Rescue Diver Course

What is a Rescue Diver Course?

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Don’t panic the rescue diver course is here! Diving is statistically spoken a very secure sport. In fact there are more accidents in mini golf than recreational diving. Because diving went through a long history of making the sport more save and attractive to a wide variety of people. You could do a Bubble make with 8 years, Open Water with 10 and still learn to dive with 99 years. So the safety standards are very high. But obviously there is always a rest risk left. Mostly human error. And that is exactly why you would learn in a Stress and Rescue course how to prevent dangerous situations.

What is a good rescue diver

A good rescue diver is one who never has to help underwater but eliminates all positional danger before an accident can happen. So we would highly recommend the Stress and Rescur Course to all of the diver who have mastered their own skills enough to now be able to look after others.

Knowing how to help.

Help them and assist them to avoid problems underwater. Always keep in mind. A problem is easily solved on the boat but could turn into a bigger problem once you are underwater. But should that unlikely event happen, than you should be able to help others in a professional manner. Keep a cool head and solve the problems before they get out of hand. The Stress and Rescue Course is a very interesting course. It is also after the Advanced Adventure course again one that is more academic intense due to the fact that now you do not have to develop your own diving skills anymore but start to look after other diver. See and identify potentional problems and find a solution. The Stress and Rescue Course is the first step towards a very skillful and responsible diver. Also a step that has to be mastered if you would want to become a Dive Master or Dive Instructor.

Summery of what you will learn in the Stress and Rescue Course

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Only thinking about the scenario that a diver gets into trouble underwater is not a pleasant one. What if a diver doesn’t react to signals or touch anymore? What if your dive buddy looks at you with wide open eyes? How to you recognize panic? We can only again underline that 99% of the dive related accidents underwater can be prevented if the rescue diver pays attention to the dive buddy before the dive. Most signs of stress, afraid, tiredness are clearly viable before the dive. Your body talks a lot? Is very quiet? Moments are jerky? Nervous assembling the equipment? All that are signs that the diver is not feeling comfortable.

Schedule of the course:

Day 1 classroom: 9:00 Learning about the most common mistakes that lead to accidents in diving.

Day 1 boat: 11:30 Location and how to use the oxygen and first aid kit on the boat. Searching for a missing diver, learning about the use of different underwater search pattern. Learning how to bring an unconscious diver to the surface back to the boat. Learning how to bring the diver onto the boat. Learn how to proceed with CPR and first Aid.
Day 2 classroom: 9:00 debriefing about the practical part yesterday afternoon and final exam.

Day 2 boat: 11:30 final scenario. Practicing all separate parts from yesterday into one rescue scenario.

Skills to learn

Obviously the main priority is to develop a good sense for different situation and the right aproch. It does not help if the rescue diver turns from the helper into a victim because he did not access the situation. All in all is the rescue diver a very interesting course and if your are a good one you might never need the knowledge. But if you do need it it will be easy for you to make the right decisions.