Course overview

Build the life-support skills every diver should carry with the PADI Emergency First Response course in Mauritius. This non-diving classroom programme, easily paired with diving in Flic-en-Flac, teaches primary and secondary care to internationally recognised standards so you can respond confidently to medical emergencies on land or at the dive site. It also satisfies the first-aid prerequisite for the PADI Rescue Diver and Divemaster courses.

What you’ll learn

• Perform CPR and rescue breathing on an adult
• Manage a non-breathing or unresponsive casualty
• Control serious bleeding and manage shock
• Use an automated external defibrillator (AED)
• Carry out secondary care: illness and injury assessment, splinting and bandaging
• Recognise and respond to dive-related emergencies

Prerequisites

• No prior experience or certification required
• Open to non-divers and divers alike
• No minimum diving age (suitable for accompanying family members)
• No swimming or medical clearance required for the classroom course

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Primary and secondary care

   Classroom CPR, AED and first-aid practice with hands-on scenarios, completed in a single day alongside your Mauritius diving.

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