PADI Rescue Diver

The Most Challenging Yet Rewarding Course You Will Ever Take

  • Advanced Open Water Divers ready for the next challenge
  • Dive buddies who want to be useful, not helpless
  • Aspiring Divemasters and Instructors (Rescue is required)
  • Dive club members who dive frequently with others
  • Anyone who has ever thought “what if something goes wrong?”
  • Safety-conscious divers

Prerequisite: Advanced Open Water + EFR (CPR/First Aid) within 24 months

Minimum Age: 12 years old

Maximum Depth: Recreational limits (typically shallow for scenarios)

Duration: 2 days

eLearning Available: Yes

Confined Water Dives: Rescue scenarios in pool or shallow water

Open Water Dives: 2 rescue scenarios in open water

“Open Water teaches you to dive. Advanced teaches you to explore. Rescue teaches you to come back.”

Knowledge Development (5 Modules):

  • Module 1: Self-rescue, diver stress, panic recognition
  • Module 2: Emergency management, first aid equipment
  • Module 3: Swimming assists, tow techniques, exhausted diver response
  • Module 4: Missing diver procedures, search patterns
  • Module 5: Unconscious diver response, in-water rescue breathing, equipment removal

Skills You’ll Master:

  • Panicked diver response
  • Exhausted diver tow
  • Missing diver search
  • Unconscious diver at surface
  • Unconscious diver underwater
  • Equipment removal
  • First aid scenarios

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