The PADI Rescue Diver course is where you learn to respond to diver emergencies from a stressed panicked diver to unresponsive divers in life-threatening situations.
When we dive a massively useful skill to have to be be able to calm buddies down if they are stressed and to be of use during the unlikely event of a dive emergency. You will also find out that your awareness as a diver is massively increased following the course and you pay attention to your environment and safety considerations a lot more.
Many divers cite the PADI Rescue Diver course as the most rewarding program they have done.
The course is broken down into three segments, knowledge development, confined water (in a swimming pool) training, and open water dives.
Duration
The PADI Rescue Diver course is run over 3 days with pool training on day 1, refreshing skills in open water and beach scenarios on day 2 and open water boat scenarios on day 3.
Who is it For?
The PADI Rescue Diver course is open to divers from open water level who have completed a navigation adventure dive so it is better to start from PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent certification from another organisation. You will also need to be current first aid and CPR certified.
Course Outline
The PADI Rescue Diver course starts with you completing the eLearning for PADI Rescue Diver. You will then do a pool session with a PADI Instructor where you will learn the different rescue skills and techniques. Following on from this you will go and practice these different skills in an open water environment in the ocean. Once you are comfortable with all the skills you will then put the skills into practice with some rescue scenarios.
Medical Information
All participants must meet medical questionnaire requirements and some conditions or medications may prevent you from diving. Check the PADI Diver Medical: Participant Questionnaire to see if you meet the requirements before booking.
What is Included
✔. PADI eLearning for Rescue Diver
✔. Pool rescue training session
✔. 3-5 dives in the ocean with an instructor
✔. Equipment rental
✔. Fruit, water and snacks on the boat
✔. Transfer from Diani hotels
Itinerary
eLearning
Completing the knowledge development section, starts before you begin the course and requires you to complete the PADI Online learning for the PADI Rescue Diver Course. This can be accessed via the PADI Library app or via the PADI website.
PADI’s cutting-edge digital learning leads the world in diver education and enables you to complete the knowledge development in the comfort of your own home. You can take notes in the app to discuss with your PADI Instructor any concepts which you don’t understand. Assessment of learning is done via quick reviews at the end of every section in the online learning, which you must get correct to proceed so its sure you understand.
Pool Training
Your PADI Instructor will get you to work through each rescue skill, step by step. You will start from basic skills working your way up to putting all skills together in full scenarios.
The PADI Rescue Diver course addresses both self-rescue situations when. you have to help yourself and assisting other divers both responsive, and unresponsive, right through to full resuscitation scenarios.
This is done in the confined water environment to give you optimal conditions to learn, before you go out into real world rescue conditions.
Ocean Dives
On days 2-3 you will be putting what you have learned in the pool into practice. Your PADI Instructor and assistants will put together surface and underwater scenarios for you to demonstrate your rescue skills. Such scenarios include missing diver, surfacing unresponsive diver, a panicked diver underwater and surface, rescue breathing and CPR, and managing a rescue. Once you have completed all the performance requirements you will be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver.
Where Will I Dive?
Depending on which option you have selected your PADI Discover Scuba Diving try dive experience will take place either on a single dive inside the Diani lagoon. Or for those who want to experience the main coral reefs of Diani then there is the 2 dive option which is done outside of the lagoon on the selected dive sites of the day.
