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

There’s not much to do on Soi Ta Aed, the road Tiger Muay Thai is on, other than train, eat and get massages so I’ve been escaping out to sea with the help of Phuket Dive Tours and its awesome owner Dave.