PADI Rescue Diver Course Details

Rescue Diver

PADI Rescue Diver Course

Go further with your diving career or just want to know that you can assist if an incident occurs? Then the PADI Rescue Diver Course is for you!

Challenging and rewarding best describes 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.

The Fun Part

The fun part about this course is rising to challenges and mastering them. Many divers say this is the best course they’ve ever taken. The most fun diving course they have ever taken.

Rescue Diver Training

Rescue Diver Online does NOT replace the skill development and knowledge assessment in a live class with an instructor. You can’t learn and demonstrate diving motor-skills online. These require interaction with an instructor, in the water. There is sometimes a mistaken idea that PADI eLearning allows a diver to fully qualify for a certification online.

PADI online learning does NOT, by itself, lead to certification. It is simply the best way to learn all the theory BEFORE YOUR TRAINING starts. Simply get ahead with the convenience of taking the theory lessons on line and cut down or out your classroom studying.

However, the online environment IS suitable for delivering background knowledge — theory, information and so on — that you apply during live training with your instructor.

PADI Rescue Diver Online delivers the same material that the student gets by reading the PADI Rescue Diver Manual and watching the PADI Rescue Diver Video, in an interactive, self-paced presentation. Many students appreciate the convenience of beginning their learning online. Many also like the integration of reading-hearing-seeing. But, some people still prefer a book and a video — which remain available through the PADI system.

The PADI Rescue Diver course is designed to develop your dive knowledge and skills to effectively perform diver rescues and assists, as well as teach you to manage diving accident situations and apply first aid skills. The rescue course is very much a hands on course, with role-playing to gain the experience needed for most dive incidents.

Whether the student develops knowledge with eLearning or conventional book and video, the subsequent knowledge review, skill development and assessments with a PADI Instructor are the same.

PADI Rescue Diver program develops your knowledge and skills

The PADI rescue Diver program takes 3 or more days to complete and is divided into three main areas.

1. Academic Knowledge Development gained through independent study and classroom presentations or eLearning.
2. Open Water Practical Skills tuition.
3. Open Water Scenario Assessments.

COURSE OUTLINE: The course starts with your pre-course independent study of the Rescue Diver Manual including all quizzes and Knowledge Reviews. Formal course days are divided between academic classroom knowledge development sessions (upon request if not doing independent study), open water skills training, followed by assessment practical application at open water through staged scenarios.

COURSE CONTENT: During this course you will study these topics;-

Self Rescue Techniques
First Aid Equipment
Managing Diver Stress
Emergency Management
First Aid Procedures
Equipment Function
Common Equipment Problems
Recognizing Rescue Situations
Release Function and Problems
Rescuing the Responsive Diver Underwater
Diver Stress
Missing Diver procedures
Rescue Exits with the Responsive Diver
Rescuing the Unresponsive Diver Underwater
Rescuing the Unresponsive Diver at the Surface
Rescuing the Responsive Diver at the Surface

COURSE PRE-REQUISITES: Advanced Open Water Diver Certification or (another scuba training agency with equivalent minimum of 20 logged dives with experience in Night, Deep and Navigation diving.) To complete the PADI Rescue Diver course you must also complete the Emergency First Response Course prior, or have successfully completed a sanctioned course in CPR within the last 24 months prior to the course commencing.

Minimum age: 15 (12 for Junior Divers)*

Emergency First Response

Take a step toward emergency preparedness and meet PADI Rescue Diver prerequisites with Emergency First Response. As one of the foremost international CPR and first aid training companies, Emergency First Response gives you the confidence to respond to medical emergencies — not just in the diving world, but in your every day world with your family, friends, neighbours and co-workers too.

Emergency First Response courses encompass: