Stress & Rescue Specialty

The SSI Stress & Rescue Specialty course gives you the tools to prepare, handle and deal with emergencies and rescue situations. Through digital learning, knowledge development with your Instructor, confined water skill sessions and open water scenarios will learn:

• How to identify stress in diving, its causes and stress prevention techniques. 
• Accident management. 
• Rescue skills used both in water and out and how to deal with conditions that complicate rescues.

With an emphasis on prevention, self-rescue, and the importance of managing situations effectively, SSI Stress & Rescue enables you to deal with a wide range of typical problems, making you a better buddy, and increasing your confidence as a diver.

Your first day will be spent reviewing what you covered in the digital learning materials  Then you will head to our pool, where you will learn basic skills such as assisting a panicked diver, surfacing an unconscious diver, and out of air drills. as well as learning how to administer oxygen, and in-water artificial ventilation techniques. 

The second day is spent on the boat or shore simulating emergencies, conducting searches, and learning how best to manage the human resources available, as well as learning how to administer oxygen, and in-water artificial ventilation techniques.