The Padi Rescue | Diver Course.pdf

If you are ready to stop hoping nothing bad happens and start knowing you can handle it, go take the Rescue Diver course. It will be the best $400 and two weekends you ever spend in the water. Contact your local PADI Dive Shop to review the Rescue Diver Crewpack (including the manual and eLearning code) and schedule your confined water sessions.

As the manual states: "The goal is to keep diving fun and safe. A rescuer is just a prepared diver." The PADI Rescue Diver Course.pdf

Panicked divers are dangerous. They will climb you, push you under, and rip your regulator out. You learn the "Panic Diver Defense" approach—how to approach from behind, establish buoyancy control for them, and de-escalate the situation. If you are ready to stop hoping nothing

You cannot save someone if you are drowning. The course begins with you learning how to handle your own emergencies: cramp removal, exhausted diver tows, and entanglements. If you can’t fix your own mask or control your own panic, you are a liability, not a rescuer. As the manual states: "The goal is to

Most Rescue Diver courses link naturally with the Emergency Oxygen Provider specialty. You learn how to assemble an oxygen unit and administer 100% oxygen to a suspected decompression illness (DCI) victim. The "Panic Curve" and Realism Unlike the sterile environment of Open Water drills, Rescue Diver scenarios are designed to be chaotic. Your instructor will splash your mask, shut off your air, or simulate an unresponsive diver while you are trying to navigate a current.