Our founder Tim Andro was selected as ERDI’s 2023 Ambassador https://www.tdisdi.com/erdi-news/2023-erdi-ambassadors/ and says, ” All of us at NePSD really appreciate the opportunity to be ambassadors for 2023 and look forward to helping our PSD family”. All of us at NePSD are dedicated to providing our students with the best opportunities of training and ERDI …
Tim is the founder, owner, and head certifying instructor of Northeast Public Safety Divers.
He has almost 20 years of recreational and technical dive experience, including Advanced Trimix and Closed-Circuit Rebreather with depths over 200’, and has logged over 3,500 dives (including over 800 deco dives).
He has also been a firefighter for 22 years, 12 of those as a public safety diver, and is the current Dive Coordinator for Mahwah Fire & Rescue Co #1 since 2015, and the current President of the North Jersey Regional SCUBA Task Force since 2019. Tim has run dive operations for the FBI, US Coast Guard, NY and NJ Port Authority Police, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Alberta, and numerous other smaller jurisdictions throughout NY & NJ.
His expertise is widely recognized in the public safety dive community where he has been a requested speaker at numerous dive conferences and seminars, as well as a requested consultant on emerging dive standards.
Tim was awarded The Medal Of Valor in 2011 by the Northwest Bergen Mutual Aid Association for rescuing two victims from the Ramapo River during Hurricane Irene. Tim has received the ERDI “Outstanding Instructor Award” for 2016, 2017, 2018 and is the 2023 ERDI Ambassador!
Our Staff has been working hard over the last three years to complete Mike Berry’s https://www.ucidiver.com/ Underwater Crime Scene Investigator’s Program. In November we completed the last level, which is UCI commander, this class tied together all the training to be able to run a safe and professional dive operation. We are very proud of …
MONDAY OCTOBER 24- WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 26, 2022 (8AM-5PM DAILY)LOCATION: BAYFRONT CONVENTION CENTERERIE, PENNSYLVANIA We are excited to be asked to fill in for Mike Berry owner of Underwater Criminal Investigators to speak at the event. We will be putting a car in the water for the first part of presentation, the second part will be …
Weekend #1 Feb 3 – 5, 2023 Weekend #2 Feb 24 – 26, 2023 We are Excited as the cold weather is coming… And that means it’s time for ice diving! THIS YEAR WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO INTRODUCE OUR THIN ICE TECHNICIAN PROGRAM!!!!! The Thin Ice Program was proudly designed by our staff and …
ERDI Ice & Thin Ice Diver Technician TWO WEEKENDS Read More »
Welcome to the first steps towards shedding mediocrity and stepping up your underwater evidence collection game – We’re glad you’re here!! There is a lot of information contained on this page… so make sure you get to the bottom. What is this course about? The purpose of the ERDI Underwater Crime Scene Investigations program is …
ERDI Underwater Criminal Investigation Course Jan 7-8, 2023 Read More »
Tim, John, and Eric have been very busy the last few month working on completing their PADI instructor program. This past weekend they finished the program and are now certified as PADI instructors. As many know we are loyal to ERDI and the programs we built, we did this to be able to provide our …
We got contacted by the Bergen County Historical Society https://www.bergencountyhistory.org/ to help search for their missing cannon. This place is packed full of history and we feel lucky to be able to help. This will be an on going project as the conditions are very challenging, we will only be able to dive the site …
After four years of planning and fund raising by the host team, our Canada trip is finally a wrap! And what a week it was! This trip had humble beginnings in the form of a simple email asking if Northeast Public Safety Divers would travel to Alberta, Canada to teach public safety divers in the …
We are heading to the USCGC LILAC to help with the project. We will be doing a full hull inspection and mapping project with the intention of checking for damage , along with a couple target areas. Check out the link for more on the project : http://www.lilacpreservationproject.org/
