With 36 years teaching thousands of recreational and professional divers worldwide, Andrea Zaferes is a noted author and public speaker who developed with Walt “Butch†Hendrick ground breaking diving and aquatic death investigation programs including Oxygen Administration, Field Neurological Evaluation, Leadership-Level Rescue, and Aquatic Abuse, Death, and homicide Investigation. She is a recipient of the DAN Rolex and Beneath the Sea Diver of the Year Awards for Diving Education and Safety, and several awards from the National Association of Underwater Instructors.
Andrea, a medicolegal death investigator, is familiar with the handling of aquatic cases from the scene to the courtroom. She trains law enforcement, medical examiners/coroners, forensic pathologists, dive teams, domestic violence and trafficking crime workers, medical personnel, and jurisprudence members to recognize, document, and investigate homicide, death, assault, and abuse cases that involve drowning, aquatics, and other forms of asphyxiation. She assists in analyzing and building such cases in the U.S. and abroad, and has developed best practices for their investigation. She has presented in more than 130 forensic and 100 rescue/diving conferences, has been teaching dive teams around the world for more than 30 years to recover submerged evidence and bodies, and is an author. She is a pro bono consultant for such organizations as NCMEC and the NYS Department of Criminal Justice System Missing Person Cold Case Review Panel, and works with Lifeguard Systems, Dutchess County Medical Examiner's Office, and Respond Against Violence. She is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the International Association of County Coroners and Medical examiners, and an associate member of the National Association of Medical Examiners.
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