Until now, you have been learning about improving your personal dive skills. As a Rescue Diver, you start to look beyond yourself and consider the many other things that affect the safety of the dive for you and your dive buddies. You learn how to prevent and, if necessary, manage a diving accident,and management.
Proof of current EFR or equivalent first aid training is required before commencement of the course.

Rescue Diver Course content

Like any emergency training, PADI Rescue Diver begins with prevention: how to judge all of the factors surrounding the dive and prevent problems.

Accidents do happen though. And the PADI Rescue Diver course will prepare you to manage diving emergencies, in case you ever need to. You’ll cover:

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