PADI Search and Recovery Diver

4 Days to Complete

 

Whether you’re diving on a liveaboard, from the shore, or off a boat, people often ask divers to help locate something lost at sea or in deep water. You could also find yourself in more pressing circumstances when there’s a missing diver.

How would you organise a search? What equipment would you use? Which patterns would you use, how would you mark the search area, and how would you communicate with your buddy underwater?

You will start the course with an in-depth classroom presentation and fun, dry practice sessions on land with your dedicated Instructor. You will move on to four open water training dives where you’ll practice various search patterns and lifting techniques underwater. Combined with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Manual, this course provides you with the knowledge and skills to plan and execute a thorough search, improving your chances of success when needed.

Don’t forget, the first dive of this Specialty Course, counts towards your PADI Adventure and Advanced Open Water Certification! The full Specialty Course counts towards the elite PADI Master Scuba Diver rating!

 

Requirements:

• Open Water Diver Certified with the PADI Navigation Specialty OR Advanced Open Water Certified

• At least 12 years old

• Logged dive within 12 months (ReActivate available)

 

Achievements:

• Learn how to tie various knots underwater

• Execute various search patterns underwater

• Safely rig and bring a lifting device to the surface

 

Certifications:

• Take the lead, organize, plan and conduct search and recovery dives with a buddy

• Understand and select appropriate search patterns

• Choose lifting methods based on the facts surrounding a lost object