If you’re a PADI (Junior) Advanced Open Water Divers (min 12 years old) and have completed your Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive, you’re welcome to step up and enroll in an PADI Rescue Diver course.

You also need to have Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) (or equivalent) training within the past 24 months. If you don't have a valid first aid certification, you can take both courses with The Dive Bus – and your Underwater Nav dive - and save $$$!

You should be a confident diver, fit and healthy enough to handle some fairly strenuous activity including tired diver tows. If your buoyancy isn’t that great, take your PADI Peak Performance Buouancy Adventure dive with The Dive Bus, and be amazed at what that does for your confidence in the water.

The PADI Rescue Diver course prepares you to deal with dive emergencies, minor and major, using a variety of techniques. Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, you learn what to look for and how to respond.

You’ll put your knowledge and skills into practice during various rescue scenarios including:

• Self rescue
• Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
• Emergency management and equipment
• Rescuing panicked divers
• Rescuing unresponsive divers

The PADI Rescue Diver course gives you:

• some great reasons to keep on diving and a lot of great ways to keep your diving fun –and safe
• additional dive skills and experiences
• additional supervised dives
• credit towards your prestigious PADI Master Scuba Diver rating...

Once you're a PADI Rescue Diver, you're well on the way to the highest recreational diving rating: PADI Master Scuba Diver.

In addition to the certifications you've already got on your way to Rescue Diver, you'll need 5 PADI specialties under your weight belt.

Alternatively, you'll be starting to see situations and environments from the perspective of a PADI professional so why not 'Go Pro' and take your PADI Dive Master course

Sure! Take your pick from:

1. PADI eLearning Rescue Diver Online

Register for Rescue Diver Online – PADI’s eLearning option – to start now.

You progress through five knowledge development sections using a web-based system that lets you learn at your own pace through an easy-to-use, interactive program. You also have access to an online version of the Rescue Diver Manual for reference during and after the course.

2. The PADI Rescue Diver Manual

If you prefer, you can choose to study with the Rescue Diver Manual and watch the Rescue Diver Video (a book and DVD package).

Swing by The Dive Bus as soon as you get to sunny Curacao and pick up yours. If you can’t wait until you get to Curacao, pick one up from your local PADI dive shop back home.

Whichever option you choose, your Dive Bus instructor will review everything with you to ensure you’re comfortable and ready to go on your scuba divin’ adventures…

Beyond using basic scuba equipment, your PADI Instructor will explain the additional the gear, that you need or find useful such as your own pocket mask to practice in-water resuscitation first aid kit.

During the training exercises, you’ll work with specialist equipment including an oxygen unit, floats, marker buoys and The Dive Bus CPR mannequin, Bob.

All the equipment you’ll need is provided during your PADI Rescue Diver course, and there’s plenty of choice in The Dive Bus shop if you’d like to get your own. You can be sure that your Dive Bus instructor will advise which equipment is right for you, not their wallet, as there’s no sales commission here.

And a Dive Bus Graduate, you’ll get discounts off dive equipment from The Dive Bus shop too :o)

• Sign up for PADI Rescue Diver Online and start learning right away
• Download a PADI Medical Statement and Questionnaire (pdf)
• Book your PADI Rescue Diver course at The Dive Bus :o)