After successfully graduating the advanced open water-diver-class, you have the chance to educate yourself even further. For example with the rescue-diver-class in which you learn to improve diving techniques that can safe lifes in emergency situations. By taking part on the rescue-diver-class you show responsibility in front of other divers which is highly respected and appreciated by beginners.
As a certified rescue-diver nothing stands in your way to become a dive-master or join the technical diver advanced programm.
the class includes:
| requirements | advanced open water-diver-certificate |
| age | 16 years & older |
| documents needed | registration for class, your diving suitablity-certificate, medical questionare, rules for safe diving |
| dives | 35 |
| time span of class | 32 hours total |
theory
module 1
selfrescue, rescue-techniques, stress
module 2
physiology, consequences of pressure, primary & secondary diver-deseases, Aternobaro Vertigo, drowning, temperature struggles
module 3
repitition from MFA-program, priorities, first examinations, apnea, blackouts, help with suffocation, CPR, shock, bleedings, first aid, material, second examination, transport-techniques, oxygen-equipment, organisation in emergency-situations
module 4
problems with / knowlegde about equipment, configurations
module 5
recognize emergency-situations, bring blacked out victims to surface, removing equipment, exit water with a blacked out victim, recognize problems on water surface, process of finding missing divers, use of neurological charts
theory-exam: 50 questions
practice in restricted open water
dealing with … under water
… broken mask-band
… broken mask-glass
… foreign bodies in regulator
… icing of regulator
… icing of valves
… leaky jacketts
… broken inflator / deflator
… leaky HD-hose
… broken fins
practice in open water
module 1
throw roap at least 8 meters
tow exhausted diver at least 50 meters using 3 methods
panicking diver under water
emerge unsing jelly-fish breathing from 10 meter depth
cramps on water-surface
module 2
cramps under water
alternating breathing from 10 meter depth
mouth to mouth of diver at water-surface
module 3
searching for missed diver
bringing up missed diver to water-surface
module 4
bringing up missed diver from 15 meters depth
mouth to mouth on water-surface
bringing missed diver to boat
use of CPR & oxygen-equipment
open water-exam
2 rescue-practices – 1 alone & 1 with team
certificate
rescue-diver at recrative diving, allowance to participate at classes to become a professional diver (for example the dive-master-class, deep air, wreck- & cave diving)