PADI Search and Recovery Diver
Spend time around water (as a diver, how can you avoid it?) and sooner or later, you come across someone who lost something underwater. If you’re looking for the challenge and excitement – along with doing your good deed for the day – the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. It gives you the skills you need to find what’s been lost, and how to get it to the surface.
In the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. You learn how to locate large and small objects using search patterns, and various ways for lifting them to the surface. Not only do these skills make you more capable and confident in the water, but most Search and Recovery Divers eventually end up searching for and recovering something they lost themselves.
Find what you’ve lost with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course.
What do I need to start?
You need to be at least 12 years old and certified as a PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver, PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or hold a qualifying certification from another organisation. You will also need to complete the following forms:
• PADI Statement of Risks and Liability
• PADI/RSTC Medical Statement
• PADI Standard Safe Diving Practices
What will I do?
This course covers the knowledge, skills and techniques for Search and Recovery diving including:
• The planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of search and recovery diving.
• Limited visibility diving and underwater navigation techniques.
• Techniques and saftey considerations for object location, including the use of various search patterns, lines and reels.
• Techniques and saftey considerations for recovery of objects using various lifting devices.
• Four open water training dives.
How long will it take?
PADI programs are performance based. However, you can expect to complete the four dives in two days.
How do I book a PADI Search and Recovery Diver Course?
It's easy, with convenient dates and times at our friendly Dive Centre. Just contact us to make the arrangements.
What will I need?
• PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty Manual
• PADI Search and Recovery Diver DVD
• Log Book
What do I bring?
• Mask, snorkel & fins.
• Thermal protection.
Where can I go from here?
As a PADI Search and Recovery Diver you can enrol on the PADI Rescue Diver course or continue your education through the wide variety of PADI specialty courses. This certification also counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.
