WHAT'S INVOLVED?​

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The PADI Rescue Diver course teaches you how to deal with dive emergencies, both major and minor. We use knowledge development, rescue training exercises and open water scenarios to teach you how to recognise diver emergencies, as well as techniques which you can use to respond to those emergencies.  

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The Course has three main components usually run over a weekend.

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1. Knowledge Development (Online Study) – Understand and recognise diver emergencies and learn about different rescue techniques.

2. Pool Training – Practice rescue exercises and scenarios in confined water.

3. Ocean Dives – Practice your new skills and all emergency scenarios in the ocean.

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Some of the topics covered during the weekend are:

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• Self-rescue 

• Recognising and managing stress in other divers

• Emergency management and equipment

• Rescuing panicked divers

• Rescuing unresponsive divers

• Search & recovery of missing divers

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COURSE PREREQUISITES

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• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification or equivalent qualification from another training agency.

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• Minimum age of 12 years. Student divers between 12 and 14 earn the PADI Junior Rescue Diver certification, which they may upgrade to PADI Rescue Diver certification upon reaching 15.

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• Current First Aid and CPR qualification.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED?

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• PADI e-Learning 

• Professional Instruction

• Emergency equipment (First-aid kit, oxygen unit, rescue breathing masks)

• Tanks and weights

• Pool Training

• Ocean Dives

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The first day we will be practicing in a local pool followed by training in the ocean the next day out of a dive location in the South or North of the state (depending on which location you booked on). We will be putting your new acquired skills into several rescue scenarios.​​

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