Rescue Diver

Develop Accident Prevention and Management Skills

The PADI Rescue Diver Course is an important and crucial step in expanding your knowledge and experience beyond a purely recreational level. The PADI Rescue Diver rating is a prerequisite for all PADI leadership training (Divemaster, Assistance Instructor,Water Instructor).

The PADI Rescue Diver Program is divided into two easy steps:

KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT:  This portion develops the principals and information you need for preventing and handling dive emergencies. The knowledge development portion is completed through independent study with the PADI Rescue Diver Manual and the PADI Rescue Diver Video, and a review session with your instructor. You need to complete the required reading and all the knowledge review homework pages prior to the class review session. A final exam will be administered during the class review session.

WATER TRAINING:  During thewater training, you'll apply the knowledge you've learned as you develop rescue skills. You'll spend a morning at the "Kiddie Beach" where you'll practice skills in an actual diving environment (without the waves and surge of other beach dive sites). You'll also spend the day on one of the local dive charter boats applying your skills and practicing rescue scenarios. Upon competion of the rescue scenarios, you'll be returning home with your PADI Rescue Diver Certification!.

The following topics will be discussed and practiced:

• self rescue
• diver stress
• recognizing stress
• stress management
• first aid implementation
• first aid procedures
• rescuer function
• managing an emergency
• common equipment problems
• missing diver procedures
• rescuing the responsive and unresponsive diver at the surface and under water
• rescue exits with the reponsive diver
• equipment removal and exits with the unresponsive diver

PADI Rescue Diver Certification Prerequisites:

Course fee - $275, includes:

• PADI Rescue Diver Manual
• Rescue Diver Video
• Instruction Fees
• Wall Certificate and Patch
• PADI Dive Tables
• One Boat Trip to Anacapa
• PADI Rescue Diver Certification Card

Earn College Credit!

The PADI Rescue Diver Course (and many other PADI courses) are recomended for college credit by the American Council on Education (ACE) and meets the educational standards and requirements for credit at college level, even when taught away from a college or university. Ask us for details!

PADI Master Scuba Diver

Pacific Scuba Center
3600 S. Harbor Blvd. / Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard, CA. 93035

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