Rewarding and fun - that best describes the PADI Rescue Diver course. This course will expand your knowledge and experience level: Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. You will focus on how to prevent scuba emergencies occurring in the first place, however, for situations which cannot be prevented, you’ll learn to respond to divers in need of help both above and below the water.
Scuba Junkie is an award winning 5* PADI IDC centre, and your safety is our top priority! Our instructors are friendly and experienced, and most have been trained in-house to ensure that we can offer you top quality training, not only in line with PADI standards, but also by our Scuba Junkie standards!
Group sizes are kept to a maximum of 4 students per instructor, to ensure each and every student gets the attention they need. Our equipment is well maintained, and serviced regularly, and we have all the safety equipment you may need, including emergency oxygen, AED, and first aid kit. Being located on a small island, you will also learn how to handle emergencies from a remote area perspective.
Emergency First Response (EFR) is the fastest-growing international CPR, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) and First Aid training organization. Many divers take the Emergency First Response courses to meet program prerequisites, such as PADI Rescue Diver, or as preparation for becoming a PADI Divemaster. However, most have also found the EFR program to be important in everyday life. They have taken a significant step in emergency preparedness, and feel confident that they can provide care should an emergency situation arise.
The PADI Rescue Diver certification is a prerequisite for all Professional level PADI courses, beginning with the PADI Divemaster certification.
If you’ve completed your PADI advanced open water course, have gathered some dives under your belt and are feeling ready to level up your skills, then the PADI Rescue Diver course is for you! Many divers describe the rescue course as the most challenging - but also the most rewarding!
The Rescue Diver course will take two days if you're already CPR & First Aid certified. If you need to complete the Emergency First Response, this will be done the day before starting the Rescue Course for a total of 3 days. If you already have CPR & First Aid training valid within 24 months then you won't need to complete the EFR course!
You will need to complete the online theory sessions for the Rescue Course prior to arrival.
Firstly, you will need to sign up and register for an account with PADI- this can be easily done with the following link: Create a PADI account
If you already have a PADI account please let us know at the time of booking!
Once you have an account with PADI and deposits have been paid, we will issue you your e-learning package that will be linked to your account, allowing you to fully complete your theory training online in the comfort of your home, prior to arrival.
It's essential that the E-learning theory is completed in full before your arrival, without this, you will not be able to start your practical portion of your course!
The practical training will be conducted mainly from our jetty, on the House Reef. There is a mix of shallow confined water, and deeper open water here, making it ideal to practice the different skills of the rescue course. You will learn how to recognize and respond to both tired and panicked divers both underwater and at the surface. You’ll practice response from shore with a range of different props, such as life rings and floating devices. Your navigation skills will also be put to the test, using different search patterns to efficiently locate a missing diver,
One of the most challenging (and important) skills you will learn is surfacing an unresponsive diver, and towing them back to land, all whilst performing in-water rescue breaths and removing their equipment. You will also learn techniques on how to exit the water with an unresponsive diver, both with and without assistance. This may sound difficult, but it will be broken down into smaller steps for you, and you can expect to repeat them more than a few times.
After you have successfully completed the ten rescue exercises, and feel comfortable with what you have learned you will demonstrate your skills with two final rescue scenarios. These scenarios involve responding to two different (simulated) dive accidents. Upon completion, you should feel tired but very accomplished! The skills you have learned will help you become a more confident diver and more observant underwater. The problem-solving skills and situational awareness you will gain are likely to be helpful to you, not only underwater but also in your daily life!
The subject is of course serious, but you will learn all of this in an enjoyable way, and you’ll probably witness some (not so) award-winning acting from your instructor and their assistants… If you’re part of a larger group you may even get to play the victim yourself!
If you send us your certificate (must have been completed within the last 2 years) then we can check with PADI if this can be recognized as an equivalent to the Emergency first response course.
We recommend you do a day of diving including a light refresher the day before you start the course as the Rescue course has quite a few skills to focus on so we want to make sure you start comfortably.
We like to keep class sizes small for safety and control. There would be a maximum of four students on the course with one instructor.
You can start the course from 12 years old onwards.
Yes, as long as you complete the EFR and it has been done within 2 years of you starting your Rescue course.
We offer awesome EFR, Rescue & Sipadan packages which include accommodation at our resort with full meals, the courses, all equipment and materials needed plus extra fun dives! If you do not wish to book a package, you'll find the stand-alone course rates further down the page.
Possible additional Single supplement course fee of RM100 per day if you are the only course participant
