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
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.
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.
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, neighbors and coworkers too.
Emergency First Response courses encompass:
- CPR for adults, children and infants
- First aid for adults, children and infants
- Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training
- The Emergency First Response Instructor and Instructor Trainer courses
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