Rescue Diver

PADI’s Rescue Diver course is the foundation on which you build your future underwater life. Whether you will be diving local rivers and quarries, planning deep wall dives on tropical reefs or wreck dives in the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway, dreaming about technical diving and dives on World War II wrecks off New Jersey or Palau, or cave diving in central Florida or the Yucatan—this is the point at which you realize all of this is possible—you’ve been dreaming about it, but now you know you can do it.

Rescue Diver refines and adds to your skills, but also consolidates what you already know, helps you realize that you know what you are doing—and realize that you are in control of your dives.

Rescue Diver has an independent learning component and some open water dives that take you through skill development and various scenarios that focus on assessment, problem solving and application.

Prerequisites are Adventure Diver with the Underwater Navigation dive and EFR Primary and Secondary Care training (or equivalent) within 24 months. We will teach the CPR/First Aid course in parallel for those that are not already CPR/First Aid
certified.

The cost for the course is $375, which includes the PADI eLearning and the open water dives. We will supply equipment, although if you have got to the point where you are this serious about diving, you should really be thinking about buying your own gear. If you are not sure what to buy or what to prioritize, talk to us—we’ll be happy to help.

The skills and confidence you'll gain in the PADI Rescue Diver course prepare you to take the first step towards a scuba career and/or achieve the most elite rating in recreational diving. As a certified Rescue Diver (18 years or older), you can enroll in
the PADI Divemaster course. Upon completion, you can work anywhere in the world there's water:

• Assisting with classes

• Leading dives

• Working on a liveaboard

If the pro track isn’t for you right now, consider becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver. Fewer than 2 percent of divers ever achieve this elite rating. As a certified Rescue Diver, you only need five specialty certifications and 50 logged dives to become a Master Scuba Diver™.