Rescue Diver Course
Challenging and Rewarding are keywords that best describe the PADI Rescue Diver course.
This course will expand your knowledge and experience level. Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers.
Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence.
Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many recreational divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken.
Examples of items you will cover during your course include:
- Self-rescue and diver stress
- Emergency management and equipment
- Panicked diver response
- In-water rescue breathing protocols
- Egress (exits)
- Dive accident scenarios
With the Rescue course you discover a new dimension of serious fun.
You can start this course after completing the advanced diver course and having 20 logged dives. During this course you will learn about emergency prevention, intervention and management.
The skills you learn in the PADI Rescue Diver program gives you the ability to conquer emergency situations, challenge others to be more aware divers and control a crisis - hopefully before it even occurs -.
Emergency management and prevention, or knowing what to look for and how to react, is a necessary skill for serious divers. Learn to recognize subtle warning signs which can go undetected and turn every day dives into emergency situations. Take the Rescue Diver challenge today.
The course program is divided into knowledge development and open water training. The knowledge development part develops the principles and information you need to prevent and handle dive emergencies.
During the open water training, you’ll apply the knowledge you’ve learned as you develop rescue skills. As you master rescue techniques, you’ll learn to adapt what you’ve practiced.
Most certified Rescue divers look back on their rescue training as one of the most challenging, sometimes demanding, and therefore most rewarding programs they’ve taken.
The subject is serious, but the training is fun.
- Minimum requirements: Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization) and 15 years old (12 for Junior Advanced Open Water Diver)
- Number of dives: two (2) Open Water
- Recommended duration: 3 days
- Study materials: Rescue Diver manual and logbook
