Rescue Diver course

🚨 PADI Rescue Diver Course – Build Confidence, Save Lives

The PADI Rescue Diver course is one of the most rewarding and empowering programs in scuba diving. It teaches you how to prevent problems, respond to emergencies, and assist fellow divers in need—all while sharpening your confidence and leadership underwater.

Despite its serious name, this course is challenging, exciting, and a lot of fun!

🧠 What Is the PADI Rescue Diver Course?

This advanced training program prepares you to recognize and respond to diving emergencies—both minor and major. You’ll learn:

• How to manage stress in yourself and other divers

• Emergency oxygen administration techniques

• Self-rescue skills

• Assisting panicked or unresponsive divers

• Surface rescue scenarios

• Underwater search and recovery basics

• Equipment issue troubleshooting

Through realistic scenarios, hands-on practice, and instructor-led training, you’ll develop the mindset and skills of a proactive dive leader.

🔧 What You’ll Learn

The course includes 6 open water dives with 10 rescue exercises such as:

• Assisting a tired diver at the surface

• Rescuing an unresponsive diver underwater

• Providing rescue breaths while towing

• Exiting an unresponsive diver

• Managing missing diver situations

• Emergency action planning

Each session combines theory, practice, and scenario-based training to fully prepare you for real-life dive incidents.

📚 Prerequisites

To enroll, you must:

• Be certified as a PADI Adventure Diver or Junior Adventure Diver, with a completed Underwater Navigation dive

• Have completed EFR Primary and Secondary Care (or qualifying CPR/First Aid training) within the past 24 months

• Be at least 12 years old

• Be in good physical condition and comfortable in the water

If you haven’t completed EFR yet, we can combine it with your Rescue Diver training. Just ask when you book!

📅 Course Overview

🧳 What to Bring

• Your towel

• Your dive logbook

• Your previous diving certifications (Adventure Diver & EFR)

• Any personal dive gear if preferred (optional)

✅ What’s Included

• ✔️ PADI Rescue Diver eLearning access

• ✔️ Instructor-led practical sessions

• ✔️ Emergency rescue drills & scenarios

• ✔️ Dive equipment rental (if needed)

• ✔️ Certification upon successful completion

EFR (Emergency First Response) training can be added if you haven’t completed it already.

🌍 Why Take the Rescue Diver Course?

• Boosts your confidence and preparedness

• Teaches how to protect yourself and others

• Great stepping stone to Divemaster or professional levels

• Widely recognized and respected in the dive community

• Makes you a more self-sufficient, calm, and aware diver

📞 Ready to Take the Challenge?

Step up your skills and make a difference underwater. This course could one day save a life—including your own.

👉 Contact us to book or email us at info@divenemo.com