The PADI Rescue Diver course teaches you to prevent and manage problems and help other divers - challenging and hugely rewarding. For certified divers with EFR; materials, equipment and hotel pickup included.
PADI Rescue Diver is the course most divers call their favourite — challenging, rewarding and genuinely useful. Over about 3–4 days you learn to prevent and manage diving problems: self-rescue, spotting and helping a tired or panicked diver, missing-diver procedures and surfacing and caring for an unresponsive diver. You practise realistic scenarios in the water with your instructor. A current EFR (first aid/CPR) certification is required and can be done with us.
You'll need Adventure/Advanced certification and a current Emergency First Response (EFR) certificate — we offer EFR alongside Rescue if you need it. Good fitness helps, as the scenarios are physically active.
Rescue Diver changes how you dive: you become more aware, more confident and a better buddy for everyone around you. The skills are genuinely useful beyond diving too, and most divers describe it as the most rewarding course they've ever taken with us.
Yes — a current EFR (primary and secondary care) certification within the last 24 months is required. You can complete EFR with us before or alongside the course.
It's demanding but very rewarding — you practise real rescue scenarios. Most divers finish feeling far more confident and capable.
Rescue Diver is a prerequisite for Divemaster and counts toward Master Scuba Diver, the top recreational rating.
