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Dominick Briganti

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Life has been a huge lesson… Nothing to date has been more important part of my life than Christ. All the years spent listening to my self has got me incredible careers, financial stability, friendships, very unstable relationships, bad choices, sin, betrayed, and discouragement. Grateful for the grace I have received and gifted by the Holy Spirit to see the narrow path I must walk. Discernment will be my life’s work until the day of my judgement and says that He knows me. KYRIE ELEISON 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 taken in Dunedin, Florida by @usar505

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2 years ago

You asked — here it is. 🩸
After my confined space rescue kit breakdown, a ton of you wanted inside the MARCH pouch. So let’s open it up.

MARCH is the order you treat what kills fastest:
M – Massive hemorrhage
A – Airway
R – Respiration
C – Circulation
H – Hypothermia / Head
Here’s the principle: this is not my medical aid bag. It’s a separate, dedicated pouch with one job — stopping preventable death. The aid bag handles cuts, sprains, and sustained care. The MARCH pouch handles the first five minutes that decide whether someone goes home. When seconds count, I’m not digging through a big bag — I grab the pouch, and every item is staged in the order I’ll need it.
Massive hemorrhage is the number 1 preventable cause of death in trauma. That’s why it’s first — and why it rides up front.

💬 Want the full contents AND the “why” behind every item? Comment MARCH and I’ll send the complete MARCH Pouch breakdown (PDF) straight to your DMs. (Make sure you’re following so it delivers.)

📌 Quick contents list in the pinned comment.

Trained providers: this is my kit and my rationale — not a substitute for hands-on TCCC/TECC or Stop the Bleed training. Get trained, stay current.

#MARCH #StopTheBleed #TacticalMedicine #TCCC #TECC taken in Tampa, Florida by @usar505

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19 hours ago

Pan con tomate. 🍅🥖

One of my absolute favorite foods—and proof that some of the best things you can eat don’t need to be complicated.

Known as pa amb tomàquet in Catalonia, this humble dish has been a staple of Catalan cooking since at least the late 19th century: bread, ripe tomato, olive oil, salt—and depending on who’s making it, a little garlic rubbed into the bread.

That’s it. … ok and maybe some 12 month aged Manchego lol 😂

But when a dish is this simple, there’s nowhere for mediocre ingredients to hide.

Homemade sourdough, toasted just enough to give it some crunch. Beautiful, in-season heirloom tomatoes from a local farm stand, so ripe they practically fall apart when they hit the bread. A generous pour of really good Spanish extra-virgin olive oil. Flaky salt.

It almost seems ridiculous that something so simple can taste this damn good.

Crunchy bread. Sweet, acidic tomato soaking into all those little holes in the sourdough. Fruity, peppery olive oil. Salt bringing the whole thing together.

No tricks. No twelve-step recipe. No pile of ingredients fighting for attention.

Just really good food made from really good ingredients.

I could eat this every day.

#PanConTomate #PaAmbTomaquet #CatalanFood #SpanishFood #Sourdough taken in Dunedin, Florida by @usar505

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4 days ago

Not every search ends in 90 minutes.
Yesterday, we found our subject fast. But the field never promises that. Weather turns. Terrain fights back. A search stretches into the dark — or you reach a patient who can’t move, and now you’re both spending the night.
That’s what Line Two is for.

▪️ LINE ONE — what’s on your body. (yesterday’s post)
▪️ LINE TWO — sustainment in the pack.

This is Line Two: my Eberlestock Bandit — 16 lbs, built to keep me and whoever I find alive and effective long past the point Line One covers. Shelter, water purification, fire, an extended IFAK, comms redundancy, and food. If the mission goes long, this is what keeps me in the game.

Line One keeps me working. Line Two keeps me going.
Every item has a place, and every place has a reason — packed so I can find what I need in the dark, by feel, when it matters most.

📌 Full Line Two gear list in the pinned comment.

That’s the system: two lines, layered so losing one never leaves me empty-handed. 👊

#SearchAndRescue #SAR #LineTwo #Sustainment #Bushcraft

Main compartment
Shelter:
• USGI woodland poncho (sleep under) · 4’×8’ Tyvek (ground cover) · XL contractor bag (stuff w/ duff to insulate) · SOL survival bivy · Mystery Ranch pouch → 6 MSR stakes, 28’ paracord ridgeline, 4–6’ tie-downs, 50’ #36 bankline
IFAK:
• NAR CAT tourniquet · 2 nitrile gloves · triangular bandage · TMS OLAES pressure bandage · Rescue Essentials AirBase pad (sleep/splint) · NAR rolled + flat-folded gauze · HyFin chest seals (2) · Combat Gauze · 28F NPA · mini tweezers · bandaids · eye drops
Water:
• Silcock key · HydraPak 2L + filter · 4 Aquatabs
Food (qt bag):
• 3 almond butter · 3 Frog Fuel protein · 3 DripDrop · 3 instant coffee · 3 Larabars
Fire (Pelican 1040):
• Überleben 1/2”×6” ferro rod + striker · Best Glide magnifier · Gorilla-taped Bic · 3 fire-tab tinder · 12 stormproof matches · steel wool · 3 beeswax candles · 2 citronella tins · fatwood · Vaseline-cottonball tin · sail needle
Also: XL shemagh · road flare · XL biodegradable body wipes
Line One keeps me working. Line Two keeps me going. What’s in your sustainment layer? 👇

Eberlestock Bandit · 16 lbs (Grayl no water)
Top pouch:
• Murphy’s Natural taken in Tampa, Florida by @usar505

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4 days ago

Yesterday, our team ran subject profiling, PLS, and LKP in the field — plotted our points, hit the trail, and located our missing subject in under 90 minutes. 🎯
Results like that start with what’s on your body.
My gear runs in two lines:
▪️ LINE ONE — what’s on your body.
▪️ LINE TWO — sustainment in your pack. (tomorrow’s post)
This is Line One: my Eberlestock Recon bino-harness chest rig. Every item here is immediate-access — navigation, comms, signal, medical, a compass, a blade, the tools I reach for without breaking stride. If I ever have to drop my pack, cache it, or get separated from it, Line One keeps me in the game.
Life-safety rides up front: tourniquet and hemostatic gauze live in the front dangler pouch — the fastest thing I can reach.
This is my workspace. My office. It goes where I go.
And it’s modular by design — when I don’t need binoculars (which is often), they come out and a Rite in the Rain field binder goes in: land-nav tools, quick-reference guides, map pens. The mission dictates the load.
📌 Full Line One gear list in the pinned comment.
Line Two — the sustainment layer — drops tomorrow. Stay tuned. 👊

#SearchAndRescue #SAR #LineOne #EDC #Bushcraft taken in Tampa, Florida by @usar505

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5 days ago

The butterfly series continues — and this one solves a specific problem.

The Retraced Double Alpine Butterfly.

Here’s when you need it: you have hardware with a closed eye — a ring, a plate, a fixed attachment point — and you either don’t have a carabiner available or you don’t want to introduce one into the system. Closed eye means you can’t just clip in. You have to thread.

This knot lets you tie a butterfly directly onto that hardware, with no connector required.

→ Start by tying a standard Alpine Butterfly — but leave yourself a very long loop. Longer than feels necessary. You’ll need every bit of it.
→ Form that loop into a bight
→ Pass the bight through the closed eye of the hardware
→ Bring it back and pass it through the center of the X of the butterfly
→ Flip the bight back over the hardware
→ Tuck it under all the other rope
→ Pull your slack out and pop it exactly like you would a standard butterfly

The result is a butterfly that’s directly retraced onto the hardware — same reliable geometry, same load characteristics, no carabiner in the chain.

Why it matters: Fewer connectors means fewer failure points and fewer things to lose, drop, or run out of. When your hardware inventory is limited or the attachment point simply won’t accept a biner, this knot gets you connected.

Dress it. Set it. Load it with confidence — same as always.

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

📌 Tag a rope tech who needs this one in the toolkit.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #AlpineButterfly #RetracedButterfly #DoubleAlpineButterfly taken in Tampa, Florida by @usar505

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10 days ago

WE’RE HIRING. 🇺🇸

Safety Solutions & Supply is actively seeking certified Confined Space Rescue personnel for a contract in the Charlotte, North Carolina area.

If you hold your CSR certifications, have real operational experience, and know your way around a permit-required space — we want to talk to you.

→ Great pay — this contract compensates properly for the skill set it demands
→ Flexible schedule — work that fits around your existing commitments
→ Potential long-term area contracts in the near future — this isn’t a one-and-done, there’s real runway here for the right people

Confined space rescue is not a job you hand to just anyone. The team standing by when contractors make entry is the difference between a routine maintenance day and a fatality. Safety Solutions & Supply understands that, and they’re looking for people who take it as seriously as they do.

If you’ve put in the work, earned the certs, and you’re in or near the Charlotte area — this is an opportunity worth a conversation.

How to apply:

📧 Reach out directly to Caleb Cook at Safety Solutions & Supply — ccook@solutionsinsafety.com

💬 Or DM DVI Bushcraft & Survival and we’ll point you in the right direction.

Train. Prepare. Rescue. Save Lives.

Know someone qualified? Tag them below or send this their way. Good people are hard to find and word of mouth moves faster than any job board.

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #SafetySolutionsAndSupply #NowHiring #ConfinedSpaceRescue taken in Charlotte, N.C. by @usar505

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16 days ago

Been working on this design. Not sure yet if it ends up on the back of a T-shirt or on one side of a coin — maybe both.

ROA. Rogare · Offerre · Accipere.
Ask · Offer · Accept.

It comes from the Direction of Intention prayer by St. Francis de Sales — a short, foundational prayer traditionally offered at the start of the day or before beginning a new task, dedicating your actions and your struggles to God:

“My God, I give you this day. I offer you, now, all the good that I shall do, and I promise to accept, for love of you, all the difficulty that I shall meet. Help me to conduct myself in a manner that is pleasing to you. Amen.”

This is the cornerstone of Salesian spirituality, and what makes it so powerful is how ordinary it is. It doesn’t require a chapel or a quiet hour. It transforms ordinary daily work — a job site, a training class, a standby, a difficult conversation, a hard climb — into an act of prayer and love.

Three words. Before every task. It reframes the entire day.

So here’s my question for you all — would anyone be interested in a DVI T-shirt with this on the back, or a DVI Coin with this design on it? Let me know in the comments. If there’s interest, I’ll make it happen. 👇

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #DirectionOfIntention #StFrancisDeSales #SalesianSpirituality taken in Tampa, Florida by @usar505

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16 days ago

One rope. One carabiner. Four rescuers. Patient out of the hole.

Today’s confined space rescue refresher for industrial ERT members — and this is the part of the curriculum that doesn’t show up in the 40-hour class.

These folks already have their cert. They’ve got the systems, the mechanical advantage, the textbook answers. Now they get the nuggets — how to get it done when the equipment isn’t there and you’re short on manpower.

The technique: Rescuer is lowered the same way the victim comes out. Thread the rope through the victim’s harness — down the front, under the crotch, up the back, out through the yoke on the back of the chest harness — then pass it back up to the crew.

Topside, split the four legs. One per rescuer. Everyone positions at a corner, close to the hole but safely clear. Squat. Take up slack. Lift with the legs. Then walk slowly backward in unison.

That’s it. That’s the system.

Let’s be honest about what this is: This is not your primary method. This isn’t even your alternate. This is the E in the PACE plan — Emergency. This is what you reach for when the gear didn’t make it up the tower, when half your team is committed elsewhere, when the clock is running and standing around isn’t survivable for the person in the hole.

There are moments in this work where you have to make the call. High risk for high reward. Do you stand around, keep planning, wait for more equipment and more people while the patient deteriorates — or do you get the job done and save a life?

That’s not a decision you want to make for the first time on the incident. That’s a decision you rehearse, understand the tradeoffs of, and train for before you’re standing at the edge of the hole.

Know your primary. Master your alternate. And have a contingency and emergency option in your pocket that you’ve actually practiced.

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

🔗 Link in bio for DVI confined space rescue training for your ERT.

📌 Tag your team lead.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #ConfinedSpaceRescue #TechnicalRescue #IndustrialRescue taken in Crunch Fitness by @usar505

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17 days ago

The Handcuff Knot or California Love Knot…. Not the most glamorous knot in the bag — but when you need it, nothing else will do the job as fast.

In confined space rescue, this one earns its keep as improvised wristlets or anklets for last-resort patient movement. When you’re working a space too tight to package properly, when the geometry won’t allow a litter, when your only option is to physically drag a patient out through a restricted opening — this knot gives you a controlled purchase point on the extremities.

Why it works: Two adjustable loops formed from a single knot, sitting side by side. Slip them over the wrists or ankles, snug them down, and you’ve got a secure connection point that distributes across both limbs rather than cinching down on one.

How to tie it: Fast enough to do under pressure with gloves on. Which is exactly the point — a knot you can’t tie in the dark, in a hole, with a patient in front of you, isn’t a knot you actually have.

Let’s be clear about where this belongs in your decision tree: this is a last resort movement technique. Proper packaging in a litter or full-body device is always the standard when the space allows it. But confined space rescue doesn’t always allow it — and having a tool in your toolkit for the moment the textbook answer isn’t available is what separates a trained rescuer from someone reciting a manual.

Know it. Practice it. Hope you never need it.

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

📌 Tag a rope tech who needs this one in their back pocket.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #HandcuffKnot #KnotTying #KnotWork taken in Polk County by @usar505

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19 days ago

What you bring to the big game comes down to two things: environmental pathology and the patient’s injury or physical pathology.

Today’s confined space standby proves the point. A 200-foot tower climb, followed by entry into an ammonia tank with a single 18-inch opening for ingress and egress — and that opening sits 6 feet off the top of the tower where we’re standing.

Every piece of equipment gets carried all the way up. There is no cart, no elevator, no second trip. What’s on your back is what you have.

That changes everything about how you build your kit.

Full breakdown of gear selection and job roles in the pinned comment below. ⬇️

Ohhh and yes I caught the open screw link and fixed it before making the ascent! lol 😂

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

📌 Tag your rescue partner who needs to see this.

#DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #ConfinedSpaceRescue #TechnicalRescue #IndustrialRescue taken in Polk County by @usar505

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19 days ago

This is what a permit-required confined space actually looks like.

Yesterday’s standby — a power plant in Polk County, Florida, during a scheduled outage for maintenance. Multi-level scaffolding inside a sealed vessel. Limited access through a single rectangular entry portal. Restricted egress. Dark. Hot. Every hazard a confined space can offer, stacked on top of each other.

Look at the second photo. That’s the entry point. That’s the hole a contractor goes through — and that’s the hole a rescuer has to come back out of with a casualty who can’t help themselves.

This is why we teach what we teach.

DVI Bushcraft & Survival delivers Confined Space Rescue courses for Industrial ERT teams throughout Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. Our curriculum is built to NFPA 1670 and NFPA 1006 standards and is fully OSHA compliant — because in this discipline, “close enough” gets people killed.

But standards on paper don’t save lives. Instructors do.

Every course we teach is delivered by instructors with real-world operational experience — over three decades of it. People who have actually made entry, actually rigged a haul system in a space with no room to work, and actually managed a patient package through a portal that barely fits a person, let alone a person on a board.

The statistics on confined space fatalities remain brutally consistent — a significant portion of the dead are would-be rescuers. People who went in without a plan, without monitoring, without training, and without the equipment to get themselves and the victim back out. Good intentions and courage aren’t a rescue plan.

Your ERT deserves better than a checkbox training class. They deserve curriculum built for their actual spaces, their actual hazards, and their actual equipment — taught by people who’ve done the work.

If your facility has permit-required confined spaces, your team needs to be ready before the call comes. Not after.

Deus Vult Illud. God Wills It.

🔗 Link in bio to inquire about Confined Space Rescue training for your team.

📌 Tag the person at your facility who owns ERT training.

DVIBushcraft #DeusVultIllud #ConfinedSpaceRescue #CSR #IndustrialRescue taken in Polk County by @usar505

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