Course overview

Develop the skills to prevent and handle diving emergencies with the SSI Stress & Rescue course on Kadmat Island. Through realistic scenarios in the calm Lakshadweep lagoon and on the atoll's reef slopes, you learn to spot stress early, perform tows and rescues, and manage an incident, making you a far more confident and capable dive buddy.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and defuse diver stress before it escalates
• Carry out self-rescue and manage your own equipment problems
• Assist and tow a tired or panicked diver at the surface
• Locate, surface and care for an unresponsive diver
• Manage a dive accident and provide emergency oxygen
• Coordinate a team response in a full rescue scenario

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (Junior) or 15 for Stress & Rescue
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or 24 logged dives (or equivalent)
• Current React Right or equivalent first-aid, CPR and oxygen training
• 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 & stress recognition

   Complete the digital knowledge review and practise self-rescue and stress recognition in the lagoon.
2. Day2
   Rescue skills

   Drill the rescue exercises, including tows and surfacing an unresponsive diver, in calm water.
3. Day3
   Rescue scenarios

   Combine the skills in full open-water rescue scenarios on Kadmat's reef slopes.

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