Once you gain the PADI Open Water Certification the journey has not ended it’s only just beginning.
The next step is usually the PADI Advanced Open Water course, a good fun course that expands your knowledge and experience.
PADI Rescue Diver Course brings you into the heart of the diving community emphasizing not just safe diving but enabling you to manage and assist with emergencies and medical scenarios, not just for others but for you and your buddy.
The paths now diverge. You can follow the professional path into PADI Dive Master and PADI Instructor or increase your own dive knowledge with the various specialty courses…. The choice is yours.
PADI learning is great fun, challenging and the more you learn about diving the more you recognize that there is even more to learn.
PADI Rescue Diver
The four day Rescue course is a very important step in expanding your knowledge and experience. As with all PADI courses, it is ‘performance’ based and involves classroom, confined water and shore/boat skill development sessions followed by open water training.
You will learn Self-rescue and diver stress, diving first aid, emergency management, equipment considerations, tired diver, panicked diver, response from shore or boat with both a conscious and unconscious victim, distressed diver, surfacing an unconscious diver, unconscious diver at the surface, first aid for pressure related injuries, underwater search scenarios, response and management scenarios.
Proof of current EFR and first aid training is required before commencement of the course.