Rescue

Duration: 3 days

This course expands your knowledge of diving and develops your awareness of other divers and teaches you how to prevent and deal with diving emergencies.

What will I do?

This is a performance based course and involves theoretical and practical exercises on how to handle diving incidents and self-rescue. You will have 5 rescue training dives up to a maximum depth of 30m which will include open water rescue scenarios. The academic topics you will cover are; self rescue, diver stress, diving first aid, emergency management and equipment considerations. The in-water skills you cover will include:

  • Swimming and non-swimming assists
  • Panicked diver responses
  • Recognition and solution to underwater problems
  • Missing diver procedures
  • Surfacing the unconscious diver
  • In-water artificial respiration and equipment removal
  • Exiting and first aid for conscious and unconscious diver
All students must complete a PADI Medical statement, Liability release form and Standard safe diving form prior to starting the course. If the student has any medical condition listed then signed clearance from a diving doctor, valid within 12 months will be required at check-in.

Prerequisites

  • PADI Advanced Open Water and EFR or equivalent **
  • Minimum age: 12 years

** Equivalent AOWD requires certification beyond entry level with at least 20 logged dives showing experience in night, deep and navigation dives. Equivalent to EFR requires an approved course completed in CPR within 24 months prior to starting the Rescue Course.

Additional Charges

  • Manual € 35
  • Certification fee is included
  • Equipment is included

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