Rescue Diver

This is the most challenging and rewarding continuing education course you will find! You will be trained to look beyond yourself and consider the safety and well being of other divers and is an exciting way to build your confidence and dive skills.

The Rescue Diver Course is scenario-based and will familiarize you with the fundamentals of SCUBA rescue techniques, ranging from problem recognition and prevention, through the recovery and evacuation of injured divers. The twelve open water exercises conducted in a local lake or quarry are designed to make you a more self-sufficient and aware buddy.

Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. You will be trained in Self-rescue and diver stress, AED and emergency oxygen delivery systems, dive first aid, swimming and non-swimming rescue techniques, emergency management and equipment, panicked diver response, underwater problems, missing diver procedures, surfacing an unconscious diver, in-water rescue breathing protocols, exits, and first aid procedures for pressure related accidents.

Prerequisites: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course*, and the Emergency First Response Course (or equivalent training in CPR). The minimum age for this course is 12.

Tuition: $295; includes all educational materials, certification fees, and the use of a regulator, buoyancy control device, SCUBA cylinders, weight belt with weight, and wetsuit, for all pool sessions and Open Water Certification Dives.  Students only need to provide their own personal snorkeling equipment, consisting of a mask, snorkel, adjustable heel strap fins, and wetsuit boots.

The classroom portion of this course is also available online through PADI Elearning.

Next class: Our next Rescue Diver course will be Saturday & Sunday, May 5-6, 2012. 

*(Or other internationally recognized training agency)