Rescue Diver

The PADI® Rescue Diver course will change the way you dive - in the best possible way

PADI Rescue Diver Course

Take your scuba diving skills to the next level with the PADI Rescue Diver Course, a challenging yet rewarding program designed to build your confidence and teach you how to prevent and manage dive emergencies. Whether you’re interested in enhancing your safety skills or preparing for professional-level training, the Rescue Diver Course is an essential step in becoming a more responsible and capable diver.

What You’ll Learn:

The PADI Rescue Diver Course focuses on practical techniques and problem-solving strategies, helping you develop the skills necessary to assist yourself and others in a variety of underwater and surface scenarios. Key skills include:

  • Recognizing and Responding to Diver Stress: Learn how to identify potential problems before they become emergencies.

  • Self-Rescue Techniques: Improve your own safety by mastering self-rescue skills.

  • Rescue Panicked Divers: Gain the confidence to assist a diver in distress.

  • Emergency Management: Understand how to create an emergency action plan and coordinate a rescue response.

  • Search and Recovery Techniques: Learn to locate and bring a missing diver to the surface.

Why Choose the PADI Rescue Diver Course?

  • Enhanced Confidence: Build your confidence by learning to manage and prevent dive emergencies.

  • Valuable Skills for Every Diver: Whether you plan to dive recreationally or pursue professional certification, the skills you gain in the Rescue Diver Course are invaluable for your diving future.

  • Practical Training: Hands-on scenarios and rescue simulations ensure you’re prepared for real-world situations.

  • Prepares You for Advanced Certifications: The PADI Rescue Diver certification is a prerequisite for the PADI Divemaster Course, the first step towards becoming a professional diver.

Who Can Enroll?

To take this course, you must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent) and have completed Emergency First Response (EFR) training within the last 24 months. If you haven’t completed EFR, you can take the course alongside your Rescue Diver training. The minimum age is 12 years old.

Course Duration:

The PADI Rescue Diver Course typically takes 2 to 3 days, combining classroom theory, confined water practice, and open water rescue scenarios.

Course Overview:

  • Rescue Scenarios: Practice real-life rescue techniques in both confined and open water settings.

  • Emergency Management: Learn to create a step-by-step action plan for dive-related emergencies.

  • Stress Management: Develop your ability to handle stressful situations underwater and on the surface.

Quick Course Overview

There are 10 Rescue Exercises and 2 Rescue Scenarios you need to complete in order to become a certified rescue diver

What Scuba Gear Will I Use?

During your dives you will use basic scuba gear including a dive computer. You may also use a compass, a line or reel, throw lines and other specialty gear.

More Info.

  • Please have a look at the PADI Diver Medical before booking any courses.

    Click here for PADI Diver Medical

    If you answer YES to any of the questions on the PADI Diver Medical, you will need to get a medical physician to sign the form to confirm fitness to dive prior to any in-water activities.

    You will not be able to participate in any pool or open water sessions without confirming your fitness to dive.

  • Minimum age: 12

    Rescue Divers certified between the ages of 12-14 earn a Junior Rescue Diver certification. After the diver's 15th birthday will automatically become a Rescue Diver (not Jr. Rescue Diver) certification.

    Course prerequisites:

    Any diver with an Open Water (or Jr. Open Water) Diver certification may enroll in a PADI Rescue Diver course, complete Rescue Diver eLearning and participate in Rescue Exercises in confined water.

    To participate in open water Rescue Exercises and be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver, the student must complete the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive and hold a PADI (Junior) Adventure Diver certification. A PADI (or other qualifying) Advanced Open Water Diver certification also meets this prerequisite.

    Certification also requires CPR and first aid training within the past 24 months.

    If you don't have this training, you can enroll in an Emergency First Response® (EFR) Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) course with your PADI Instructor.

  • PADI eLearning: 8-12 Hours

    Entire course: 3-4 days