Course overview

Build the skills to prevent and handle dive emergencies with the SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course in Raja Ampat. With training drills set in the calm shallows near Mansuar Island and the wider region's strong currents in mind, you learn to spot diver stress early and respond decisively in one of diving's most demanding environments.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and manage diver stress before it becomes an emergency
• Rescue tired, panicked and unresponsive divers
• Conduct surface and underwater search patterns
• Tow, surface and exit with an unresponsive diver
• Provide in-water rescue breathing and emergency oxygen
• Coordinate an emergency-assistance plan in a remote location

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (junior) or 15 (full certification)
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or equivalent, including navigation experience
• Current first aid and CPR (React Right) certification
• 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 and self-rescue

   Complete digital academics and practise stress recognition and self-rescue skills.
2. Day2
   Rescue circuits

   Run the in-water rescue exercises in calm water near Mansuar Island.
3. Day3
   Scenarios and certification

   Complete full rescue scenarios and earn your SSI Diver Stress & Rescue rating.

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