What You Need to Know About the Rescue Diver Course
For most Dive Instructors and Divemasters, the Rescue Diver course is remembered as the most fun course of all dive courses. This course, along with the Emergency First Response course, provides divers with confidence in preventing and handling dive-related emergencies.
The Rescue Diver course, highly appreciated, provides the physical and mental preparation essential to get you ready to prevent, anticipate, and, if necessary, handle any diving accident. Because the course focuses on rescue skills, this is a challenging course but not requiring special preparation.
The course consists of three main parts: The development of theoretical knowledge, training sessions, and rescue scenarios in a natural environment that simulate diving incidents.
During this course, you will learn the principles and techniques you will need to avoid, anticipate, and handle diving emergencies, recognize diver stress or equipment problems. You will learn to evaluate the situation and correctly react in administering first aid and applying the life-saving and first aid procedures on conscious or unconscious victims, on the surface and underwater.