques, and much more.

Diving in Contaminated Waters
The purpose of this course is to provide general guidance and basic procedures for diving in contaminated water.

Diver Medic
The Dive Team Medic is an individual who provides initial/pre-hospital care to dive team members who become ill or injured in the dive setting.

PSD Night Diver/Compass/Mapping
This course is designed to teach the techniques of Night Diving, Compass Navigation and Mapping of Crime Scenes.

Search and Recovery
Instruction will cover techniques, principals and application of Search and Recovery methods, including planning techniques, organization procedures, problems and hazards of Search and Recovery.

Underwater Criminal Investigation
Instruction will cover techniques, principals and application of Underwater Criminal Investigation methods, including planning techniques, organization procedures, problems and hazards of Underwater Crime Investigation.

Forensic Diving
The course is designed to "Enhance" the knowledge and skills of the Underwater Crime Investigator and focuses more on the "Forensics" (i.e. Cause of Death, Recovery of Skeletal Remains, etc.). The course was originally developed for Medical Examiners and Local Corners, to help them with a more definitive Cause of Death (COD) in water related accidents/crimes but we have extended the training to Public Safety Divers.

*ORDNANCE AND HARBOR SECURITY SEARCHING (OHSS)
MUST BE CURRENT/RETIRED PUBLIC SAFETY: Instruction will cover techniques, principals and application of Ordnance and Harbor Security Searching methods, including planning techniques, organization procedures, problems and hazards of Ordnance and Harbor Security Searching. **THIS COURSE DOES NOT IMPLY OR TEACH HOW TO REMOVE/DIFUSE LIMPETS/BOMBS. Course agenda click HERE

*MARITIME INTERCEPTION OPERATIONS (MIO)
MUST BE CURRENT/RETIRED PUBLIC SAFETY: MARITIME INTERCEPTION OPERATIONS, provides tactics, techniques*, and procedures to conduct unilateral or joint MIO operations.

*Marine Port Security
MUST BE CURRENT/RETIRED PUBLIC SAFETY: The purpose of these courses are to properly Educate, Prepare and Train the Marine Port Security Officer/Diver in the aspects/hazards of Marine Port Security. The Marine Port Security Program consists of several courses, below are the Core Courses;
1. MARITIME INTERCEPTION
2. U/W EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE
3. ORDNANCE AND HARBOR SECURITY SEARCHING

And Many More Programs!

*NOTE: for PSD Only Courses, contact SDPSDI for waiver exception(s)