Course overview

Learn to prevent and handle diving emergencies with the SSI Diver Stress and Rescue course in the Seychelles. Training in Mahe's sheltered bays and on its boulder reefs, you focus first on recognising and avoiding stress, then on rescuing yourself and others in real Indian Ocean conditions. The course makes you a calmer, more capable diver and is the prerequisite for SSI leadership ratings.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and prevent diver stress before it becomes an emergency
• Perform self-rescue and assist tired or panicked divers
• Search for and recover a missing diver underwater
• Surface and tow an unresponsive diver to safety
• Provide rescue breaths and manage a dive accident
• Coordinate an emergency response and assistance plan

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (Junior) or 15 for the full rating
• SSI Open Water Diver / Advanced Adventurer or equivalent
• Current React Right (CPR and first aid) certification
• Medical clearance signed by a physician
• Comfortable in-water skills and swimming ability

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

   Digital theory plus stress-prevention and self-rescue practice in a sheltered Beau Vallon bay.
2. Day2
   Assists & searches

   Practise tired- and panicked-diver assists and missing-diver searches on Mahe's reefs.
3. Day3
   Unresponsive diver

   Rehearse surfacing and towing an unresponsive diver with in-water rescue breaths.
4. Day4
   Rescue scenarios

   Complete full rescue scenarios combining the skills, then certify.

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