RESCUE DIVER COURSE

WHAT'S INCLUDED

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• PADI Rescue Diver Manual

• Rental of all scuba equipment (including dive computer)

• PADI Certification

• FREE pick up from Pier upon arrival to Koh Tao

• Amazing dive shop location

• Training dives and scenario practice

• Free WIFI at the dive centre

• Tea/coffee/water and fresh pineapple on the boat

 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

 

The Rescue diver course is designed to teach you many new and exciting skills in a way that builds confidence through repetition and practice.  You will begin with the course with knowledge development taught via videos and interactive classroom presentations.  Next we take you into shallow water to put the theory into practice, finally we test all your newly learned skills with real life scenarios in open water. 

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KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT

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During your knowledge development we focus on trying to prevent emergencies from happening but also how to deal with them if they do. Topics covered in this part include.

 

• Stress – what causes it and how to remove it.

• Identifying divers in distress underwater and at the surface

• Rescue situations and correct procedures 

• Equipment problems

• Injury management and first aid

• Missing diver

• Emergency action plan

• Scene management and incident reports

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SHALLOW WATER LEARNING

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The section begins with a review of self-rescue skills, ensuring your comfortable helping yourself in a possible emergency; we then introduce the following exercises, your instructor will give clear concise demonstrations allowing students to practice and master each skill before moving onto the next.

 

• Tired Diver

• Panicked Diver

• Response from shore boat or dock

• Distressed diver underwater

• Missing diver

• Surfacing unresponsive diver

• Unresponsive diver at the surface

• Exiting the unresponsive diver

• First aid for pressure related injuries & Oxygen administration

• Response from shore/boat to unresponsive diver at the surface

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RESCUE SCENARIOS

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The final part of the course is to test all your new skills and knowledge with 2 rescue scenarios out in the open water. Your instructor will make these as realistic as possible, expect them to be challenging but a lot of fun at the same time

 

Scenario 1 Unresponsive Diver Underwater-Search to locate a missing diver during an accident, Interview victims buddy, organize an effective search and bring unresponsive diver to the surface.

 

Scenario 2 Unresponsive Diver at the Surface – respond to a unresponsive non breathing diver, evaluate, tow give rescue breaths, remove equipment, exit and provide CPR