Bo Tibbetts is the full-time owner and water operations instructor for Public Safety Dive Services, a division of Technical Rescue International. He has been providing training services to public safety personnel for 17 years. Tibbetts is most noted with water operations, including surface ice rescue, swiftwater rescue, urban flood rescue, small boat operations, dive rescue and recovery operations. He has been instrumental in standardizing many water rescue industry standards and was accredited with numerous leading-edge ice rescue methodologies that are designed to keep rescue professionals safer. Tibbetts recently authored a segment of the second edition of the Water Rescue manual by Jones & Bartlett. He can be reached at [email protected].