training agency

[nimoh]

thanks for the info, and thanks for the welcome.

We are a volunteer dive team for the Olmsted County Sheriff's Department and train twice a month and currently looking at getting formal training. We are down to two options.

1. Bring in an ERDI instructor to teach classes.
2. We have a team member that is a PADI instructor, and getting him qualified to teach PADI PSD.

Personally, I am leaning toward the ERDI option based on what I have found out about both programs. However, there may be times when we end up in a joint effort, so I am hoping to find out more about the teams in surrounding counties. Ultimately, it will be the Sheriff's decision and I am just trying to gather some information.

We had a subset of our team out in Winona a couple of months ago for the search for the missing people, and I know there were a few other teams out there as well. I couldn't help but notice how different we were in some respects to other teams, and wondering if training could help close the gap to make teams work more efficiently together.