PADI Medic First Aid / 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 accidents and render first aid.

The program is an important step in expanding your knowledge and experience as a diver.

The PADI Rescue Diver certification is also a prerequisite for all PADI leadership programs

PADI Medic First Aid / Rescue Diver

You'll also need to have successfully completed the PADI MEDIC FIRST AIDŽ program or a sanctioned program in CPR within the past three years.

The PADI Rescue Diver program covers the following:

- self-rescue and diver stress
- diving first aid
- emergency management and
   equipment considerations
- swimming and nonswimming 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.