PADI Rescue Diver Course

The PADI Rescue Diver course develops your ability to identify and respond to problems and diving incidents that may occur in various environmental conditions. It develops your ability for self-rescue, and techniques to help others in diving emergencies.

Prerequisites:

• Have a PADI  Adventure Diver certification but must of completed the Underwater Navigation dive (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)
• Hold a current first aid and CPR certificate within the previous two years (Don't worry if your not current as we can combined the two courses in one).
• Due to site rules minimum age is 12
  • Children age 12 to 15 will be rewarded the PADI Junior Rescue certification.
• All students must fill in a PADI Medical questionnaire prior to participation and if need be get a doctors ok.

What you learn:

The PADI Rescue course consists of the following:

• Self rescue
• Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
• Emergency management and equipment
• Rescuing panicked divers
• Rescuing unresponsive divers

Within your Rescue course you will:

• Complete 5 knowledge development segments.
• Demonstrate skills from the self-resuce review either in confined or open water.
• Demonstrate skills from Rescue Exercises 1-10 in open water.
• Participate in Rescue Scenarios 1 and 2.
• Prepare an emergency assistance plan for dive site.

Course cost and duration:

PADI Rescue Diver: £220 which will run over 3 days.
PADI Rescue and Emergency First Response combined: £280 which will run over 4 days.
The cost of the course includes materials, certification, entrance onto site and full kit hire.