Course overview

The SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course in Alor builds the awareness and skills to prevent, recognise and manage diving emergencies, which matters in this current-swept Indonesian archipelago. You practise self-rescue and assists in the calmer bays near Kalabahi, then run realistic scenarios on local reefs to learn how to handle stress and emergencies in real conditions.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and defuse diver stress before it escalates
• Carry out self-rescue and manage your own buoyancy and air under pressure
• Assist tired, panicked and unresponsive divers
• Search for and recover a missing diver
• Deliver in-water rescue breaths and manage a safe exit
• Plan and coordinate an emergency response in current-prone water

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (junior certification for younger divers)
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or equivalent
• Valid React Right first-aid and CPR training (or equivalent)
• Comfortable managing current entries and exits
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

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
   Theory & self-rescue

   Complete the SSI digital modules and practise self-rescue and stress recognition in a calm Kalabahi bay.
2. Day2
   Rescue skills

   Drill assists for tired, panicked and unresponsive divers in confined and open water.
3. Day3
   Scenarios & assessment

   Run full rescue scenarios on a local reef, applying current management before certification.

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