Tim Andro

Tim is the founder, owner, and head certifying instructor of Northeast Public Safety Divers. Tim began diving in 2005 and became in SDI and ERDI instructor in 2015. Over the course of his extensive dive career, Tim has accrued over 100 individual dive certifications and logged over 4,000 dives to depths over 200'. Tim is also an active firefighter (since 1999) and public safety diver on the Mahwah Fire and Rescue Co #1 Dive Rescue team, where he is also the Coordinator of that team since 2015. In his position as coordinator, Tim has commanded dive operations for the FBI, US Coast Guard, NY & NJ Port Authority Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and numerous other smaller jurisdictions. His expertise is widely recognized in the public safety dive community where he has been a speaker at numerous dive conferences and has received the ERDI "Outstanding Instructor Award" for 2016, 2017, and 2018.

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Tim Andro

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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!

NePSD Staff Finishes UCI Commander

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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 …

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2022 PCARS COLLISION RECONSTRUCTION SEMINAR

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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 …

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ERDI Ice & Thin Ice Diver Technician TWO WEEKENDS

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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 …

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ERDI Underwater Criminal Investigation Course Jan 7-8, 2023

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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 …

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NePSD Staff Finished PADI IEC

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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 …

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NJ Transit ERDI PSD Program, Oct 9/10 & 22/23, 2022

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We are very excited to bring our full ERDI PSD program to the NJ Transit Dive Team this coming fall. We will be conducting Full Face Mask, Drysuit, and Tender, along with ERDI 1. This is a lecture and hands-on intensive course designed to provide students with the necessary skills to be operational Public Safety …

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