When you take this step to learn to be a rescue diver you should first learn PADI Advanced Diving, concentrating on the knowledge and abilities required, in order to survive underwater, in your advanced course you expand your knowledge and experience to different situations and environments.
The PADI Rescue Diver course, the next challenge, prepares you to avoid smaller and also more serious diving emergencies and, if necessary, to manage them using different techniques. This will extend your abilities and your self-confidence as a diver and will prepare you for the next steps towards professional levels of education.
The minimum age for this course is 12 years.
- duration: 3-4 days
- prerequisites: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent and medic first aid course (PADI EFR)
- minimum age: 12 years PADI Junior Rescue Diver, min. 15 years PADI Rescue Diver
- maximum depth: 30 meters
- certificate: PADI Rescue Diver