Besides the clear advantage of arriving at the scene before victims become recovery operations, this course offers several benefits. It provides solutions to many challenges rescuers may face, with targets specific to your region and surrounding environment, as well as the risks associated with working near or around bodies of water. This course also allows agencies to evaluate candidates and identify team members who can contribute effectively, as well as those who may have the desire but lack the aptitude to meet the requirements for joining a public safety dive team, whose primary responsibilities include recovery and the preservation of evidence. Are you concerned about spending large sums of money on dive training, only to discover that an individual cannot progress as a diver, struggles in limited visibility, has claustrophobia, or medical issues that prevent them from working at depth? Have you already invested in a lifetime credential for a diver, only for them to quit the team and take those scuba credentials to the Bahamas? Click the heading to learn more.

The Quick-Rescue DiverTM course is a trademarked and copyrighted program presented by Gulf State Diving Rescue and offered exclusively through the Public Safety Division of International Diving Educators Association (IDEA Est 1952). This course is the first, and currently the only, first responder-focused, professional-level fast rescue response scuba course backed by an internationally recognized scuba agency that offers a direct path to certification while also providing a Mission-Specific Distinctive SpecialtyTM. This course offers options for rescue response without full scuba certification under limited conditions and depth. The course combines the knowledge, training, practice, experience, and judgment of a 30+ year EMT paramedic/instructor, a multidiscipline top water rescue instructor with 20 years of experience, and a recreational and public safety SCUBA instructor with 26 years of experience. Additionally, the instructor has approximately 20 years of experience in motion picture aquatic stunt and safety work, as well as 15 years of flood disaster rescue team coordination and live event rescue standby coordination.