Rescue Diver Certification Course
Location
Culebra, PR
Description
The Rescue Diver course teaches you techniques to avoid and manage problems and improve your confidence as a diver. During the course you’ll become a better buddy by enhancing your ability to identify potential problems and by practicing dive emergency protocol.
The this prepares you to deal with both major and minor dive emergencies, using a variety of techniques. Through knowledge development and rescue exercises, you learn what to look for and how to respond. During rescue scenarios, you put into practice your knowledge and skills. Topics include:
- Self rescue
- Recognizing and managing stress in other divers
- Emergency management and equipment
- Rescuing panicked divers
- Rescuing unresponsive divers
The price paid to Culebra Divers includes your instruction and in-water training, all necessary gear, and your certification card processing fee. Also paid to Culebra Divers if you do not already have it, $69 for the required supplemental PADI Rescue Crew Pak and $23 if you forget your training logbook. Paid to PADI during online studies registration: $224 (as of September 2024). Instructor gratuity for outstanding service is always appreciated and can be given via Venmo, handed directly to your boat crew, or discreetly given to the shop staff.
Please note: **Although you may opt to take the eLearning course in any language you wish, all in-water instructional sessions will be conducted in English**
Prerequisites & Requirements:
- 12 years of age or older
- Advanced or Junior Advanced certification
- First Aid/CPR required obtained within 2 years of this course (Oxygen administration strongly recommended)
Please choose two dates from the calendar and we will follow up with a plan for completing the course across these two days
Add-Ons
- Service fee if you have associated your PADI eLearning with a shop other than Culebra Divers $100.00
Required Materials and Paperwork
We recommend all students book their training separately to ensure they receive the required training waivers and future email communications directly. If you opt to book for others, you are solely responsible for forwarding all email communications and ensuring paperwork is completed in a timely manner.
You waiver is done online via the link below and it will also arrive in a follow-up email one hour after booking. Please complete this immediately.
Studies: Rescue eLearning
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Required waiver: Training Waiver
You are required to bring your certification information with you (hard copy or electronic)
Getting Here
Please keep in mind before booking: The flights from Culebra to the main island are low altitude flights; however, the experts at DAN still recommend 12 hours after a single dive and at least 18 hours after multiple dives or multiple days of diving.
For this reason and to avoid schedule conflicts impacting your tour (or that of others on the boat), we ask that you not book flights or the ferry immediately post the tour. Exact return times are not guaranteed.
Right of Refusal Policy
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations: Cancellations are requested via speaking to us over the phone, leaving a voicemail to 787-742-0803, or email to contact@culebradivers.com within the following parameters:
- Day of Reservation: No Call / No Show = No Refund
- Single day or multi-day packages: request must be received 24-hours prior to your tour time to be eligible for a refund
- Private Charters: request must be received 7 days prior to your tour time to be eligible for a refund
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Cancellations during the HOLIDAYS (NOV 21 – 28; DEC 20 - JAN 10):
- Single day or multi-day packages: request must be received 72-hours prior to your tour time to be eligible for a refund
- Private Charters: request must be received 7 days prior to your tour time to be eligible for a refund
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We caution against same day transportation plans close to your tour time as the ferry or flights can be delayed. Should transportation issues result in a customer’s inability to arrive in time for their tour, no refund is available.
Divers: You must provide proof of certification, or you will be charged for the missed dive(s) if we cannot reschedule you or if you opt to back out of the dive(s). Certain waivers have medical questions that require a physician's approval. If this applies to you, & you wait until the day of your tour to review these questions and are unable to dive, no refund is available.