Padi Rescue Diver

How do you take a subject like accident prevention and management and turn it into fun? Call it the PADI Rescue Diver program!

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.

To get into the PADI Rescue Diver program, youll need to be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water DiverorAdvanced Plus Nitrox(or equivalent) and must be at least 15 years old. The PADI Junior Rescue Diver program is available if youre between the ages of 12 and 14 rescue oxygen and hold a PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver or Advanced Plus Nitrox (or equivalent) rating.

You will also need to have successfully completed the PADI Emergency First Responder Program or a sanctioned program in CPR within the past three years. The PADI Rescue Diver program covers:

self-rescue and diver stress

diving first aid
emergency management and equipment considerations
swimming and non-swimming 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.

All of these topics are covered in the PADI Rescue Diver Manual and Rescue Diver video. We offer classes 7 days of week.

Rescue Diver Online

The PADI Rescue Diver course is the newest addition to the PADI eLearning family. Rescue Diver Onlinegets you started right away and let's you learn at your own pace and in your own time.Start Now!

Dixie Divers is now offering lodging for out of town guest. Lodging is within walking distance of the beach, dive shop and the dive boat ( Lady Go Diver). For only $20.00 a person per day,(max two tenants). Please click here for more information.