IANTD RESCUE DIVER Kurs
Course
The IANTD Rescue Diver course teaches students the techniques to learn how to rescue a diver in distress.
Rescue techniques require good training and breathing conditions to avoid transferring stress and wrong sensations to the diver being rescued.
This course, in addition to being useful in water rescue, can be of great help in improving the general diving skills of IANTD divers, completing the training started with the Open Water Diver course.
The IANTD Rescue Diver course is divided into two phases:
- Theory
- Five exercises in open water and on the surface.
Theory: suggests a sufficiently complete knowledge of the various problems that may arise during diving and the techniques appropriate to solve them. The concepts of decompression sickness, inert gas narcosis and various barotraumas are explored in detail, problems that the equipment can cause are discussed and attempts are made to solve them in practice.
Exercises: include various towing methods, simulated oxygen administration, undressing a diver in difficulty, giving him artificial respiration, various types of holds, releases, etc. All exercises aim to increase, apart from rescue and self-rescue skills, and adaptation to hydrostatic force and gravity, and further develop students’ knowledge of water sports.
Licence
The IANTD Rescue Diver certificate is a logical consequence of the Open Water Nitrox Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver courses.
A license is required to access the Divemaster course.
To obtain the IANTD Rescue Diver certificate, it is mandatory to attend the IANTD Medic first aid and oxygen provider course.
It is possible to take the MFA / OP course together with the Rescue Diver course, but it must be completed before the last dive of the Rescue Diver course.