~SWIFTWATER RESCUE

 ~DIVE RESCUE / RECOVERY

 ~WATER SAFETY EDUCATION & AWARENESS

  ~PUBLIC SAFETY DIVE TRAINING & CONSULTING

   The U.S. Water Rescue Dive Team is committed to water safety and awareness. The Public Safety Dive Team is available for rapid response to provide governmental agencies and families with water rescue and recovery services throughout the United States and internationally.

Our volunteer members are law enforcement, military, professional divers and EMT/paramedic personnel who are highly trained and proficient at meeting the challenges of underwater world. Based in Billings, Montana, the U.S. Water Rescue Dive Team has been providing dive rescue and recovery services, swiftwater / flood rescue, and water safet education since 1997. USWRDT has served serveral private organizations and numerous local, state, and federal agencies.

The team also provides Public Safety Dive training and consulting, dive rescue/recovery, swiftwater rescue, on-site standby water rescue and evidence recovery services. USWRDT provides standby water rescue for water related events whether for work or play.  Water safety and awareness education is another major thrust of the team’s mission. The U.S. Water Rescue Dive team does not receive governmental or tax-based funding but operates on membership funding and donations.

Much of the team’s work is not seen by the public, including the hundreds of hours of technical training required to obtain Public Safety Diver certifications and our underwater efforts. That does not mean the U.S. Water Rescue Dive Team is “out of sight, out of mind” as the services provided by the team are extremely important. The team touches entire communities as they bring home victims of drowning and assist law enforcement agencies in recovering evidence that helps bring justice to crime victims.

USWRDT Mission Statement:
U.S. Water Rescue Dive Team exists to reduce the number of water related incidents and deaths by providing water safety education and awareness, swiftwater rescue, dive rescue and recovery services, and public safety dive consulting. 

RECREATIONAL DIVERS:
Please do not attempt Public Safety Diving without the proper training, equipment, and team suppport.

PUBLIC SAFETY DIVERS:
Under stress, you will not rise to the occasion; you will fall to the level of your training!

For dive rescue equipment, technical dive equipment, and water rescue gear please visit our corporate web site at: uswaterrescue.com

A Dive Rescuers Prayer

When I'm called for duty God
to dive beneath the waves.
To search for an unfortunate soul
whose body they have claimed.

Let swiftness be my virtue
to find that soul in time.
Please let this be a rescue lord
and not the other "kind"

Be my eyes in the darkest lake
and guide me with your hand
that this person may be saved
when we return to land.

If this is not your will Lord
then please show me the way
to sort out this sad mystery
and to dive another day.

If things become the darkest Lord
and it's I that you call home
please guide my friends and family
that they'll never walk alone.
 
  by Kris D. Andrews
 Volunteer Dive Rescue Specialist,
American Dive Rescue Team, Bristol, Pennsylvania.
1998

"Servanthood"
Matthew 25:40: The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’