PADI Rescue Diver – challenge yourself

Diving beyond yourself with PADI Rescue Diver

Up to this point, your diving education has rightly focused on you: your buoyancy, your gas consumption, and your enjoyment of the underwater world. The PADI Rescue Diver course introduces a shift to lift your focus from your own dive profile and expand it to encompass your entire environment and the well-being of every diver on your team.

This course will fine-tune your observation skills, teaching you to recognize the subtle, often overlooked signs of stress or discomfort in another diver. You’ll learn to spot a minor equipment issue or a moment of anxiety and offer a simple, reassuring solution before it can escalate into a serious problem.

The reason a certified Rescue Diver can remain calm is because they have a mental toolkit of solutions for nearly any situation. You will learn to think like a rescuer, which truly makes you the diver that everyone wants to follow and the dive buddy that everyone trusts implicitly.

Prepare for your next milestone as a PADI Divemaster

With a PADI Rescue Diver certification in Koh Tao, you have achieved the highest and most respected certification in recreational diving. You now stand at an exciting crossroads where you can evolve into something more as a PADI Professional.

The next milestone on this journey is the PADI Divemaster course. This is the first professional level in the PADI system. As a Divemaster, you’ll learn to guide certified divers, assist instructors with courses, and share your love for the underwater world with people from all over the globe.

The skills and mindset you forged in the Rescue Diver course are the absolute foundation for this next step. If you’re ready to take your journey to the ultimate level, we invite you to explore what awaits you in our PADI Divemaster program here in Koh Tao.

What’s included in our PADI Rescue Diver course?

• PADI Certified Instructor and E-learning Materials
• PADI Rescue Diver Certification (e-card)
• Scuba Diving Equipment
• Scuba Diving Insurance
• Lunches
• Pick-up Service from Main Road (only on Koh Tao)

Our Schedule

*This schedule can be changed due to the weather and other factors

PADI Rescue Diver Course Information

The PADI Rescue Diver course is an intensive, hands-on program designed to build true competence. Through a series of confined water exercises and open water scenarios, you will truly master the skills needed to prevent and manage diving emergencies, including:

• Self-Rescue and Diver Stress Management: You’ll learn to handle common equipment malfunctions, overcome physical challenges, and, most importantly, recognize and manage stress in yourself and other divers before it escalates.
• Emergency Management and Equipment: You’ll learn to develop an Emergency Action Plan for any dive site, know how to use emergency equipment like first aid and oxygen kits, and effectively brief and delegate tasks to other available divers.
• Responding to a Panicked Diver: A panicked diver presents one of the most significant risks. You will master specific techniques to approach and assist a panicked diver, both on the surface and underwater.
• Locating and Surfacing an Unresponsive Diver: In a worst-case scenario, every second counts. You will learn efficient underwater search patterns to locate a missing diver and practice the correct, controlled techniques for bringing an unresponsive, non-breathing diver to the surface.
• In-Water Rescue Breathing: You will practice the challenging but life-saving skill of administering rescue breaths in the water while towing the diver to safety and removing their equipment.
• Exiting an Unresponsive Diver: You’ll learn multiple methods for safely removing an unresponsive diver from the water onto a boat or shore, which is often one of the most physically demanding parts of a rescue.
• Integrated Accident Scenarios: Finally, you will put everything together. The course culminates in realistic, full-scale scenarios where you will manage a simulated dive accident.

Mastering these competencies is what fundamentally changes you as a diver. You will leave this course with a new level of confidence to be a true asset on any dive, anywhere in the world.

Requirements for PADI Rescue Diver Course

• The participant is at least 12 years old at the time of the experience
• You already have at least PADI Adventure Diver certification or equivalent and your last dive is within the past 6 months.
• You hold an EFR Primary and Secondary Care training within the past 24 months.
• The participant is physically and mentally healthy. He/she may want to check out the PADI medical form first for better understanding.

*Please feel free to ask our dive professionals for more detail.

Terms and Conditions

All reservations may not be cancelled. Full payment will be forfeited unless approved under a medical emergency or booked with a free cancellation benefit. For full information, please visit our terms and conditions here.