Learn to be a PADI Rescue Diver on Koh Tao
The PADI Rescue Diver course continues to develop your existing skills, increasing your skill competence and confidence, whilst introducing new skills that will become valuable additions to your scuba skill-set.
Many divers will tell you the Rescue Diver course is the most challenging diving course they have completed, but also the most satisfying, rewarding and fun.
Koh Tao is the perfect location to complete the Rescue Diver course. Boasting great diving condition most of the year, this course allows you to practice, hone and perfect some of the most challenging dive skills you will learn.

Become a PADI Rescue diver and be ready to help others in the event of an emergency situation.
Included in the Koh Tao PADI Rescue Diver Course
● PADI e-manual
● PADI Certification card
● Rental of all scuba equipment
● FREE use of Dive Computer
● Log book
● Maximum 4 students per PADI Instructor Koh Tao PADI Rescue Diver Course Pre-requisites
● An Adventure diver or equivalent
● Recent diving experience – we recommend completing a scuba review if you have not dived for 12 months
● 12 years of age or older
● Medically fit to dive
● Hold a recognized First aid and CPR ertificate valid within the last 24 months
We conduct the Rescue Diver course over 2-3 days.

The course consists of three sections:
● Knowledge Development
● E-learning conducted prior to arrival or self-study & Instructor led knowledge reviews
● Prepare an emergency assistance plan for a dive site
● Confined or Open Water training sessions
● Demonstrate skills from the Self-Rescue Review & be introduced to Rescue exercises 1-10
● Open water training
● Final assessments of Rescue exercises 1-10
● Rescue Scenarios 1 and 2 in Open Water

Koh Tao PADI Rescue Diver Course Schedule
The Rescue diver course schedule is flexible and we can work around your own personal needs and timeframe. Please feel free to ask us about any special requests you have either via email or on one of the messenger apps on this page.

Day 1:
09.00 – 11.30: Orientation & Knowledge Development
If you have completed the e-learning then you only need to take an Orientation before you are ready to get into the water and get wet.

12.30 – 17.00: Confined & Open Water training sessions
– Self-Rescue skills
– Rescue skill development
– Introduction to Rescue Skills 1-10

Day 2:
09.00 – 11.30: Knowledge Development
If you have completed the e-learning then we will review your EAP then its time to get into the water and get wet.

12.30 – 17.00: Open Water training sessions
Rescue Skills 1- 10

Day 3:
09.00 – 11.30: Knowledge Development & Final Exam
12.30 – 17.00: Open Water training sessions

Open Water training sessions – Final Rescue Scenarios 1 & 2

Congratulations. You are now a certified PADI Rescue diver, one step away from becoming a PADI Divemaster and a PADI Pro

PADI Rescue Diver Course Information
Let us take a look at The PADI Rescue Diver course in more detail.

Option 1
PADI E-learning Rescue Diver course
Orientation & Knowledge Development
Choose the e-learning Rescue Diver course option and spend more time on holiday with NO time in a classroom.
Skip 1 full day of classroom time and spend that on the beach or better still, enjoy more diving.
We can fit in your Orientation & e – learning Rescue diver Online Quick Review either the evening before we start, or the morning of your first in-water training session – whatever works best for you. Just tell us what you prefer so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Option 2
PADI Classic Rescue Diver course
Orientation & Knowledge Development

We start the Rescue diver course at 09.00 with an Orientation. This includes completion of all the usual paperwork including the PADI Medical statement.
The Rescue diver course knowledge development comprises of 5 sections.
Each section has a short knowledge review and at the end of the knowledge development section a
50 question multiple choice final exam.
Your Instructor will guide you through the knowledge development. Some of the topics we will discuss include the causes of dive accidents, common equipment problems and identifying divers in distress.
We will also introduce you to missing diver and diver rescue procedures as well as accident management and first aid treatment for diving injuries.
The Instructor led knowledge development is conducted over 3 half days.
PADI Rescue Exercises
Initially we will introduce all Rescue skills in shallow water and we start with a demonstration.
You will then have an opportunity to repeat the skill, practice and perfect it until you have mastered the skill.
We will start with the easier skills and slowly build up, as you become more comfortable and confident
before moving onto the more challenging skills.
PADI Self-Rescue Skills

Some of the skills you will start with include:
● Cramp release
● Establishing buoyancy at the surface
● Airway control
● Use of an alternate air source
● Overcoming vertigo and re-establishing sense of direction

Once we have completed the self-rescue skills we will progress onto the rescue exercises. In total
there are 10 rescue exercises you must master.
● Tired diver tow
● Dealing with a panicked diver on the surface
● Responding to a panicked, or distressed diver from the boat
● Responding to distressed divers underwater
● Underwater search pattern using a compass & finding a missing diver
● Surfacing an unresponsive diver
● Unresponsive diver on surface, including rescue breathing and towing back to boat
● Exiting an unresponsive diver onto a boat
● First Aid for pressure related injuries including administration of Oxygen
● Responding to an unresponsive & non breathing diver from the boat
Once we have introduced you to these skills in shallow water and you have had time to practice and feel comfortable we will repeat them again in deeper water.

We will then start to combine the skills into more realistic drills, working to a point where you are proficient and performing these drills with confidence.
Rescue Scenario – Are you Rescue ready?
Now you are feeling comfortable with your rescue skills it is time for the real excitement to begin. It is time for final evaluation and your Rescue Diver final scenario’s.
You will now put into practice all rescue and first aid knowledge and skills you have learned over the past 3 days into practice with two simulated real life rescue scenario’s.
Rescue Diver Scenario 1 – Unresponsive Diver Underwater
In this scenario you will search for and locate a missing diver during an accident simulation using one of the search patterns you mastered earlier.
You will then bring the diver, who will be simulating unresponsiveness, to the surface using controlled positive buoyancy.
Rescue Diver Scenario 2 – Unresponsive Diver at the Surface
During this second rescue scenario you will respond to an unconscious diver on the surface who is
not breathing.
You are required to administer in-water rescue breathing, whilst towing the diver back to the boat,
removing the divers equipment, exiting the diver and performing CPR on the boat.