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PADI Rescue Diver Course
- Take the Total Master Scuba Diver Challenge.
- Become a Total Rescue Diver.
- Rescue & First Aid training schedule: 2008 or 2009.
- Course price list.
- Check our Rescue Diver course photo album.
- General information on our training programs.
- Check the other training programs offered at Total Diving.
The Rescue Diver course is about better control and caring - for your buddies and for yourself. It's also about building confidence and feeling more comfortable in your diving activities.
When you first learned to dive in the PADI Open Water Diver course, you focused primarily on yourself and mastered basic knowledge and skills for taking care of yourself underwater. In the Advanced Open Water Diver course, your focus broadened to include the environment in a variety of situations. Now, in this Rescue Diver course, you're about to enter the next stage, in which your focus broadens further to include other divers.
And it's not just about managing emergencies... A significant part of the course is about preventing them from happening.
What will I do?
Before we do a giant stride off our dive boat, we will spend 5 evenings discussing diving emergency theory in one of our multimedia classrooms. Each one of these evenings is followed by a pool practice. Each week, we'll introduce you to new technics to prevent or manage dive emergencies.
Then, we meet for a week-end of serious fun at Total Diving St-Zotique. We will practice shore and boat diving emergencies.
It's a week-end you will never forget because the nature of the course makes it a socialization week-end as much as a diving week-end!
We will cover:
- Self-rescue and diver stress
- AED and emergency oxygen delivery systems
- Diving 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
Are there any special requirements?
The minimum age for training is 12 years old and there’s no maximum!
To start this course, you need a PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization).
However, you need to have completed your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization) before the rescue diver week-end of open water exercices.
You must also have up to date CPR and First Aid training prior to our 2nd pool session. This training is automatically included for you if you take the Total Rescue Diver program.
What do I need to start?
We will provide you a professional instructor, the dive boats and your certification card.
We will also supply air cylinders and weights. You need to supply the rest of the diving gear. For comfort, enjoyment and safety, we recommend that you acquire your own gear during the Open Water Diver course. If not, you can get a 20% rebate from our rental department for renting gear to participate in a Total Diving course.
You also need to purchase the course manual, unless you are registered in the Total Rescue Diver program.
How long will it take?
5 evenings of theory and pool practice followed by one week-end of shore and boat diving at Total Diving St-Zotique. Please check the schedule in the right margin of this page.
Can I get private instruction?
Yes! Whatever your crazy hours, our instructors are willing and ready to accommodate. However, because of the nature of this course, you will benefit much more from your training if you join a team of rescue divers.
Why Total Diving ?
We give you the knowledge & skills necessary to become a self-reliant, safe and capable rescue diver. Our professionals set the standards for dive training with no compromise.
Furthermore... Take a look at our Total Rescue Diver program... It's real serious fun!
How much is the course?
399$. It’s a top notch rescue diver course using our on-site in-door pool and our dive resort facilities and charter boat in St-Zotique.
However, we strongly recommend that you do not pay that 399$ amount... We suggest that you have, instead, a serious look at the Total Rescue Diver program - designed by professional divers, for your benefit.
I have more questions...
Just give us a call or stop by. In Montreal, we are open pretty much all the time. In St-Zotique, it depends on the season.
At either place, we always have coffee ready for you!
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