2001 Academy
View the complete academy schedule in pdf format.
April 6, Orientation slide show
April 8, Confined water evaluation
April 13, Physiology and dive accidents, characteristics of a drowning victim, basic oceanography review.
Links for review:
April 20, Fatalities; working with County Medical Examiners, crime scene evaluation and evidence handling.
Links for review:
Ventura County Medical Examiner
April 22 Beach Evaluation
April 27, Water Rescue
Links for review:
12 Signs Your Buddy's About to Panic
April 29, Water rescue skills practice/evaluation.
May 4, Search patterns, communications
Links for review:
May 6, Buoyancy control evaluation, U/W search pattern and body bagging practice.
May 11, Night dive, compass and navigation
May 18, Dive Physics
Links for review:
Scuba Physics; Buoyancy and Gas Laws
May 20, Entanglement, u/w communicators
May 25, Divemaster procedures/first responder responsibilities
Links for review:
Divemaster Checklist (PDF)
ICS forms (Not the official forms VCSO uses, but good for practice)
DM Procedures lecture presentation
May 27, DM Procedures practice, Lake Piru
June 1, Procedures for establishing a search grid
Links for review:
June 3, Establish search grid, PWC familiarization, comm gear/search, Lake Piru
June 8, Incident Command System, knots and rigging.
Links for review:
Incident Command System Forms (USCG) For "Word" format, click here.
ICS Forms (BASARC)
ICS (New York State)
June 10, Evidence search, collection and recovery, Lake Piru
June 17, Final training scenario, graduation barbeque
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