Fine tune your underwater diving skills

PADI Rescue Diver.

Fine tune your underwater diving skills

Learn crucial skills to help in any emergency situation. Become a more confident diver and master your competency to handle even the most challenging scenarios underwater.

PADI Rescue Diver Course

Learn crucial skills to help in any emergency situation.

The PADI Rescue Diver course is described by most divers as demanding, but also extremely rewarding. The main focus during the course is on dive safety, from building your awareness and confidence by preventing problems that may occur underwater, to learning how to deal with dive accidents and injuries when they occur. The PADI Rescue Diver course teaches how to take care of your own safety and the safety of your diving buddies. Its a practical course using scenario based practice where at the end, you’ll feel much more in control of any underwater situation.

Essential information about PADI Rescue Diver Course

  • Duration of the course: 2 – 3 days

  • Price of the course: 28 900 PHP

    The price includes:
    – PADI Rescue Diver eLearning
    – Pool practice sessions
    – Unlimited open water dives
    – Rental of the full set of diving equipment for the duration of the course
    –     Free lunch during course days
    – Free Log Book and T-Shirt
    – Free coffee, tea and water on the boat and in the dive shop
    – Free WIFI
    – Certification fee

  • Prerequisites before starting the course:

    – 12 years old (for kids aged 12 to 14 the maximum depth is 21 meters / 70 feet)
    – PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent from different organization)
    –     EFR Primary and Secondary Care training within 24 months (training may be completed along with PADI Rescue Diver Course)

  • Course modules

    – Individual diving theory study using eLearning platform
    – Self-Rescue skills either in confined or open water
    – 10     Rescue Exercises Skills 1–10
    –     Rescue Scenarios 1 and 2 in open water
    – E    mergency assistance plan for a dive

Benefits of taking PADI Rescue Diver Course with Dive Pro Career

Private Instructor

Whenever you are alone or with a group of friends – you’ll get your private instructor. No groups!

Easy eLearning

Master dive theory at your own pace and in comfortable environment. PADI eLearning platform lets you study from any place in the world.

Best Diving Facilities

Our 5 Star PADI Dive shop is equipped with one of the best facilities to make your diving logistics as easy as possible.

What will you learn during PADI Rescue Diving Course?

The training consists of two parts: theoretical and practical.

Theoretical part

The main topics discussed in the theoretical part are:

  • The psychology of rescue
    How to behave in sudden accidents and emergency diving situations. Why the action of “stop, think, act” is so important to effectively deal with a diving accident. Why solving diving problems begins with understanding the behaviours that may be their cause or effect. These topics will be discussed comprehensively in order for you, a future rescue diver to have more understanding and to be able act calm whilst providing assistance in the event of an emergency.

  • Predicting and preventing diving accidents
    Discussion in the causes of emergency diving situations resulting from inadequate preparation or maintenance of equipment, psychological aspects and the environment in which we will be diving.

  • First aid for diving injuries
    Introduction to the types of diving injuries that can occur and first aid measures appropriate to them. In particular, injuries caused by underwater creatures and injuries related to the effects of the underwater environment on the human body (decompression sickness, pressure injuries).

  • Emergency assistance plan for the location where the course is being held
    This is a written document in which a rescue action plan is prepared, containing all important information (e.g. telephone numbers, location of first aid equipment, address of the nearest hyperbaric chamber) required to act in an emergency.

Practical part

The practical part consists of 10 rescue exercises and 2 scenarios.

Before starting the exercises, you’ll have to master self rescue skills: cramp release, establishing positive buoyancy at the surface, controlling the airway, using an alternative air source, overcoming vertigo and reestablishing sense of direction.

Rescue exercises:

  • Tired diver

  • Panicked diver

  • Response from shore, boat or dock (responsive diver)

  • Distressed diver underwater

  • Missing diver

  • Surfacing the unresponsive diver

  • Unresponsive diver at the surface

  • Exiting the unresponsive diver

  • First aid for pressure-related injuries and oxygen administration

  • Response from shore/boat to unresponsive (nonbreathing) diver at the surface

Rescue scenarios are a simulation of a diving accident. By combining elements of previously practiced skills, the rescue diver carries out the entire rescue operation from the moment it occurs to the arrival of rescue services. The course covers two scenarios:

  • Unresponsive diver underwater
    The scenario begins when a diver is reported missing. The search site must be identified, then a search operation must be organised, the diver must be found, and lastly the diver must be brought to the surface.

  • Unresponsive diver on the surface
    There is an unresponsive and non-breathing diver on the surface. Assess the situation, tow the injured person to shore or a boat whilst giving rescue breaths and removing equipment, exit the water, and perform CPR

Have any questions?

If you require more details about the course, schedule, prices or you want to sign up – feel free to contact us.