Be a confident and prepared diver
The PADI Rescue Diver course takes your diving skills to the next level by focusing on problem prevention and management. Learn to think beyond yourself and respond effectively in emergency situations.
This course is both rigorous and rewarding, helping you build confidence and gain valuable skills for your future dives.
Paired with the Emergency First Response course, you will also learn CPR and First Aid techniques essential for every diver.
Course Details
- Minimum age: 15 years
- Prerequisite: Advanced Open Water Diver
- Duration: 2 full days
- Online eLearning: approximately 10 hours
- Vobster Quay and Surrey Hills: Day 1 at Vobster Quay, meeting at 10:00 midweek or 09:00 on Saturdays; Day 2 at Surrey Hills Dive Lake, meeting at 10:00 midweek or 09:00 at weekends
- Surrey Hills only: both days at Surrey Hills Dive Lake, meeting at 10:00 midweek or 09:00 at weekends
- Runs Thursday–Friday or Saturday–Sunday
- Over the two lake days, practise Rescue Exercises 1–10, including self-rescue, panicked-diver response, underwater problem-solving and missing-diver procedures, and complete your EFR training
- Apply those skills during open-water dives, including Rescue Scenarios 1 and 2: managing an unresponsive diver at the surface and underwater
- Price: £425, or £535 including EFR / CPR and First Aid
Important Information
- Lake entrance: £20 at Surrey Hills Dive Lake; Vobster Quay £26 (£19.50 for Vobster members); see vobster.com
- Air fills: 1 required each day; one fill per lake day is included, and extra fills are £8 cash each, paid at the lake
- Bring food and drinks or money to purchase them
- LSD does not normally provide lake transport. We can help arrange car sharing where possible, but you may need to arrange your own transport
- Summer (May–October): no dry suits are available
- Winter (November–April): choose one of these two dry suit options at checkout (not both)
- Dry Suit Diver certified: dry suit hire for the course, £40
- Not Dry Suit Diver certified: dry suit orientation at the lake plus suit hire, £90. This includes in-water training on several skills before your first course dive, and a Dry Suit adventure dive in the same suit
- We strongly recommend completing the PADI Dry Suit Diver specialty before your Rescue Diver course
- PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider add-on: £100, with no additional in-water training required; the practical session runs on the same day as your Rescue training, during breaks or afterwards
- A Scuba Review (£135) is required if you have not dived within 12 months — get £20 off when booked at the same time as your course with code SR20
What to bring
Your own gear
Bring your own mask and snorkel, plus boots in summer or gloves in winter. Everything else is as listed in the course details.
- Mask and snorkelAll year
- BootsSummer, May to October
- GlovesWinter, November to April
Emergency First Response add-on
The EFR course is interlaced with your Rescue Diver course and includes online eLearning with the final exam, Primary Care CPR practice, Secondary Care First Aid practice and life-saving scenarios under professional guidance.
If you already hold valid CPR and First Aid training completed within the last 24 months, you can deselect the EFR add-on during checkout.
Why choose this course?
Train in realistic open-water scenarios at the lake. Build rescue, CPR and First Aid skills through hands-on exercises with experienced instructors.
Ready to begin?
Build skills you can rely on
Choose the Rescue Diver option that matches your current CPR and First Aid certification, then check the live course availability above.