Ok now you are comfortable in planning and conducting your own dives, and more than able to continue along your own personal underwater journey, but what if things don’t go to plan, could you cope ?

Yes although you have now learned all of the skills you need to be able to conduct your own dives and gained some extra experience along the way, you can always learn more. Dives are always easy and enjoyable when everything goes well and to plan, but sometimes they don’t. So this is where you need to add a very special something to your tool box, The PADI Rescue Diver qualification.

Our PADI Rescue Diver course is especially designed to expose you to potential problems and scenarios that you may one day have to deal with. Through the course our PADI Instructors will equip you with the specific skills and techniques you will need to be able to confidently and decisively manage the situation. Whether as a member of a team, or just as a buddy pair by the end of this course you will be a better, safer and more able Underwater Adventurer than ever before.

We offer this course throughout the year, pulling together divers from all our training venues. The open water portion of the course is generally offered at Vivian or St Abbs, where we utlise the unique aspects of these venues (being they are more difficult and more of a challenge plus our instructors get to make you run about a bit more!!) The pool portion is conducted at our main pool venue in Harrogate. Once you have completed the course you will receive the coveted qualification and title of PADI Rescue Diver, and have become a totally self sufficient diver more able to assist both yourself and others whenever the need may arise.

The first day of your PADI Rescue Diver Course is split between classroom and pool, learning and perfecting the fundamentals and techniques that will be put into practise later. Once you have learned and mastered these skills you will move to the open water location for a full weekend of training, practise and fun. Yes this course is a high level and serious course but without doubt the most enjoyable course you will ever have completed, so far. Again as with all our recreational courses we have reduced the classroom time to a minimum by utilising a self study approach for the bulk of knowledge, using the PADI Rescue Diver Manual prior to your course. As a qualified Rescue Diver you will of course need First Aid skills, you may already have these, but generally the majority of our students also complete a PADI Emergency First Response course with us, we offer this as part of the Rescue package.


Throughout the course you will be trained directly by our own PADI Instructors, in the highest quality and expertly maintained equipment. However as you are now a fully fledged Scuba Diver in your own right and soon to be a Rescue Diver you will need to be appropriately equipped with your own Pocket Mask and now I dare say you will have some or most of your own equipment, however anythig you need will still be available should you need it.

There you go, the PADI Rescue Diver Course, and your future as a safer and better equipped diver is here and waiting for you. Our Dive Team are ready, simply give us a call, drop in or take the plunge and fill in the booking form and we can get you back into the water and help you continue along your own personal underwater journey.