Search & Recovery Specialty Instructor

PADI Search and Recovery Specialty Instructor

Search and recovery is both a useful skill and an enjoyable challenge. It’s the kind of activity in which you can learn the basics in a couple of days, yet not fully master all the nuances in hundreds of dives. Accomplishing a fin search or raising a lost anchor sounds reasonable, but it may seem impossible to find a contact lens lost in an Olympic-sized pool, or a wedding ring that fell into a river a week earlier, or a dive mask buried so only the strap shows a bit in a silty low-viz lake. Yet all these have actually been accomplished by recreational divers – search and recovery artists, if you will, who rose to the challenges these endeavors demand.

Learn to Search and Recovery Diver Specialty Course

The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course develops student divers ability to locate and retrieve lost articles, large and small, within recreational limits. divers will find the course challenging – divers only find something in a large area quickly when they are lucky. And, they will find it rewarding because there’s something satisfying about coming upon something lost in an area so huge, that it seemed impossible to find. It’s equally satisfying to ascend slowly and in control raising more weight under a lift bag than they could comfortably carry up.

As a PADI Instructor you need role model skills to plan and execute a successful search and recovery dive.

You will get the confidence, knowledge and skills necessary to teach student divers how to organize, plan and participate in search & recovery dives.

The Search & recovery course teaches divers how to conduct search patterns and use lifting devices to search for and recover objects of different sizes in varying search areas.

To enroll to Search and Recovery Specialty Instructor Course

You must be, 

• Be at least a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor or currently participating in or have completed an IDC/OWSI Program within the past 12 months.
• IDC/OWSI candidates may apply for Specialty Instructor certification only after successfully completing a PADI IE.
• Medically fit to dive.

The course consists of two sections:

1. Knowledge Development
2. Open Water training - 2 Search & Recovery training dives

During the knowledge development section, you must complete the following:

• Present a knowledge development presentation from the PADI Search & Recovery specialty manual by prescriptively teaching a missed question from the knowledge review.
• Review & understand the purpose and goals of the PADI Search & Recovery specialty course.
• Review & explain the Search & Recovery course standards and procedures from the PADI Specialty Course Instructor Guide and list all student and Instructor equipment requirements.
• Demonstrate mastery of all knowledge development.
• Describe how to conduct all course segments in a manner that enables divers to meet the diving course performance requirements.
• Participate in a marketing and promotional workshop where you will learn techniques to promote the Search & Recovery specialty diver course to your students and the general diving public.
• Participate in a pricing workshop.

The open water traning:

There are 4 Search & Recovery training dives to complete in the student level Search & Recovery Diver specialty course.

During the Search & Recovery Instructor specialty course, you must complete all performance requirements of those 4 dives over 2 training dive with all the following, 

• Demonstrate mastery of all water skill performance requirements for the Search & Recovery specialty diver course.
• Conduct an Open Water teaching presentation from the Search & Recovery specialty diver course.
• Demonstrate all Search & Recovery diver specialty diver Open Water performance requirements.

Upon completion of all the course performance requirements, you will receive the PADI Search & Recovery Instructor certification.

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