All instructors at TSC are both PADI and SSI Instructors. When making your course selection simply select your preference. PADI materials are more expensive for the store to purchase and this is reflected in the price. The experience you will receive and the instructors teaching you are the same.
The PADI Rescue Diver/SSI Stress and Rescue course is the pivotal step in expanding your dive knowledge and experience. Building upon what you have already learned as a diver, this course expands on what you already know about preventing problems and what to do if they occur. You will find this course both demanding and rewarding as you learn to rise to the challenges and master your new skills whilst making the transition to looking beyond yourself and consider the safety and well-being of others.
You will learn how to identify stress, how to prevent accidents and be taught practical techniques to conduct rescues and provide emergency care. With a combination of pool and open water practice sessions, you will become well prepared and confident at handling emergency and rescue situations.
The Rescue Diver course prepares students to deal with real dive emergencies, minor and major, using a variety of techniques. Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, students learn what to look for and how to respond. During rescue scenarios, you put into practice your knowledge and skills. Topics include:
For simplicity TSC conducts the academic component of the rescue course online through the eLearning/digital option. This means students can sign up for the rescue course whenever they want and complete the academic component in their own time. The open water training and testing takes place near Toronto during the summer months starting in June. The open water component is completed over two day and tests students on the skills they learned during the pool training sessions.
Students taking the PADI Rescue course are required to have their Advanced Open Water scuba certification and students taking the SSI Stress and Rescue course are required to have their Open Water certification. Students will also need to take a first aid course with us or show proof of CPR/first aid certification through a recognized agency within the last 2 years and be a minimum age of 12 years old.
If you require CPR/first aid certification, we can arrange that for you. Please visit the EFR course page on our website to sign up.
The TSC rescue course fee includes the eLearning digital materials, pool instruction, tanks and weights, open water certification testing and certification card. BCD and regulators are available for rent if required. Students are required to have their own mask, fins, snorkel and wetsuit for this course.
