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.

NePSD Staff Finished PADI IEC

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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NePSD Certifies Canadian Public Safety Divers

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 …

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

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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NePSD Staff heads to Georgia for the UCI College

Tim and John spent the last week working along side legendary Mike Berry https://www.ucidiver.com/mike-berry. We had the pleasure of working with 19 amazing students over the course of the week. It was also a really humbling experiences to work along side Mike and his incredible staff. We have big thing coming down the line, Stay …

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ERDI Contaminated Water TECHNICIAN, Sept 23 – 24, 2022

The ERDI contaminated water technician program is designed to provide divers and topside personal with the tools to operate in and around contaminated water. The course is composed of elearning, classroom , and field work. All aspects of contaminated water will be covered including proper equipment and documentation. Students will then move out to the …

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