Course overview

Learn primary and secondary care before you tackle Rescue Diver in South Ari Atoll, where remote island and liveaboard diving makes confident first-aid skills genuinely valuable. This PADI Emergency First Response course is classroom and dry-land based, run between dives at your island or resort base.

What you’ll learn

• CPR and rescue breathing
• Managing a non-breathing patient
• Serious bleeding and shock management
• Spinal injury awareness
• Using a barrier device and AED basics

Prerequisites

• None

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
   Care skills & scenarios

   Practise CPR, bleeding control and patient assessment through guided dry-land scenarios.

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