Our Team

Our Safety Divers are not only trained PADI Rescue divers, and certified Public Safety Divers, we are EMTs and Paramedics. We are also certified in Swift Water / Flood Rescue and Emergency Boat Operations. Along with our specialized training we use specialized equipment. Our Scuba and Top Water Rescue gear is made for Water Rescue Professionals, like us.


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Paul Fraser – Owner, Lead Instructor

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Our dive team commander is Paul Fraser a 15 year critical care trained paramedic with experience managing and coordinating EMS services as well as water rescue requests from motion picture productions and live action productions on the water. Besides the recreational SCUBA instructorship he holds, Paul is also a Public Safety Diving Instructor (learning from Mark Phillips) and a Swift Water / Flood Rescue Instructor (internship with Jim Segerstrom).

Paul is also the Coordinator for Gulf States Dive and Rescue. A not-for-profit statewide water rescue asset for Louisiana, recognized by the Govornor’s Office, State Fire Marshall Office and the Department of Wild Life and Fisheries as well as EMAC for national deployment.

  • Team deployments during Hurricanes Katrina, Ike, and Gustave.
  • Regional Director for the Public Safety Diving Association and Water Rescue Inc. (PSDA)
  • Louisiana Bureau of EMS Instructor
  • “On air” dive expert for MSNBC.
  • In articles such as LA. Film and Video (2005 & ‘07) Technical Rescue Magazine (2006), Winston Churchill Water Rescue Management (UK-2006) and Divers Alert Network Magazine (2005),
  • Adjunct instructor for the Galveston Police Dive Academy, Galveston, TX. (2005-2008)
  • Consultant for defense against the US Coast Guard (Duque vs. USCG 8/06)
  • Only local paramedic recognized nationally in Washington DC for water, land and helicopter based rescues immediately after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Star of Life Award 5/06).
  • Member of South East Louisiana Task Force -1 (Urban Search and Rescue Team)
  • Deployed in Orleans, Jefferson and Plaquemines parishes for potential & existing levee breaks during Hurricanes Gustave & Ike (2008).
  • Water Rescue/ SCUBA Instructor for about 40 Police, Fire and EMS agencies in LA, TX, MS & AL. including Louisiana Dept of Wildlife and Fisheries, Louisiana Task Force 1 and 2