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		<title>Rescue Net</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of being a prepared rescuer is knowing how to get an injured diver or person out of the water and up onto a boat or dock. The first step is to strip all the gear off a diver, if this hasn’t already been done. The next step is to keep the patients horizontal when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Safety Diving Search Patterns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Walt Hendrick, Andrea Zaferes, and Craig Nelson MD. If you took a recreational rescue diver course or recreational search and recovery course, you probably learned a number of different search techniques, such as the expanding square or circular search using a line.  These techniques might work well for high-visibility, buddy diving, but they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am OK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do we, as water rescue response teams understand what it takes, mentally and physically, to make the total operation work? How do we get the most from our rescue personnel, while maintaining strict safety standards? Your beeper / Plectrum is going off, the code tells you to respond to a confirmed drowning. It is five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence &#8211; we all should know how to handle it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There may be more to it than meets the eye! in SORTIE Vol. 1 no. 2 brings up the point that drowning can be homicidal, and that a body could be dumped in the water in an attempt to cover up foul play. A significant percentage of dive teams today are fire teams. These teams [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/evidence-we-all-should-know-how-to-handle-it/</link>
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		<title>I Said NO! Or Is That An Order&#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ken Balfrey As law enforcement officers, do we have the right to say no in a surface or subsurface rescue situation? Are our departments and ranking officers (Chief, Sheriff, or Public Safety Directors) telling us we have to attempt a rescue? Do we have the equipment, skills, or training to make an educated, practical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/i-said-no-or-is-that-an-order/</link>
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		<title>The 15 minute Expert! PWC Operations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Personnel watercraft, are thrusting themselves into both the sport and public safety market at an unbelievable rate. The National Safe Boating Council states that more than 30% of all registered boats are personnel watercraft, while 60% of all boating and watercraft accidents involve PWC. A Personnel watercraft is described as any vessel with a water [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/the-15-minute-expert-pwc-operations/</link>
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		<title>Why wearing a harness is important for safety and search effectiveness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why wearing a harness is important for safety and search effectiveness Sometimes we take for granted that the value of a harness is obvious. We stop taking it for granted when we meet teams that either never thought of the concept or who are resistant to it. In either case, education needs to take place. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/why-wearing-a-harness-is-important-for-safety-and-search-effectiveness/</link>
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		<title>Learning how to Use and Clear an AGA mask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Desired Learning Outcome (DLO) of clearing an AGA is as follows. Two years from at 0200 hrs, you are called to a submerged vehicle with two passengers. It is cold and rainy. The team is in rescue mode. You are the primary diver. The tender’s good calculations put you right on top of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/learning-how-to-use-and-clear-an-aga-mask-2/</link>
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		<title>Dressing divers and tenders for Mass Casualty Operations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In parts I and II we discussed the initial steps for becoming prepared to manage a mass casualty water-related disaster such as a bridge collapse with multiple vehicle submersions. Drill training sessions were introduced with surface and subsurface personnel working around vehicles stacked up on land. This article discusses the minimum equipment needed by divers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/dressing-divers-and-tenders-for-mass-casualty-operations/</link>
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		<title>CLEARANCE SALE &#8211; LGS Buoyancy Compensators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lifeguard Systems Buoyancy Compensators CLEARANCE SALE!!! &#8211; New &#38; Demo Equipment CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PDF FLYER Call us for updated inventory The Lifeguard Systems Public Safety Diver Buoyancy Compensator: Quick Release Removable pony bottle pockets on both the left and right side Quick release clips for rapid and easy pony bottle removal and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://teamlgs.com/clearance-sale-lgs-buoyancy-compensator-bcd100/</link>
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