I am unfamiliar with the prerequisites for the Rescue class... is it really only 14 dives?
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I am unfamiliar with the prerequisites for the Rescue class... is it really only 14 dives?
Diver Prerequisites
12 years old
Note: 12-14 year old divers may earn Junior Rescue Diver certifications
PADI (Junior) Adventure Diver certification must have
completed the Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive
PADI Open Water Divers may participate in Knowledge
Development and Rescue Exercises in confined water
EFR Primary and Secondary Care training within 24
months. Training may be completed along with rescue
diver course.
Leave it to PADI to further reduce what I considered bare minimum qualifications of Rescue. It was 25 dives and AOW I believe. You can now get Rescue without AOW and without any dives outside of classes. That's nuts. I felt 25 dives was a very low thresh hold considering 9 of them are training dives.
I always felt PADI standards were low. Now I have to wonder if safety enters their heads as someone with less than 1 unsupervised dive should not be attempting to rescue anybody.