PADI Rescue Diver Course

So far, your dive training has focused on you and your personal skills, to make you a better and more safe diver! Now it’s time to learn how to make your diving more safe and fun for others! In this way, not only will you become a better "buddy", but you will also be more prepared for more serious dive conditions. You will feel more confident and you will know your limits as well as what to do during bad conditions, much better than before. As a Rescue Diver your dive buddies will look-up to you as the natural leader, if there is no professional diver among you.

"Extremely fun" - "The best course PADI has to offer" - "Very fun and exciting" - "A real challenge"

Well, this is how most participants describe this course! And we are unanimous: This is probably the most useful course a recreational diver can take. The Rescue course suits everyone! You don’t have to be big and strong to pass this course. Exercises are adjusted to the individual. This means it can be taken by anybody, old or young!

Through reading and practice - and through exciting roll-play - you will learn to foresee and prevent dive accidents. You will learn how to deal with an accident as or if it occurs. You will practice how to tow a tired diver to shore or a boat, and how to cope with worst case scenarios. The purpose of the course is to give you the necessary knowledge and skills needed in case of an accident! When you know how to, you can use your knowledge in first aid and CPR in real life.

After going through the PADI Rescue course you will be capable to give qualified help to a injured person both on land and in the water, dive related or not.

When you later visit a dive-center, somewhere in the world, to go on a dive trip, rent a tank or fill a tank you will notice the respect it brings to be a Rescue diver, to have reached that level! If you join a trip, you can be sure that the local Divemaster or Instructor thinks it’s great to have a Rescue diver along!

PADI Rescue Diver is an experience for all certified divers and it’s also the first step towards becoming a professional diver. This course is valuable and we hope you never have to use your newly acquired skills in an accident, but you will gain confidence and strength to prevent a serious situation from happening, and we know you will feel safer going into the water.

Reading

The Rescue literature will help you foresee and deal with dangerous situations. Lectures by the instructor will be supplemented by video-tapes.

Practical training

You will go through 12 different exercises in the ocean part of the course.

When you complete these exercises, you will be able to:

1. Help divers that are exhausted and/or struck by panic
2. Do a thorough job during search and rescue operation for a missing diver
3. Use first aid

These methods are learned step by step to be combined into longer exercises toward the end of the course.

Valuable training

Our philosophy is to make all training as realistic as possible. Therefore we spend most of the time during the rescue course in the water. We also emphasize fun during the exercises where we learn different techniques to solve "serious" situations. As in the rest of our courses, the Rescue course can be combined with day-trips or live-aboard. All according to your wishes.

As a certified Rescue Diver you will be qualified to help dealing with dive accidents, and hopefully you will be able to prevent most problems that lead to accidents.

You have to be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver to take the PADI Divemaster course.

To become a certified Rescue diver, you must have completed an international recognized first aid and CPR training program within the last two years. If you don't have that. the PADI Emergency First Response course meet those requirements and can be done in one day.