Course Description: Serious Fun! Learn
to look after yourself and others! PADI’S Rescue Diver
program will build your confidence as a diver, give you
valuable experience in emergency management and prevention
and heighten your awareness of the surrounding environment.
Sections on self-rescue, diver stress, diving first aid,
emergency management, equipment problems will prepare you
to handle almost any emergency whether on the shoreline
or in the water. The PADI Rescue Diver Course is widely
accepted as one of the most challenging, rewarding and fun
dive courses available!
The course is divided into three
parts:
Knowledge Development: Five presentations
Rescue Training Exercise Sessions:
- Self Rescue review
- Exercise 1 – Tired Diver
- Exercise 2 - Panicked Diver
- Exercise 3 - Response from Shore, Boat
- Exercise 4 - Distressed Diver Underwater
- Exercise 5 – Missing Diver
- Exercise 6 – Surfacing the unresponsive diver
- Exercise 7 – Unconscious Diver at the surface
- Exercise 8 – Exiting the unresponsive diver
- Exercise 9 – First Aid for Pressure-related injuries
and Oxygen Administration
- Exercise 10 – Response from Shore/Boat Unresponsive
Diver
Open Water Rescue Scenarios; you will have the opportunity
to put everything you have learned into practice, handling
diving incidents as part of a team.