Oconee County South Carolina Dive Team

Special Event Announcement

The Oconee County Dive Team will be holding our third annual Surface Supplied
Air Diving seminar on September 19th and 20th, the weekend before the IADRS
Public Safety Diver Conference.  This is a 2-day event being held at the diver's
landing at Devils Fork State Park's, 516 Jocassee Lake Road, Salem, SC, 29676. 
Lake Jocassee, one of the premier dive sites in the Southeast, is located about
2 ½ hours from Atlanta, GA, and about the same from Charlotte, NC. There is no
charge for attending other than the park entry fees of $2.00 per day. 
Activities will start at 0900 each day and end around 1700.  Meals are
attendee's responsibility.  There is a small store just outside of the park with
sandwiches, hot dogs and barbecue.  We will have plenty of water on site for
hydration.  Both days are identical so it is only necessary to attend one of the
two days, although everyone is welcome to attend both sessions.

This is a hands on event aimed at Public Safety Divers and Team leaders having
no experience with Surface Supplied Air. This seminar will demonstrate how to
set up common full-face masks for Surface Supplied Air Operation.  It will also
review emergency air requirements (Bail Out Bottle) as well making
recommendations as to setting up an FFM for use with gas blocks/manifolds. 
There will be an introduction to various Umbilical configurations, including
operational comparisons and limitations of lightweight and standard umbilicals.
Attendees will participate in the following operational positions: Air panel
operator; Dive Tender; Logs and Comms and of course DIVER for those attendees
holding a dive certification.  Based on last year's event, most will choose to
dive a Kirby Morgan Super Light 37 helmet or you may chose to dive a Band Mask
or one of several different full-face masks we have available for operation on
Surface Supplied Air including a EXO-26 BR, Guardian and an AGA.


We have 24 diving slots available and will do 12 each day. Divers enter the
water in pairs escorted by a safety diver.  Each team is allowed time to get
comfortable, practice moving around and is given an opportunity to assemble a
pipe puzzle.  Diving day preference will be honored until the day's slots are
filled after which assignments are for the remaining day. All attendees are
welcome on both days however you may also want to make a fun dive or two. 
Should you need accommodations, Devils Fork State park has full camping
facilities as do several other nearby state and county parks.  It is best to get
reservations for Devils Fork early as this is a popular camp ground.  Motels are
available in Seneca, about a half hour from the dive site.

To sign up or obtain additional information, contact Bob Kinder at (864)
444-2524 or Email rkinder@....  When signing up, please include
which day you would prefer to attend.  You will receive a confirmation Email,
confirming your slot and which day you have been assigned for diving.

In the month of May there were two PSD Fatalities.

Information on the incidents has been sketchy and there was little news
coverage.

We have compiled what we have found so far and posted it for download on the
PSDiver Fatality page at wwww.PSDiver.com

Mark Phillips
Editor/Publisher
PSDiver Monthly
www.PSDiver.com

Rapid entry drill, this drill was intended to simulate a common type of drowning
our team encounters.  Scenario, a person slips on shore or jumps off a boat
dock, we have seen this in 25 to 30 percent of our drowning victims.  In each
case the victims where found with in a radius of point of entry no greater than
the depth of the water.

Divers performed a pre-dive safety check on the dive site and mission.  A land
based drill was performed following a briefing on rapidly pre-diving equipment
and communications, then entering the water to search for a victim.  Order of
equipment check was turn on Bail out Tank, open gas block valve press purge
valve, turn off gas block, purge, turn on main tank, test breathe mask, tender
and diver confirm air pressure, diver puts on equipment, communications/lifeline
attached to diver, voice communications confirmed, BCD is partially inflated, a
down line is deployed and the diver enters the water to perform search.  Upon
reaching the bottom diver states on bottom, starting search, upon finding object
diver states target found, prepare to recover diver and target.

Minimum team for this exercise is 3 persons, preferably 4, Supervisor, standby
diver/tender, primary diver; if possible an additional tender should be present.
During this training a separate senior standby diver was dressed out and
prepared to respond to any divers experiencing trouble. It was a great training
wish all could have been present.

Sam and I took out the OTS transmitters and performed operational tests.  Of the
three units in service a problem was found with one of them.  The problem was
isolated to the power connector going to the battery pack.  It appeared that
there was an internal fracture to one of the wires.  Following a test dive the
repair was completed and the defective unit tested on shore.  We where able to
communicate diver to diver over 200 yards today with out any problems.   The
surface unit was not tested today.

As we start the new year new batteries should be purchased for all lights and
communications devices, estimated cost will be $500.00 or less, if some one
would make a motion to allocate funds at the meeting it would be appreciated.

Meeting reminder, our normal business meeting will be held, Tuesday Night at
18:00 in the Emergency Operations Center, located in the Oconee Law Enforcement
Center.  This will be a joint business meeting for both the dive and special
rescue teams.

I am pleased to announce that Scott, has obtained funds to purchase 3 Guardian
full face masks, with hard wire communications modules installed.  This is a big
deal that has saved the team a lot of money.  We all need to thank him for
supporting our team.

As part of this meeting we will be discussing training for both teams, as well
as for holiday coverage on Lake Keowee, Steve will talk about rewarding kids
using life jackets.

Hope to see you at the meeting

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In the recent issue of PSDiver Monthly I discussed some possible issues facing
specialty teams; particullarly dive and water response teams. We are already
seeing some of the predictions I made come true. What if there is no team
available? Go to our www.PSDiver.com site and click on the DIVE VIDEOS. Watch
the news video titled: Dive team speaks out.

If you did not get notice that the issue was available for download you can
enter your email address for your free subscription on the same web site.

There are new additions to the PSD Fatality page. If you have not visited them
yet, these reports are targeted toward Water Rescue and Recovery Team member
fatalities.

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PSDiver Monthly
www.PSDiver.com

Update, Hummingbird 997 Si, side-imaging sonar has been installed on
primary boat. Sam is setting up portable mount for use on our smaller
boats.  We have received the new 40 Cuf. Tanks, and new BCD wings for
the Arvest.  We have all of the parts for completing the redundant
SCUBA sets, waiting only on 2 gas blocks.  These projects should be
completed by March 1.  At this point we are still under budget.

Files, over the last several days I have reviewed our operations manual
and found some of the forms to be out of date.  This has been cured,
with a new dive profile log being up loaded, a new simple dive log,
updated body recovery form and updated vehicle recovery form being
included.  It was also noted that a post dive checklist for the helmets
was missing this was added to the manual.

There is also a new file containing the emergency response in POV
forms, this is in PDF format and can be downloaded.  I hope this will
help.

Have a happy Thanksgiving.

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October 5th, we conducted safety drills, in which we had to respond
to a trapped diver.  For those team members that attended the
previous months training in which the drills where boat based.  We
performed similar drills from land, to a diver entangled in a search
line 150' from shore.  All safety divers where able to access the
trapped divers in less than 7 minuets.  Well within our 15 minuet
bail out bottles capacity.  Good job.

October 11th and 12th, we conducted our SSA seminar, this was a
wonderful event, I have received some positive post seminar
comments.  One of which was from an attendee that was NAVY trained.
After participating, he was impressed with the safety SSA brings to
the table and has begun working with the money folks to obtain
several SSA systems for their large dive team.  For those that
participated in supporting this event you did a great job.  One
comment that was a real surprise was that we were more organized than
was expected, and that the attendee learned much more that was
expected.  He wanted to thank each and everyone for making his trip
worthwhile.  With any luck we will be able to do this again.

October 7th thru 11th we had a land and water based search, in West
Union, involving more than 100 different public safety responders.
This involved many agencies from our county and many mutual aid
agencies.  We would like to publicly thank all that assisted in
performing this search.  Everyone, worked hard for a common goal, we
also learned about new equipment from one of the responding mutual
aid teams that could increase the effectiveness of future searches.

Out of a desperate need for a small boat to perform side imaging in 2
small lakes, the dive team repaired the old Oak Way Rescue Jon Boat
and installed a 6hp motor.  This is another resource available for
access to some of our smaller lakes.  Sam McClung loaned his
Humminbird 997 to save many days of diving necessary to clear the
lakes.  We mounted his unit on the Jon Boat and cleared the lakes in
4 hours including transport of the boat.  If we had dived it would
have been several days per lake.  Thanks Sam.

And finally October 22 we had a car enter the lake at Keowee Marina,
this was next to the fuel dock and required the use of our lift
bags.  By using the lift bags we prevented thousands of dollars of
damage to the dock systems had we just towed the car out of the
lake.  While this was a night call, we had a great turn out.

Oconee County Dive Team

Special Event Announcement

The Oconee County Dive Team will be holding our second annual Surface
Supplied Air Diving seminar on October 11 and 12th, 2008.  This is a
2-day event being held at Devils Fork State Park's at the divers
landing, located on Lake Jocassee, one of the premier dive sites in
the South East.  There is no charge for attending other than park
entry fees of $2.00 per day.  Activities will start at 09:00 each
day, and end around 17:00 we will be providing pizza lunches each
day; all other meals are attendee's responsibility.

This is a hands on event, aimed at Public Safety Divers, and Team
leaders having no experience with Surface Supplied Air. This seminar
will demonstrate how to set up common full-face masks for Surface
Supplied Air Operation.  Review emergency air requirements (Bail Out
Bottle) as well making recommendations as to setting up a FFM for use
with gas blocks/manifolds.  Introduction to various Umbilical
configurations, including operational comparisons and limitations of
lightweight and standard umbilicals.   Attendee's will participated
in the following operational positions, Air panel operator, Dive
Tender, Logs and Comms and of course DIVER for those attendees
holding a dive certification.  Based on last years event most will
choose to dive a Kirby Morgan Super light 37 helmet. Or you may chose
to dive a Band Mask or one of several different full-face masks we
have available for operation on Surface Supplied Air.

Both Saturday and Sunday afternoon following the main seminar we will
have a fully operational DESCO Mark V, dive helmet on site.
Following each day's registration a drawing will be held to determine
which of the days attendees will dive this historical piece of dive
equipment.

We have 20 diving slots available, 10 each day. Diving day preference
will be honored until the days slots are filled after which
assignments are for the opposing day. All attendees are welcome on
both days however you may also want to make a fun dive or two.
Should you need accommodations Devils Fork State park has full
camping facilities along with several other nearby state and county
parks.  Motels are available in Seneca, about 30 minuets from the
dive site.

To sign up or obtain additional information contact Bob Kinder at
(864) 444-2524 or Email rkinder@..., when signing up
please include which day you would prefer to attend.  You will
receive a confirmation Email, confirming your slot and which day you
have been assigned for diving.

There is another recall for Aqualung regulator issued today. It can be
found by following this link:

http://www.aqualung.com/us/content/view/285/

We are conducting a Weapons and Body Recovery class in Galveston at the GPD
Dive Academy in Dev ember. Check the Galveston Academy Page at
_www.PSDiver.com_ (http://www.PSDiver.com)  for  details.   Pass it on...

Mark Phillips



In a message dated 9/12/2008 2:26:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
oconeedive@yahoogroups.com writes:

His county is starting a dive/water rescue  team




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bob, just a heads up.  I talked with Glenn Hamm from Newberry, SC today.  His
county is starting a dive/water rescue team.  We talked about swiftwater rescue
but also about Oconee county's dive program.  I gave him your email address and
he should be contacting you soon.

See ya,

Todd



To: oconeedive@...: rkinder@...: Sat, 19 Jul
2008 10:12:40 -0400Subject: [oconeedive] Look this over before the meeting, so
that we may tune this announcement prior to official release.




Oconee County Dive TeamSpecial Event AnnouncementThe Oconee County Dive Team
will be holding our second annual SurfaceSupplied Air Diving seminar on
September 6th and 7th, 2008. This is a 2-dayevent being held at Devils Fork
State Park's at the divers landing, locatedon Lake Jocassee, one of the premier
dive sites in the South East. There isno charge for attending other than park
entry fees of $2.00 per day.Activities will start at 09:00 each day, and end
around 17:00 we will beproviding pizza lunches each day; all other meals are
attendee'sresponsibility.This is a hands on event, aimed at Public Safety
Divers, and Team leadershaving no experience with Surface Supplied Air. This
seminar willdemonstrate how to set up common full-face masks for Surface
Supplied AirOperation. Review emergency air requirements (Bail Out Bottle) as
wellmaking recommendations as to setting up a FFM for use with
gasblocks/manifolds. Introduction to various Umbilical configurations,including
operational comparisons and limitations of lightweight andstandard umbilicals.
Attendee's will participated in the followingoperational positions, Air panel
operator, Dive Tender, Logs and Comms andof course DIVER for those attendees
holding a dive certification. Based onlast years event most will choose to dive
a Kirby Morgan Super light 37helmet. Or you may chose to dive a Band Mask or one
of several differentfull-face masks we have available for operation on Surface
Supplied Air.Both Saturday and Sunday afternoon following the main seminar we
will have afully operational DESCO Mark V, dive helmet on site. Following each
day'sregistration a drawing will be held to determine which of the days
2attendees will dive this historical piece of dive equipment.We have 20 diving
slots available, 10 each day. Diving day preference willbe honored until the
days slots are filled after which assignments are forthe opposing day. All
attendees are welcome on both days however you mayalso want to make a fun dive
or two. Should you need accommodations DevilsFork State park has full camping
facilities along with several other nearbystate and county parks. Motels are
available in Seneca, about 30 minuetsfrom the dive site.To sign up or obtain
additional information contact Bob Kinder at (864)444-2524 or Email
rkinder@..., when signing up please includewhich day you would
prefer to attend. You will receive a confirmationEmail, confirming your slot and
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I posted the recall file on the site.

Loftis

I am not sure how many of you use Aqualung products if any, but there
has been a Consumer safety notice put out by CPSC regarding regulators
and adaptors. I will try to post it as a word doc.

Loftis

We have added a page to the www.PSDiver.com web site for PSD
FATALITIES.

This is not a page we looked forward to adding but has been plane for
a while. I have a number of files containing news articles related to
individual incidents in the past but the recent fatality brought the
project forward.

I have consolidated a number of news articles on the recent fatality
and have posted the file here:
http://www.psdiver.com/psdfatalites/080408psdtivertonri.html

If you have additional information that you can share, please email
it to: psdivermonthly@...

Our heartfelt condolences to the family,

Mark Phillips
Editor / Publisher
PSDiver Monthly
www.PSDiver.com

I recently added a subpage in the RESOURCES section of www.PSDiver.com.

If you are interested in a consolidated page of up to the minute
information on hurricanes or other weather - check out the page and
bookmark it.

The last entry called Golden Triangle Weather Page is what I use the
most for Tropical Storm and Hurricane information.

Mark Phillips
Editor / Publisher
PSDiver Monthly
www.PSDiver.com

We had a great training session at the divers landing.  We started with
an overview of the air panels, and Umbilicals, reviewed dive radios and
hardwire communications.  Went over isolation requirements for a
Vehicle recoveries and why PPE is so important for diver safety.  We
covered how to approach objects underwater and safety concerns.  We
then setup the SSA system and started dive operations.  This was truly
hands on with everyone present getting involved.  I would like to thank
the station 21 firefighters that participated both as divers and
tenders, for digging in and learning as much as possible in a short
period of time.  Several divers made their first helmet dive, which
begins their journey to becoming helmet divers.

Call 1, was to a possible Suicide near Friendship Boat Ramp, we
worked in conjunction with Oconee Fire and Sheriff's Department,
along with assistance from DNR to clear the shallow water with
lights.  This was a night call that looked like we would be diving
all night.  Sam McClung brought down his Side Imaging Sonar and
cleared the cove in less than 15 minuets; we continued additional
passes just to make sure the victim was not in the water.  DNR
started a land search in the nearby woods and located our missing
person in time for EMS to stabilize him.

Call 2, was Sunday afternoon, a drowning at South Cove Park, before
we arrived the victim was recovered, park staff and bystanders
obtained respirations and heart beat before EMS arrived.  Our team
assisted in setting up a landing Zone for Med Tranz.

Call 3, was also on Sunday, a large house was on fire near the shore
line, as water supplies ran low Pontoon 2 was requested for it's fire
pump.   We supplied water from 18:00 until 02:20.  For the last 3
hours we acted as the primary pump, this was during the overhaul
stage knocking out hot spots.

Call 4, was Monday at Friendship boat ramp, this was for a truck in
the water.  As it turned out this truck had been missing for several
years.  We treated this as a possible HAZMAT dive and used full SSA,
Helmet, with matting dry suit and gloves.  This was a short dive that
worked out just great.

For all that assisted thank you for all of you time and energy.

Don't for get the SSA intro for dive team members this Saturday, Meet
at Devils Fork divers landing at 09:00.  Depending on the number
attending this could be a long day so be prepared thanks

July Activity, this has been a busy month, between patrol on the 4th,
and several calls, we have assisted Rabun County at Lake Burton on the
20th and 21st on a drowning completing 8 dives on SSA at depths ranging
from 68 to 99 feet.  We responded to a possible drowning near
Friendship Boat ramp last night.  This was a person that had suffered
an overdose; the Sheriff's department dogs indicated that the person
had entered the lake from one of the docks.  Sam McClung responded with
his side imaging sonar and saved us a lot of underwater work we where
able to clear the entire cove in less than 45 minute, In less that 15
we determined that he most likely was not in the water SCDNR began a
shore search due to our initial results and located the person.
Turnouts have been great keep up the good work.

Oconee County Dive Team

Special Event Announcement

The Oconee County Dive Team will be holding our second annual Surface
Supplied Air Diving seminar on September 6th and 7th, 2008.  This is a 2-day
event being held at Devils Fork State Park's at the divers landing, located
on Lake Jocassee, one of the premier dive sites in the South East.  There is
no charge for attending other than park entry fees of $2.00 per day.
Activities will start at 09:00 each day, and end around 17:00 we will be
providing pizza lunches each day; all other meals are attendee's
responsibility.

This is a hands on event, aimed at Public Safety Divers, and Team leaders
having no experience with Surface Supplied Air. This seminar will
demonstrate how to set up common full-face masks for Surface Supplied Air
Operation.  Review emergency air requirements (Bail Out Bottle) as well
making recommendations as to setting up a FFM for use with gas
blocks/manifolds.  Introduction to various Umbilical configurations,
including operational comparisons and limitations of lightweight and
standard umbilicals.   Attendee's will participated in the following
operational positions, Air panel operator, Dive Tender, Logs and Comms and
of course DIVER for those attendees holding a dive certification.  Based on
last years event most will choose to dive a Kirby Morgan Super light 37
helmet. Or you may chose to dive a Band Mask or one of several different
full-face masks we have available for operation on Surface Supplied Air.

Both Saturday and Sunday afternoon following the main seminar we will have a
fully operational DESCO Mark V, dive helmet on site.  Following each day's
registration a drawing will be held to determine which of the days 2
attendees will dive this historical piece of dive equipment.

We have 20 diving slots available, 10 each day. Diving day preference will
be honored until the days slots are filled after which assignments are for
the opposing day. All attendees are welcome on both days however you may
also want to make a fun dive or two.  Should you need accommodations Devils
Fork State park has full camping facilities along with several other nearby
state and county parks.  Motels are available in Seneca, about 30 minuets
from the dive site.

To sign up or obtain additional information contact Bob Kinder at (864)
444-2524 or Email rkinder@..., when signing up please include
which day you would prefer to attend.  You will receive a confirmation
Email, confirming your slot and which day you have been assigned for diving.



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Don't forget our regular monthly meeting on Tuesday night at 18:00 at
the LEC, EOC meeting room.

Night Dive, Thursday night meet at the main boat ramp, Lake Jocassee,
18:30, planning on leaving the ramp 19:00 to 19:15.  You may use any
equipment, county or personal.

9 Training days 3 of which where mutual aid requests for training or
training support.

7 days of providing lake safety patrol Lake Keowee

3 days of providing fire safety coverage on Lake Keowee and Lake
Hartwell during 4th of July weekend.

4 Responses to Drowning, one in each of our lakes Jocassee, Keowee,
Hartwell, one Mutual aid out of state response.

2 Boat Recoveries Lake Jocassee

1 Response to Cardiac Emergency, High Falls Park.

1 Medical response Lake Hartwell with transport

2 Medical response Lake Keowee with transport

Oconee County Dive Team Training Announcement

Surface Supplied Air Diving orientation dives August 2, 2008, 09:00 at
Devils Fork State Park's at the divers landing

This is a hands on event, we will demonstrate how to set up our teams
full-face masks for Surface Supplied Air Operation.  Review emergency
air requirements (Bail Out Bottle) based on operational depth.
Introduction to the teams various Umbilical configurations, including
operational comparisons and limitations of lightweight and standard
umbilicals.   Attendee's will participated in the following operational
positions, Air panel operator, Dive Tender, Logs and Communications and
of course DIVER.  Orientation dives in the teams Kirby Morgan Super
light 37 helmet and time allowing our EXO masks.

Following the training session we will have a fully operational DESCO
Mark V, dive helmet on site.  We should be able to allow a couple of
those present to get a dive in.

Very nice.
Bob Jones
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Willie,

I was recently at the scene of a boating accident victim search and
witnessed first hand our county emergency services at work. They did
an excellent job. There were no issues of finance or whether or not
they had on life jackets, they just did their job and they did it
well. The dive team searched into the night to find our loved one,
even when you could hear thunder in the distance they did not let up.
I understand everyone's bottom line is money, but they make
sacrifices and risk their own lives every day to save someone else.
Next time you want to gripe about the way someone is doing their job,
maybe you should take a step back to remember that you do not know
all the facts all the time.

As for the dive team I am grateful for the job you did. You helped a
lot of people rest a little easier that night knowing our loved one
was not at the bottom of the lake. Thank you so much for all you do!

Willie says:

Willie is very, very sorry for your loss. We are all fortunate to
have selfless, dedicated emergency services workers and dive team
there for us when tragedy strikes.




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Willie,

I was recently at the scene of a boating accident victim search and
witnessed first hand our county emergency services at work. They did
an excellent job. There were no issues of finance or whether or not
they had on life jackets, they just did their job and they did it
well. The dive team searched into the night to find our loved one,
even when you could hear thunder in the distance they did not let up.
I understand everyone's bottom line is money, but they make
sacrifices and risk their own lives every day to save someone else.
Next time you want to gripe about the way someone is doing their job,
maybe you should take a step back to remember that you do not know
all the facts all the time.

As for the dive team I am grateful for the job you did. You helped a
lot of people rest a little easier that night knowing our loved one
was not at the bottom of the lake. Thank you so much for all you do!

Willie says:

Willie is very, very sorry for your loss. We are all fortunate to
have selfless, dedicated emergency services workers and dive team
there for us when tragedy strikes.

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