Stress & Rescue Diver

Designed to increase your personal safety and skill, this course teaches you to be comfortable in your own ability to come to the aid of a distressed diver. The course is also required for Master Diver certification.

Learning objectives include:

• Learning to manage your own stress levels
• Decreasing the chance of a diving accident due to stress and panic
• Accident management procedures
• Rescue skills designed to aid the victim without jeopardizing the diver
• Effective underwater search patterns
• Dealing with unique, complicated emergency situations

While this course is generally better for more experienced divers, it can teach even the basic diver the importance of safe diving.

Because this course is much more intense than our normal specialty courses, it is completed in four sessions.

• The first session is an academic classroom session, reviewing the fundamentals of previous courses and integrating new specific knowledge
• The second and third sessions are primarily pool sessions designed to teach you to perform the skills discussed in the classroom and in the manual.
• The final, certifying session involves an open-water simulation of a real rescue situation.

Before you are completely certified as a Stress and Rescue Diver, you will need to show proof of CPR and First Aid certification.  Denver Divers offers CPR and First Aid certification. We also recognize certifications given by other authorized agencies.

Cost of the class is $180 and includes all four sessions. Students will also purchase a Stress & Rescue Student Kit containing a manual, DVD, and a laminated process card. Purchase of a safety tube/sausage is strongly recommended.