Course overview

Develop the judgement and skills to prevent and manage diving emergencies with the SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course in Moalboal, Cebu. Training on the sheltered Panagsama Beach house reef, you learn to spot stress early and carry out surface and underwater rescues in the same warm, accessible water where local instructors train, growing into a far more confident and self-reliant diver. You earn the SSI Diver Stress & Rescue certification on completion.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and defuse diver stress before it escalates
• Assist tired and panicked divers at the surface
• Rescue and recover an unresponsive diver from depth
• Deliver in-water rescue breaths and manage the exit
• Provide emergency oxygen and accident management
• Plan and coordinate a diving emergency response

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (junior) / 15 for full certification
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or 24+ logged dives (or equivalent)
• Current React Right or equivalent CPR and first-aid certification
• Diver medical questionnaire / physician's clearance where indicated

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

   Study stress and rescue theory and practise self-rescue and tired-diver assists in the shallows off Panagsama Beach.
2. Day2
   Rescue techniques

   Drill surface and underwater rescues, including unresponsive-diver recovery on the house reef.
3. Day3
   Scenarios & assessment

   Complete full rescue scenarios and emergency-management practice to earn your certification.

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