Course overview

Become a calmer, more capable diver with the SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course on Bangaram Island, mastering stress recognition and rescue techniques in the sheltered lagoon and reefs of remote Lakshadweep. The course builds the awareness and skills to prevent problems and assist other divers in the warm, clear water of India's only tropical-atoll resort. You earn the SSI Diver Stress & Rescue certification.

What you’ll learn

• Recognise stress in yourself and other divers before it becomes a problem
• Apply accident-prevention and self-rescue techniques
• Assist and tow tired or panicked divers at the surface
• Search for and recover an unresponsive diver
• Provide rescue breaths and manage an emergency response
• Plan and execute realistic rescue scenarios

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (Junior) or 15 for the full rating
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or equivalent, with navigation experience
• Current first aid and CPR (e.g. React Right) within 24 months
• 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
   Stress recognition

   Complete the digital academics and learn to spot and manage diver stress and self-rescue.
2. Day2
   Rescue skills

   Practise tows, surfacing and assists in the calm lagoon and on a sheltered reef.
3. Day3
   Rescue scenarios

   Run full open-water scenarios on Bangaram's reefs and earn your certification.

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