PADI Emergency First Response (EFR) Course
PADI Emergency First Response Course in Hurghada
One day of hands-on CPR and first-aid training that anyone can take — diver or not, with no prerequisites or age limit. It covers primary and secondary care and is the medical prerequisite for the PADI Rescue Diver and Divemaster courses.
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Emergency First Response is PADI's CPR and first-aid programme, and it is deliberately built for everyone — divers, non-diving partners, parents, travellers. There are no prerequisites, no age limit and no diving involved: just one focused, hands-on day that teaches you what to do in the minutes when it matters most.
The course has two parts. Primary Care covers life-threatening emergencies: assessing a scene safely, performing CPR, using rescue breathing, managing choking, serious bleeding, shock and spinal injury awareness. Secondary Care covers everything urgent but not immediately life-threatening: injury assessment, bandaging, splinting and illness assessment while professional help is on the way. Everything is practised physically on mannequins and with partners — by the end of the day your hands know the skills, not just your head.
For divers there is a practical bonus: a current EFR certificate (within 24 months) is the required medical prerequisite for the PADI Rescue Diver course and the professional Divemaster rating, so many students take EFR and Rescue back-to-back as a package of consecutive days. The course fee includes the instructor, the EFR manual and completion card, lunch with drinks during the day, and hotel transfers within Hurghada; hotels in Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh and El Gouna are served for a €20 per car per day surcharge.
Highlights
What's Included
- EFR instructor & course materials
- EFR certification fee
- Lunch, coffee, tea, water & soft drinks
- Free hotel transfer from/to all hotels within Hurghada
- Dive Safe Package — medical care from licensed physicians before, during and after your trip — and a fitness check before you dive whenever you would like one. No extra cost.
Not Included
- Hotel transfer for Makadi Bay, Sahl Hasheesh & El Gouna: €20 per day per car
Dive Safe Package — medical care is on us
Diving with us includes medical care from licensed physicians — before your dive, on the day, and after your trip has ended. If anything comes up once you are back at your hotel, you are still ours to look after: call us and we arrange the doctor, at no extra cost.
A dive medical fitness check before you get in the water is entirely up to you. Some divers simply like the reassurance — say the word and we arrange it with a licensed physician at no extra cost, whenever suits you. And if the physician advises against diving, we refund your booking in full.
This is the whole price
The PADI certification fee is already inside the price above — along with your equipment, instructor and course materials. Worth checking before you compare: some dive centres quote the course on its own and add the manual and certification at the desk, typically €90–€130. Others include it, as we do. So compare what each price covers, not just the number.
What is genuinely not included is listed above, in full — nothing else is added at the boat.
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Dive sites in this area
Reefs this trip may visit. The captain chooses each day's sites by wind, current and conditions on the morning — so treat this as the area, not a schedule.
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