"Challenging and rewarding" best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course. This course expands your knowledge and experience level: Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers.

Although this course is challenging, it is a rewarding way to build your confidence. Rescue Diver training prepares you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies. Many divers say this is the most valuable course they have ever taken.

What do I need to start? You can enroll in the Rescue Diver Course as a certified Open Water Diver and participate in the Rescue Diver knowledge development and rescue training sessions, in confined water only, while working on your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.

Prerequisites For Rescue Diver: You also need to be at least 15 years old (12 for PADI Junior Rescue Diver) and have successfully completed a sanctioned CPR program within the past 24 months.

What will I do? Rescue Diver training will prepare you to prevent problems and, if necessary, manage dive emergencies, such as:

• Self-rescue and diver stress
• AED and emergency oxygen delivery systems dive first aid
• swimming and non-swimming rescue techniques emergency management and equipment
• panicked diver response
• underwater problems
• missing diver procedures
• surfacing the unconscious diver
• in-water rescue breathing protocols
• egress (exits)
• first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
• dive accident scenarios

Who Should Attend: Individuals who want to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers.

Number of Dives: 4 dives to complete the Rescue Diver Course.

Dive Cost: $250 and up. Depending on where you choose to perform your rescue dive skills at a local dive site, such as a lake or a destination dive site, like Hawaii, you will need to complete four dives to recieve your Rescue Diver certification card.