Who can do the PADI Rescue Course?

Anybody with a PADI Advanced Open water certification or equivalent.

What’s special about the Rescue Course with Yongala Dive..?

The highlight of the ‘Yongala Dive’ Rescue Course will be you get to make some of your open water rescue scenarios on the dive site of the S.S. YONGALA shipwreck. Can you think of a better place?

Why become a Rescue Diver..?

This course is highly recommended to all scuba divers to give you the confidence and new skills to handle many situations which could occur during diving. You will role play as the “victim” and “the rescuer” throughout your training, there is no “perfect” way to conduct a rescue, what you will learn is how to conduct an “effective” rescue.

What you need to know about the course?

The course is an “in-water” course so the theory is conducted partly in the student’s own time and partly in the classroom, therefore you will need to collect your PADI Rescue Diver manual at least the day before your course commences to enable you to start reading and completing the necessary knowledge reviews.

There are four final scenarios you will be evaluated on to pass this course;

• Scenario 1 – Distressed Diver Underwater with Extremity Injury
• Scenario 2 – Distressed Divers on the Surface
• Scenario 3 – Unresponsive Diver Underwater
• Scenario 4 – Unresponsive Diver on the Surface and exiting the Unresponsive Diver + Administer First Aid

Before you are tested with the final scenarios you will learn 10 rescue exercises under the guidance of your PADI Instructor.

• Ex 1 – Tired Diver and self rescue review
• Ex2 – Panicked Diver
• Ex3 – Response from Shore, Boat
• Ex 4 – Distressed Diver Underwater
• Ex 5 – Missing Diver
• Ex 6 – Surfacing the Unresponsive Diver
• Ex 7 – Unconscious Diver at the Surface
• Ex 8 – Exiting the Unresponsive Diver
• Ex 9 – First Aid for Pressure-related Injuries and Oxygen Administration
• Ex 10 – Response from Shore/Boat Unresponsive Diver

How long will it take and what’s covered in the cost..?

Cost: $650 (plus $19 reef tax and mooring fees) – takes 3 days;

• Self-study – you read the PADI Rescue Manual and complete the theory including knowledge reviews in your own time.
• 1 day – Pool/theory session – re-enforce your knowledge, complete exam and watch the Rescue DVD then pop down to the pool to learn the skills you have watched on the DVD
• 1 day diving - at a local Open Water Site – completing scenario’s 1-3 with your Instructor
• 1 day diving – on the S.S.YONGALA Wreck – completing scenario’s 2-4 with your Instructor

Includes: PADI Rescue Manual and certification, 1 day classroom theory & pool work, 2 days diving on the Yongala Wreck, excellent personal instruction

Note: a current First Aid Certificate is required for this certification. If you do not have one; we can arrange a PADI EFR Course at a cost of $100 (more info)