Course overview

The SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course on Tioman teaches you to recognise, prevent and manage dive emergencies, turning a capable diver into a confident first responder. Practising self-rescue and diver-assist scenarios in the warm, calm water of Tioman's sheltered bays, you build the awareness and skills to keep yourself and your buddies safe.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and manage diver stress before it escalates
• Perform self-rescue and assist tired or panicked divers
• Search for and surface an unresponsive diver
• Provide in-water rescue breaths and tow a casualty to safety
• Plan and coordinate an emergency and missing-diver response
• Handle equipment problems and surface and underwater incidents

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (junior) or 15
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or equivalent (including navigation experience)
• Current CPR and first-aid training such as SSI React Right
• 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 academic sessions and practise self-rescue and stress recognition in a calm Tioman bay.
2. Day2
   Rescue skills

   Work through the core rescue exercises, from tired-diver tows to surfacing an unresponsive diver.
3. Day3
   Scenarios and assessment

   Run full emergency scenarios and the missing-diver response at a sheltered reef, then certify.

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