Cpl. Jamie Diemert - RCMP Underwater Recovery Team - Specialist Job Series

Описание: Meet Cpl. Jamie Diemert, Coordinator with the RCMP’s Underwater Recovery Team in Regina, Saskatchewan. Cpl. Diemert’s team dives in fresh and salt water across the country to help locate evidence and missing persons, and ultimately help close cases or offer a sense of closure to families.
The training that goes into Cpl. Diemert’s role is extensive – underwater divers spend months and countless hours learning techniques in all sorts of difficult weather conditions, as well as practicing how to dive in enclosed spaces and in low visibility.
Thank you to Cpl. Diemert and to all Members of the RCMP’s underwater recovery team across the country for being incredibly brave and for putting yourselves into often dangerous situations to help provide answers to your communities.
My name is Jamie Diemert, and I'm a corporal with the F Division underwater recovery team. We recover things, whether it's evidence or unfortunately missing persons from bodies of water and try to help close those case files that otherwise would remain open without that evidence or without that missing person. From the point that I left Depot; I would have been an understudy with underwater recovery team for almost two years. Then there's that five-week training course out in the Nanaimo, BC, with the National Underwater Recovery Training Center. Then after that, we have a three-week surface supply air diving course that gets into a little bit more advanced diving skill. And then there are certain specialties whether it's advanced underwater investigator. Then you start getting into the site supervisory role as well as the instructor role. My current job involves and lining up dive operations, being able to arrange the logistics of it, whether it's simple as hotel rooms. When we travel to Alberta and northern Saskatchewan, the vehicles, the equipment needed to maintain the gear so that it's ready to go and the divers can trust it with their lives. There's also recruitment the ongoing training. We all have to recertify our skills every year. So, it involves a lot of different things. The investigators will give us a call and explain what has happened. Then we start going through a bunch of different questions how big is our search area? What is the item we're looking for? Last point seen, current water conditions, whether it's a river that's fast flowing or it's a lake, but it might be very deep and then logistics of how do we get divers on to the site? Some of the challenges we could face underwater is limited visibility. Sometimes it's less than a meter. It might be down to zero visibility. A lot of people believe that my job will be like diving in warm water, whether it's Mexico or Hawaii or something similar and it's definitely not. We've operated and plus 30-degree temperatures, and we've operated in minus 30-degree temperatures. It's always challenging. Very seldom is a day the same as another. So, if somebody likes the mental challenges of being able to deal with a lot of different things going on and still keeping calm and working through problems, that's the type of person that I look for when I recruit new divers. I'm most proud of being able to help people when there are not many people that can do it. You're also able to experience numerous things. I've been able to dive from the West Coast to the East Coast, as well as being able to be beyond dive operations in the Arctic. It's been a fantastic career for me.