The
PADI Rescue Diver program develops your knowledge and skills so you
can effectively perform diver assists and rescues, manage diving accident
situations and render first aid. The program is an important step
in expanding your knowledge and experience as a diver. PADI Rescue
Diver (or equivalent) certification is also a prerequisite for all
PADI leadership programs.
Self-rescue and diver stress,
diving first aid,
emergency management and equipment considerations,
swimming and nonswimming assists
panicked diver response,
underwater problems,
missing diver procedures,
surfacing the unconscious diver,
in-water artificial respiration, egress (exits),
first aid procedures for pressure related accidents,
dive accident scenarios.
After this course you will be ready to move on the professional ladder as a Dive Master Candidate on the PADI Dive Master Course