About your PADI Rescue Course

The course consists of 1 day of pool and classroom training followed by a 3 Day / 2 Night Liveaboard trip where you will get up to 10 dives on a variety of spectacular outer reef locations. These dives consist of a combination of training and recreational dives.

The Rescue Diver course is a crucial step in your diving education and is highly recommended to all divers. It’s a transitional stage in your diving education where you move beyond just diving for fun by expanding your knowledge of some of the more technical aspects of diving as well as learning rescue and emergency skills. Throughout this course you will come to appreciate and understand the importance of this training relevant to diver safety and incident minimization and management.

Pre-requisite for this course is a PADI Advanced Open Water certificate or the equivalent rating with another training agency. You will also require a current First Aid certificate.  

 

Highlights

  • 1 Day Pool & Theory assessment
  • 3 Day 2 Night Liveaboard Trip
  • Completion of a number of different diving scenarios you could face (e.g missing diver procedures, panic diver, trained to deal with any emergency situation
  • Fine tune your under water navigation skills
  • Fun dives (including 2 night dives)

Course start dates: Fridays only


Inclusions

  • PADI Rescue Diver manual
  • Passport photos if necessary
  • Accommodation transfers City and Northern Beaches
  • 10 Dives (weather permitting)
  • 2 nights accommodation on board vessel (all twin cabins)
  • All meals whilst on board
  • Bed linen
  • Dive Insurance
  • All dive equipment
  • Personal underwater dive computer
  • Prescription masks if needed
  • 5mm short arm/leg wetsuit
  • Torch batteries and cyalume sticks for night diving

Not Included

  • Pro Dive Cairns’ certified dives are generally unguided. (Guided dives may be available depending on availability of staff.)
  • Towels are not included – we recommend that you bring along two towels each (one for the ocean and one for showering).
  • A current First Aid certificate is required prior to the course commencement.
  • Environmental Management Charge, Port and administration fees, and fuel levy –  $90 per person and payable on check in

Pricing Tables

PADI Rescue Pricing Rate per person
Option Cost
Rescue Course $1,350.00
Additional Charge: Marine Levy - AUD$90.00 (per person) Payable direct to the operator

Full Itinerary

A current First Aid certificate is required prior to the course commencement. Please bring on day 1: Advanced certification, 1st Aid Certificate, log book, voucher/money, swimwear and towel.

Day 1:

  • Complimentary hotel transfer service available from your Cairns and Northern Beaches accommodation (as far as Palm Cove)
  • 8:00am – 12:00pm: This morning will be spent in the classroom covering the four theory areas of self rescue and diver stress, diving first aid and equipment, emergency management, and diving equipment. Your Rescue theory is evaluated through a 60 question multiple-choice exam, which will be completed on your 3 Day /  2 Night liveaboard trip.
  • 1:00pm – 5:00pm: The afternoon will be spent in the pool – this session is used to introduce students to some of the basic skills they will need to progress though the Rescue course. The emphasis of this session is to allow students to develop their Rescue skills and techniques in a controlled environment before conducting rescue scenarios in the ocean with wind, waves and currents.

Days 2-4:

During the 3 day 2 night liveaboard trip there are 10 dives scheduled. A minimum of 3 dives are dedicated to specific Rescue diver skill development – the remaining dives will be non-training pleasure dives. Outside of your non-training dives you can expect spontaneous real-life Rescue scenarios, to further develop your Rescue skills. These scenarios will range from panicked divers on the surface, missing diver searches and in-water resuscitation of unconscious divers. Rescue divers will be briefed on emergency procedures for man overboard, radio operations, oxygen use, life raft and distress flare operations as well as the operation of Rescue boats and diver recall.


FAQ

The course amount is fully refundable up until 48 hours before trip commencement.
Some medical conditions may prevent you from diving - you will be required to obtain a dive medical certificate prior to commencing the course if you answer ‘yes’ to any of the questions on the Continuing Education Student Diver Medical Declaration (https://prodivecairns.com/pdf/continuing_student_medical.pdf).This must be valid within 12 months of commencing the course. If you do need a dive medical, we recommend that you contact a doctor who is familiar with your medical condition, preferably with experience in diving medicine, to obtain written clearance for diving (the doctor must use the words ‘fit to dive’ or complete the physician’s section of the medical form). If you wait until arrival into Cairns, your medical can be done for an additional charge.

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