Course overview

Earn SSI Stress & Rescue in Dahab, drilling rescue scenarios in the sheltered Lighthouse and Mashraba bays where warm, clear Red Sea water makes repeated practice comfortable. SSI's repeatable-skill approach suits this confidence-building course, the key step before professional training.

What you’ll learn

• Recognise and prevent diver stress
• Assist panicked and tired divers
• Conduct search patterns and locate a missing diver
• Surface and tow an unresponsive diver
• Coordinate an emergency response

Prerequisites

• 12+ years old
• SSI Advanced Adventurer (or equivalent)
• Current first aid and CPR (React Right)
• Diver medical 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 & Self-Rescue

   Learn stress recognition and self-rescue in a calm bay.
2. Day2
   Rescue Scenarios

   Run search, tow and unresponsive-diver scenarios at the Lighthouse.

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