I am new to diving but have a huge desire to do rescue diving. I've just now became open water certified so I am just now learning about all of this. Does anyone have recommendations or helpful hints for heading down this direction? I would eventually like to be an instructor. Thanks so much for any advice. Misty
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The major tip is to keep diving and eventually get all your own gear. Experience and comfort in the water are the major aspects you'll need if you want to do rescue diving. You'll need plenty more dives (hundreds more) and training for sure if you want to join some sort of rescue crew.
I have no experience with any volunteer/work rescue crews, other than having a rescue certification. Perhaps you'll get better tips in the commercial sub-forum.
I have no experience with any volunteer/work rescue crews, other than having a rescue certification. Perhaps you'll get better tips in the commercial sub-forum.
Rescue diver is a fun course to take, giving you lifeguard skills for others wearing scuba gear. EFR kinda goes hand in hand with it and the 2 are required for Divemaster. A cavern course would be good experience as well if you venture to the springs very often living in Georgia.
Well if you are referring to rescue diver as in fire department and things like that then you should take your time and just go dive a lot. Once you get to where your confident then move through the ranks to Rescue diver (This is not a professional course) and this will teach you things about diving that will be out of this world. Things like how to assist divers in distress and even how to handle emergencies as they arise. My personal recommendation and its just that is to go through divemaster too. You learn how to do things like remove equipment underwater while breathing off one regulator and that proves challenging most often to those who never considered it.
Once you are comfortable with being able to remove gear underwater and how to handle emergencies then find a department somewhere that has a public safety dive team and then you really get in to some wild diving scenarios.
Not sure if your asking about rescue diver or public safety diver though so its kind of hard to give more advice then that.
Once you are comfortable with being able to remove gear underwater and how to handle emergencies then find a department somewhere that has a public safety dive team and then you really get in to some wild diving scenarios.
Not sure if your asking about rescue diver or public safety diver though so its kind of hard to give more advice then that.
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