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PADI Scuba diving courses in the warm Caribbean waters of the Dominican Republic

Rescue Diver

How do you take a subject like accident prevention and management and turn it into fun? Call it the PADI Rescue Diver program!

The PADI Rescue Diver course develops your knowledge and skills so you can effectively perform diver assists and rescues, manage diving accident situations and render first aid. The program is an important step in expanding your knowledge and experience as a diver. PADI Rescue Diver (or equivalent) certification is also a prerequisite for all PADI leadership programs.

To get into the PADI Rescue Diver program, you’ll need to be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water or Advance plus (or equivalent) and must be at least 15 years old. The PADI Junior Rescue Diver program is available if you’re between the ages of 12 and 14 and hold a PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver or Advanced Plus (or equivalent) rating.

You’ll also need to have successfully completed the PADI EFR course or a sanctioned program in CPR within the past two years. The PADI Rescue Diver program covers:

  • self-rescue and diver stress
  • diving first aid
  • emergency management and equipment considerations
  • swimming and non swimming assists
  • panicked diver response
  • underwater problems
  • missing diver procedures
  • surfacing the unconscious diver
  • in-water artificial respiration
  • egress (exits)
  • first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
  • dive accident scenarios.

All of these topics are covered in the PADI Rescue Diver Manual and Rescue Diver Video.

The course takes place over approximately five days. And typically days 1 - 3  are spent covering the academic topics together with completing the 10 confined water exercises listed above. The last two days are where you combine all the skills and academic knowledge gained over the previous days into two simulated dive accident scenarios.

Course cost : $425 

Rescue and EFR : $475

  • Builds confidence in your own 'self rescue skills'
  • Turns your attention towards other divers which prepares you for leadership level training
  • Prerequisite for PADI Divemaster and Master Scuba Diver
 Other optional costs: Rescue Diver crew pack

This page was last updated on 06 June 2008