Course overview

Develop the awareness and skills to prevent and handle diving emergencies with the SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course in Komodo, where tidal currents make stress-recognition a genuinely useful skill. You learn to spot trouble early, perform assists and manage an unresponsive diver, all sharpened by Komodo's real conditions. You finish certified and ready to progress toward SSI leadership ratings.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and manage diver stress before it escalates
• Perform self-rescue and tired-diver assists
• Handle panicked divers at the surface and at depth
• Search for, surface and tow an unresponsive diver
• Deliver in-water rescue breaths and manage the exit
• Coordinate an emergency-response plan

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (junior certification under 15)
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or equivalent, with Navigation experience
• Current React Right (or equivalent) first-aid, CPR and oxygen-provider 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 and self-rescue

   Complete the MySSI study and practise stress-recognition and self-rescue skills.
2. Day2
   Rescue skills

   Work through assists, tows and surfacing an unresponsive diver in open water.
3. Day3
   Scenarios and certification

   Run full rescue scenarios in real conditions, then certify as an SSI Stress & Rescue diver.

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