After passing my PADI Open Water and Open Water Advanced, this weekend I also passed my PADI Rescue Diver course, taught by Dan from Phuket Dive Tours. The course covered the following:
- Self-rescue and diver stress
- Rescue Diver first aid
- Swimming and non-swimming rescue techniques
- Emergency management and equipment
- Panicked diver response
- Underwater problems
- Rescue Missing diver procedures
- Surfacing the unconscious diver
- In-water rescue breathing protocols
- Exiting unconscious diver
- First aid procedures for pressure related accidents
- Two final open water scenarios
