PADI Rescue Diver Course — Hurghada

Ask experienced divers which course changed them most and the answer is almost always the same: Rescue. Over two to three days this course rewires how you dive — away from following a guide, toward genuinely watching the water, your buddy and yourself. It is challenging, occasionally exhausting, and consistently described as the most rewarding course in recreational diving.

The training is built on scenarios rather than lectures. You learn to recognise stress in another diver before it becomes panic, to manage a panicked diver at the surface without becoming a second casualty, to bring an unresponsive diver up from depth, to tow, to give rescue breaths in the water, and to organise a search pattern when someone is missing. Skills are drilled first, then woven into increasingly realistic surprise scenarios, ending in a full emergency simulation that ties everything together. Expect to laugh a lot and to be genuinely tested.

Prerequisites: you must hold a PADI Adventure Diver rating or higher with the underwater navigation adventure dive completed, be at least 12 years old, and have current Emergency First Response training (primary and secondary care) within the past 24 months — the one-day EFR course can be added right before Rescue if you need it. Equipment, materials, the certification fee, lunches on training days and Hurghada hotel transfers are included; two persons training together pay €680 total, three persons €992 total. Rescue Diver is the final step before the professional Divemaster level.