How would you deal with a diving emergency, such as a panicked diver at the surface or underwater?
What about a diver who surfaces and says that their buddy is missing? What about the care for a
diver with suspected decompression sickness (DCS)?  

Hopefully these situations will never happen to you, but could you deal with them if they did?

The Rescue Diver course is an important progression on from
Advanced Open Water Diver and turns the focus away from
pure dive skills, to those that allow you to deal with diving
accidents and emergencies involving yourself and others.

It also importantly helps you recognise potentially dangerous
situations before they get out of control.

You will learn diver rescue skills and emergency procedure
management. You will complete knowledge sessions and then
during confined water and five open water sessions, you will
perfect what you have learned and discussed, including diver
tows, calming panicked divers, searching for lost divers and how
to surface and resuscitate unconscious divers.

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course key points
prerequisite
Advanced Open Water Diver
Emergency First Response (or equivalent)
minimum
age
15 years
duration
2 pool sessions
5 open water sessions with knowledge development
where
Open water
max.
depth
10 metres
included
All instruction from a qualified PADI Instructor
All air fills
Rescue Diver manual to keep
Certification card and wall certificate
(entry/boat fees where applicable are payable in addition)
cost
£299
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