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PERT Self-Sufficiency Diver

• Duration: 2-3 Days
• Number of dives: Minimum 4
• Prerequistes:
  • 18 years old
  • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent)
  • Minimum 100 logged dives
• Cost: 13,300 THB including equipment rental and certification.
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• More Info: Professional Emergency Response Training Overview

The first rule of recreational diving – never dive alone – is also the rule in professional emergency response diving. In every situation there’s always another member of the team to assist. However, unlike in recreational diving, a rescue diver’s “buddy” may not be in the water. For that reason, emergency response divers must be “self sufficient” while submerged.

The PERT Self-Sufficiency Diver course is designed to train divers in the benefits, hazards, and proper procedures for diving without a buddy. Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may effectively perform self-sufficiency/solo diving skills, for self-reliance and self-rescue.

Course Syllabus

• Overview
  1. History of buddy diving.
  2. Pros and cons of buddy diving.
  3. Pros and cons of self-sufficiency diving.
  4. Pre-requisites and practicalities.
  5. Self-reliance.
  6. Self-rescue.
• When not to dive alone
  1. Overhead environments.
  2. Decompression and deep diving.
• Equipment
  1. Redundant air sources:
  2. Pony bottle
  3. Twin cylinders w/ isolation
  4. H-valve,
  5. Independent doubles.
  6. Regulators.
  7. Buoyancy compensators.
  8. Exposure suits.
  9. Dive Knives and other cutting tools.
  10. Surface marker buoys & floatation devices.
  11. Safety reels.
  12. U/W navigational tools.
  13. Current and ascent lines.
  14. Surface audible signalling devices.
  15. Dye markers, signal mirrors or flares.
  16. Emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs).
• Equipment configuration appropriate for solo diving (streamlining your gear).
• Planning and conducting a self-sufficiency dive
  1. Dive site selection and pre-dive considerations.
  2. Contingency planning.
  3. Equipment configuration
  4. Gas management.
  5. Avoiding entanglements.
• Navigation
  1. Use of a mechanical compass.
  2. Electronic compass.
  3. Underwater diver tracking systems.
• Management of emergencies
  1. Free-flowing regulators.
  2. BC inflator malfunctions.
  3. Mask problems.
  4. Managing currents.
  5. Entanglements.
  6. Unintended decompression obligations.
  7. Panic and stress management techniques.
  8. Use of surface marker buoys and location devices.
• Open Water Training
  1. 200 meter swim
  2. 6 open water dives
  3. How to use and carry a redundant air supply.
  4. Proper descent / ascent rates.
  5. Proper safety stop procedures.
  6. Monitoring of decompression status equipment (tables, computers, equipment).
  7. Demonstrate proficiency of navigation with compass.
  8. Demonstrate emergency change over to a backup regulator or bailout scuba
  9. Deploy surface marker and use of surface audible signaling device

PERT Program Courses

• PERT Home
• Intoduction to Emergency Response Diving
• Emergency Response Diver
• Encapsulated Diver
• Self-Sufficiency Diver
• PERT Low-Visbility & Black Water Search Diver