Course Description: Rescue Diver
During the Rescue Diver course students will learn how to better take care of themselves in the water, to be more aware underwater to see problems before they may happen to avoid a rescue situations, how to deal with a rescue situation, advanced navigation search patterns and dive specific CPR and first aid. The goal during Rescue Diver training is to make divers awareness that they are not the only ones in the water to be aware of any more. By increasing this awareness a diver becomes a safer and more responsible diver.

Course Description: PADI Divemaster
This course is the first level of dive professional.  This course will teach you about the hard and soft skills required to become a dive professional.  Academic topics focus on the following dive theory topics:  Divemaster Conducted Programs, Supervising Certified Divers, Assisting with Student Divers in Training, Physics, Physiology, Equipment, Dive Skills and Environment, and Decompression Theory and the Recreational Dive Planner.  Candidates will also bring their hard skills up instructor level demonstration quality during training.  Candidates will focus on the 20 fundamental skills taught to open water divers.  In addition, candidates will learn what it means to be a dive professional, the responsibility of taking care of some one underwater and the awareness to deal with complex situations.

• Be able to anticipated and prevent problems as well as manage them
• Have effective rescue techniques and first aid skill specific to diving
• Be prepared to manage diver emergency situations

• Supervise both training and non-training related dive activities
• Assist PADI Instructors during dive training
• Qualified to conduct the PADI Skin Diver and Discover Snorkeling program
• Conduct PADI’s Discover Local Diving experience
• Conduct PADI’s Scuba Review
• Is eligible to earn the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor rating or
• Independently guide Open Water students during  the tour portion of training dives 2, 3 and 4 at a ratio of 2:1 per certified Divemaster
• Accompany student divers during training dives of the Adventure Diver course

• The Psychology of Rescue
• Being Prepared for a Diver Emergency
• Accident Management
• Responding to Diver Emergencies

• Supervising General Diving Activities – Part 1
• Supervising General Diving Activities – Part 2
• Assisting with Student Divers in Training
• Dive Theory Introduction
• The Physics of Diving
• The Physiology of Diving
• Dive Equipment
• Decompression Theory and the RDP
• Divemaster Conducted Programs
• Risk Management
• The Business of Diving
• Your Diving Career

• Self Rescue
• Dealing with a Tired Diver at the Surface
• Rescuing a Panicked Diver at the Surface
• Response from Shore, Boat or Dock to a Responsive Diver
• Dealing with a Distressed Diver Underwater
• Missing Diver and Underwater Search Patterns
• Surfacing the Unresponsive Diver
• Dealing with an Unresponsive Diver at the Surface
• Exiting the Unresponsive Diver from the Water
• First Aid for Pressure-related Injuries and Oxygen Administration
• Response from Shore/Boat with an Unresponsive Diver

• Water skills and Stamina Exercises 1-4
• Equipment Exchange
• Emergency Assistance Plan
• Rescue Diver Assessment
• Mapping Project
• Practical Training Exercise

• Program Description
• At a Glance