Enjoy the challenge of one of PADI’s most rewarding and greatest confidence-building courses as you become a certified PADI Rescue Diver in Roatan. This is a PADI certification course that some might say is “serious fun.” And will develop you to not only be a safer diver, but to be a better dive buddy as you learn how to prevent and manage dive-related emergencies.
Step out of your comfort zone and challenge yourself to an experience that will make you mentally and physically stronger as a diver. Sharpen your senses, your knowledge and your diving techniques.
What you’ll learn
In the PADI Rescue Diver course, you will learn how to safely and confidently manage the following situations:
- Self-rescue situations such as cramp release, using an alternate air source, overcoming vertigo and reestablishing sense of direction
- Assisting a tired diver at the surface
- Assisting a responsive diver in distress both underwater and at the surface from the shore, boat or dock
- Rescuing a panicked diver
- Quickly and efficiently searching for a missing diver
- Surfacing an unresponsive diver from under water and performing rescue procedures at the surface
- Administering first aid and emergency oxygen
As a prerequisite to the PADI Divemaster certification, when you become a PADI Rescue Diver, you’ll climb one step closer to the world of professional diving.
Before you start your PADI Rescue Diver training
To become a PADI Rescue Diver, you must have completed Emergency First Response Primary & Secondary Care – or an equivalent CPR training course. You also need to have your Adventure Diver or Advanced Open Water diver certification, with the latter recommended.
If you want to get a glimpse of what the Rescue Diver course is like, you can choose to do a Rescue Adventure dive as part of your Advanced Open Water or Adventure Diver course.
PADI Rescue Diver Certification
EFR + Rescue Diver Bundle - $20 Savings
What You'll Learn
Enhanced safety, diving emergency prevention and management, rescue techniques and how to apply First Aid & CPR techniques
What's Included:
Instruction, equipment and Rescue Scenario Open Water Dives
What You Achieve:
Rescue Diver Certification
Requisites:
12 years or older, PADI Adventure Diver certification or equivalent from a recognized agency, current EFR certification or equivalent CPR + First Aid certification from a recognized agency obtained with the previous 24 months and completed PADI Medical Questionnaire.
