Prerequisites
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification
Or a qualifying equivalent
Minimum age: 15 years
Valid first aid and CPR certificate
Medically Fit
Duration
3 Full Days
Plus self-study or eLearning at your own pace
Level
Advanced Level
Designed for experienced Advanced Open Water Divers
This course can be completed directly after your open water diver course and is designed to advance your diving, build confidence and gain experience.
What to Expect
We’ll guide you through each step, so you know exactly what’s coming and feel confident before getting in the water.
Complete Your eLearning
Learn about diver stress, emergency management, rescue procedures and accident prevention.
Review Skills With Your Instructor
Discuss rescue techniques, emergency equipment and how to respond to common diving problems.
Practise Rescue Exercises
Work through skills such as assisting tired, panicked, unresponsive and distressed divers.
Complete Rescue Scenarios
Apply your skills during realistic emergency situations that combine planning, teamwork and decision-making.
Earn Your Rescue Diver Certification
Successfully complete the knowledge development, rescue exercises and final scenarios.
Includes
About This Course
The PADI Rescue Diver course prepares you to deal with dive emergencies, minor and major, using a variety of techniques. Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, you learn what to look for and how to respond. During rescue scenarios, you put into practice your knowledge and skills.
What you will learn:
- How to recognise and manage diver stress
- Self-rescue and accident-prevention techniques
- How to assist tired, panicked or distressed divers
- How to respond to an unresponsive diver underwater and at the surface
- Search techniques for a missing diver
- Emergency management, teamwork and decision-making
- How to handle realistic diving emergency scenarios
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