Rescue diver course questions

[sungod357]

I'm a paramedic interested in focusing my carrer in rescue diving. I have finished my open water and my nitrox classes and and getting ready for the caver/intro to cave. Where are some good resorces to begin researching the courses avalible and any advice on the subject would be great.

thanks
sungod

 

[gcbryan]

You might go below to this sub-forum:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forumdisplay.php?f=277

 

[AquaHump]

I'm a paramedic interested in focusing my carrer in rescue diving. I have finished my open water and my nitrox classes and and getting ready for the caver/intro to cave. Where are some good resorces to begin researching the courses avalible and any advice on the subject would be great.

thanks
sungod

Welcome to board, let me start by saying that dive rescue and rescue diver are to very different beasts. I am also a paramedic and have been in EMS for 12 years. In the diving world you will find that a large portion of you knowledge is lost. It is mostly BLS. Being a public safety diver is mostly body recovery. If you want to challenge yourself I would look into hyperbaric medicine. That is a very cool class. I am trying to get my work to pay for it for me.
Now remember in cave diving you will more then likely learn to dive doubles. All the public safety stuff I have seen they want you use singles with a pony. Do you dive doubles yet? I am a wreck diver I have not taken cave yet but plan to. I do dive Hog so if you need any help there let me know? If you are going to dive cave I hope you have a good handle on your open water diving.

 

[cummings66]

Not to mention the next course should be your AOW since it's required before the other ones you want to take. After AOW then comes the rescue course, of course any elective could be done before rescue but because you said you wanted that one specifically I'd say put it on the short list.

If you're going to do cave then start gathering the gear used for that pursuit and dive it for a while to get comfortable in it as well.

 

[DeputyDan]

Not to mention the next course should be your AOW since it's required before the other ones you want to take. After AOW then comes the rescue course, of course any elective could be done before rescue but because you said you wanted that one specifically I'd say put it on the short list.

If you're going to do cave then start gathering the gear used for that pursuit and dive it for a while to get comfortable in it as well.

Not for SSI Stress and Rescue!

 

[ron_cooper]

In regard to the SSI course I had completed a PADI nitrox book in advance of taking the course next month and found out that the dive outfitter I will be diving with now only does SSI so I did thier booklet. I found that the PADI one was a lot more extensive in details and exercises. Is this the case with the Stress and Rescue