PADI Emergency First Response / Rescue Diver

PADI Emergency First Response The EFR Course is an innovative CPR/First Aid program that teaches you skills that could help save a life.Step by step accident management methods help you to assess a situation and act in the most efficient way to help someone until professional medical help arrives. EFR Primary & Secondary Care Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) teaches participants how to respond to life-threatening emergencies. Emergency First Response Secondary Care (First Aid) covers injuries or illnesses that are not immediately life threatening. The course focuses on both through a combination of knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice to make sure participants have the confidence in their ability to provide care if an emergency situation arises. Required for PADI Rescue Diver For people who wish to become a PADI Recue Diver, the EFR course is pretty much required. of course if you have a valid CPR/First aid certificate from another organisation or if you are a paramedic you are all set. If not, EFR would be the quickest way to fulfill the requirement. EFR and Rescue Diver are often done back to back. EFR Care for Children EFR also developed a program for children. This program is called Care for Children and handles the required skills and knowledge to perform CPR and First aid on children of various ages. Emergency First Response Instructor If you are confident enough and you would like to teach the EFR course yourself, you could do the EFR Instructor Course. For this program, the only requirement is that you have a valid EFR and Care for Children certificate and that you do the EFRI course. For more information about any of the EFR programs, please click here. Minimum age: n.a. Max. Depth: n.a. Costs: $135 * Max Participants: 12 : 1 Books: EFR manual Certification: Valid for 2 years Duration: 1 day Prerequisite: n.a. Additional items: pocket mask $25

PADI Rescue Diver Although Scuba Diving is amongst the safest recreational activities in the world, (Right besides reading a book and watching TV) it is always a good idea to be prepared just in case something undesirable happens. The PADI Rescue Diver Course does just that. In a short, intensive but fun, period, you will practise and apply all you learned during your EFR course, to diving situations. You will learn what to do to prevent emergencies from happening by improving on your observation skills. And when something does hapen, you wil be trained to quickly change the course of events in order to then prevent an aemergency to arise. More confidence We have taught a great number of PADI Rescue Divers and they all tell us the same thing: "This course really gave me a lot more confidence while diving." Of course this is true. By simulating emergencies your awareness becomes very well trained. Also you become more familiar with a variety of equipment and their specifics. Your confidence more than doubles over the course of the PADI Rescue Diver course. Which has an interesting result:.... your air consumption goes down! Obviously this will make you enjoy your dives more. No longer will you be one of the first at the surface because you are low on air. Minimum age: 12 years Max. Depth: 25ft / 8mtr Costs: $390 * Max Participants: 6 : 1 Books: PADI Rescue Diver Certification: For life Duration: 3.5 days Prerequisite: PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent, with EFR or equivalent Additional items: pocket mask $25 Made it to PADI Rescue Diver? Congratulations. Well done! You have come to an important junction on your PADI diving career. From this point on you can choose to stay recreational (for now) but actualize yourself with PADI specialties and the PADI Master Scuba diver program. The other option is to become a PADI Divemaster and start leading divers and earning some or al of your well spend money back by working in the Dive industry. Up to you! Here are your options: Become a PADI Master Scuba Diver Become a PADI Specialty Diver Become a PADI Divemaster Become an EFR Instructor Book some fun dives