Dive Supervisor/Scientific Diver
Mr. Cranney has been with ESI since June, 2003. He has trained dive
personnel, supervised divers, prepared safety manuals, and developed dive
and equipment maintenance logs. Mr. Cranney develops all dive safety plans,
including those for the US Army Corps of Engineers projects. He conducts
equipment inspections, maintenance, and repairs imperative for safe diving
operations. With ESI, Mr. Cranney has served as dive supervisor, diver,
back-up diver, and dive tender in unionid and macroinvertebrate surveys,
primarily in the Mississippi and Ohio river basins. In addition, he assists
with the collection of physical and chemical data, processing samples in the
laboratory, and upkeep of field equipment. His previous experience includes
serving as a diving instructor in Thailand. There, he led environmental
diving tours on reef ecology, and fish and coral identification, was
responsible for diver safety practices according to government and diving
industry regulation, taught recreational SCUBA courses including diving
physics, physiology, and environmental education, and maintained a computer
program for the non-destructive testing of high-pressure cylinders. Kendall
is ADCI certified (Surface-Supplied Air Diving Supervisor), a PADI Master
SCUBA Trainer, Emergency First Response CPR/AED/First Aid Instructor, DAN (DAN) Oxygen First Aid Instructor, and he is also HAZMAT
certified.
kcranney@ecologicalspecialists.com
