What is the PADI Rescue Diver course?
Be Rescue Ready and become an important asset in the scuba diving community.
The PADI Rescue Diver course is your next level in your scuba training as a diver, and will help you be prepared for any unforeseen situation that happens before, during or after a dive. You will learn to prevent problems, manage emergencies and provide first aid.
This is a challenging scuba diving course, but without a doubt incredibly rewarding. You will gain confidence and be prepared to handle any situation underwater. Not only will you be a safer diver, but above all, you will be of great help to other people who need your assistance.
Included in PADI Rescue Diver Course
- PADI Rescue Diver E-learning manual
- Dive Insurance
- Small Groups (4:1)
- 2 day schedule
- PADI certification
- Full set of Aqualung rental equipment including a Dive Computer for your course
- Official Isla Tortuga T-shirt
- Best Vibes!
What you learn in your PADI Rescue Diver course
- How to handle situations of stress and anxiety.
- How to identify and respond to potential problems.
- How to provide first aid and CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation)
- How to use the oxygen system and rescue equipment
- How to manage a scuba diving rescue situation
What Diving Skills will you learn?
During the PADI Rescue Diver course you will learn and master the following 10 skills:
Exercise 1 — Tired Diver
Exercise 2 — Panicked Diver
Exercise 3 — Response from shore, boat or dock (responsive diver)
Exercise 4 — Distressed Diver Underwater
Exercise 5 — Missing Diver
Exercise 6 — Surfacing the Unresponsive Diver
Exercise 7 — Unresponsive Diver at the Surface
Exercise 8 — Exiting the Unresponsive Diver
Exercise 9 — First Aid for Pressure-Related Injuries and Oxygen Administration
Exercise 10 — Response from Shore/Boat to Unresponsive (non breathing) Diver at the Surface
Rescue Diver Final Scenarios
Once you have mastered the 10 Rescue skills you will be required to successfully plan and execute two (2) final scenarios
Scenario 1 — Unresponsive Diver Underwater
Scenario 2 — Unresponsive Diver at the Surface
What are the Prerequisites for PADI Rescue Diver course?
- Advanced Open Water Certification: The rescue diver course will require you to have a good command of your diving skills. Being an Advanced Open Water diver will give you the necessary prerequisite buoyancy and underwater navigation skills to enroll on the PADI Rescue Diver course.
- Be in good health. As for every PADI diving course, you will have to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that there are no contraindications with diving. You can find a copy of the latest version of this form at this link.
- Minimum age: You can enroll on the PADI Rescue Diver course from the age of 12, when you will earn a Junior Rescue Diver certification.
- First Aid and CPR Training: You will need to hold a recognized first aid and cardiopulmonary qualification, taken within the past 24 months. We offer the Emergency First Response first aid & CPR course that you can complete prior to starting the PADI Rescue Diver course.
- Experience: Although there is no minimum number of dives required to complete your PADI Rescue Diver, we always recommend that you have a few additional logged fun dives, outside training dives, so you’re comfortable with your buoyancy and other key skills necessary to become a PADI Rescue Diver.
What is the PADI Rescue Diver course schedule?
Our standard course schedule is as follows
- Day 1: Emergency First Response course in the morning. It’s a dry course – no diving involved – and will take most of the first day.
- Day 2: First day of your Rescue Diver. Your diving instructor will show you all the skills that you will have to master and will teach you how to act in case of any eventuality.
- Day 3: Second day of your Rescue Diver. In this case, you will have to be the one to do the exercises, get ready, because we will put you to the test and you will never know what is next!
If you already hold a recognized first aid & CPR qualification, completed within the past 24 months then you will not need to complete day 1 in the above schedule.
**PLEASE BE AWARE**
Like all PADI diving courses the PADI Rescue course is performance based. What this means is you must master every performance requirement. We will work with each student to ensure mastery and what this may mean is the above schedule being extended to allow you the additional time necessary.
Advantages of taking a PADI Rescue Diver course
- Improve your diving knowledge. This course will take your knowledge to the next level. Learning rescue techniques will help you improve your understanding of the risks associated with scuba diving, and will provide you with the necessary tools to prevent and manage potential emergencies.
- Increase your confidence in risky situations. The course equips you with the skills and confidence to handle various underwater and surface rescue scenarios. This confidence boost will benefit not only you but also divers you dive with.
- Be a better dive buddy. Becoming a Rescue Diver means that you will not only be looking out for your own safety, but also that of your dive buddies. We will train you to recognize signs of stress in others and respond appropriately.
- Improve your knowledge of physiology. The Rescue Diver course delves into aspects of diving physiology and stress management, helping you understand how stress factors can affect divers both physically and mentally. This knowledge will be of great help in preventing and managing potentially dangerous situations.
- Get ready to develop your leadership. If you aspire to become a PADI professional or simply want to be an important asset to the scuba diving community, the PADI Rescue Diver course is an essential step after your Advanced Diver course. It will provide you with a solid foundation on which to develop your further training in the diving industry.
Why Choose PADI for Rescue Diver Course?
PADI dive centers must adhere to the highest training standards and customer service levels in the dive industry.
PADI is the most recognized agency worldwide when it comes to recreational diving courses, with hundreds of agencies around the world, PADI is established in more countries than any other agency.
In short, if you go to a small island like Koh Tao in the middle of the ocean and there is a diving school, it is most likely PADI.
PADI is the only training agency whose curriculum is written by educational authors, using tried, tested and trusted learning philosophies adapted for scuba diving.
The PADI system is performance based, not time based.
What this means is you will have to earn your certification, and you can’t buy it!
Please keep in mind that we are going to ask you to do more than other dive centers and agencies. On the bright side this will mean you will receive a higher quality training course and will be much better prepared as a certified scuba diver.
PADI is the only agency that conducts customer satisfaction surveys to ensure that its professionals are meeting the highest standards of education and safety, while other agencies only ask instructors or schools to manage their own standards.
Why should you sign up and do your PADI Rescue Diver course with Isla Tortuga Divers.
- We limit our class size to a maximum of 4 students per Instructor providing you with a personalized and focused training course.
- Our dive boat MV Attawat is comfortable and spacious and as we own our own boat it gives us the flexibility to choose the dive sites that best suit you
- The knowledge development portion of the course can be completed using PADI eLearning program. What this means is once you have completed the registration process and paid your deposit you can get started straight away!
- Completing PADI’s e-learning ahead of time means no classroom on your Rescue Diver course!
- We are a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center and as such all our instructors are trained in-house by our PADI Course Directors. This allows us to vet every staff member to ensure they are teaching to the very highest standards, providing you with a quality and safe experience ….and of course lots of fun!
- We provide you with a dive computer for all your open water training dives at no extra cost!
- We only teach ‘diving with dive computers’ on all our PADI diving courses are in line with the latest technology and educational principles.
- As an Aqualung Partner Center all our diving equipment passes the most rigorous quality and reliability tests.
Last, but without doubt the most important reason for you to contact us and complete your PADI Rescue Diver course with Isla Tortuga Divers is we guarantee that you will learn to dive with a smile and that you will be left wanting more!
