Public Safety Diving
2026 Public Safety Divers Symposium
Friday, March 27th 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Meadowlands Exposition Center
Beneath the Sea is presenting a comprehensive 7-hour symposium designed specifically for the Public Safety Diving community. This event will explore, educate, and engage current public safety diving practitioners through a combination of best practices and networking opportunities within the industry. Whether you are new to public safety diving or a seasoned professional, you will gain valuable insights that will reshape your perspective on this vital field.
The program features a series of presentations by nationally and internationally recognized frontline public safety diving professionals.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to have your questions about public safety diving answered firsthand!
How to Work Together
In situations like drowning or vehicle recovery, police officers coordinate with dive teams to ensure a swift response. The police provide initial assessments and secure the scene, while divers execute the underwater search. Police often rely on divers to recover submerged evidence crucial for investigations. This includes weapons, vehicles, or other items that may aid in solving crimes. Both police officers and public safety divers undergo rigorous training. Officers may receive basic diving training, while divers are trained in search patterns, evidence handling, and safety protocols in challenging environments. In many regions, multiple law enforcement agencies may not have their own dive teams. They collaborate through agreements, allowing one agency’s dive team to assist others in need.
This daylong program will examine how State Police departments from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts coordinate efforts and how Public Safety Divers work with them.
- Skeeter Porter
Discusses Newest Technology on Side Scan Sonar.
- Kyle Garrett
Newly designed program creating a hub for dive departments to put their information, diver records and profiles in. Kyle will be giving the program away to everyone who is at the talk.
- Peter Gannon, Dive Rescue International
How to Get Teams to Work with Different Trainers.
- Walt "Butch" Hendrick and Andrea Zaferes
What to Do When It All Goes Wrong.
*** Seminars run from 9am to 4pm and include lunch. Price $110.
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