Course overview

Complete PADI Emergency First Response on Neil Island as a standalone first-aid course or as the step before Rescue Diver. It runs over a single day on the island and builds the CPR and first-aid confidence you will want before heading out to remote Andaman dive sites.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • EFR participant manual and video
  • Primary care (CPR) skill practice
  • Secondary care (first aid) scenarios
  • AED and oxygen-awareness orientation
  • Skills assessment
  • EFR Primary and Secondary Care certification (valid 24 months)
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The PADI Emergency First Response pathway

PADI's Emergency First Response uses EFR eLearning or printed materials and certifies you in Primary and Secondary Care, which satisfies the first-aid prerequisite for the PADI Rescue Diver course.

Where you'll dive in Neil Island

EFR is run in a classroom on Neil Island rather than underwater, so it suits any traveller and pairs neatly with dive training before exploring deeper sites like The Wall (10-30 m).

Prefer a different certifying agency?SSI Emergency First Response in Neil Island →

Not included? Sort the rest of your trip

Flights and accommodation aren’t part of the course price, here’s how to book them around your dates.

Getting there

Fly into Port Blair (IXZ) · 1-3 hours from India.

Where to stay

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