Course overview

Build the skills to prevent and manage diving emergencies with the SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course in Ambon on the Banda Sea. Through stress-recognition and rescue scenarios staged in calm Ambon Bay you learn to handle panicked, tired and unresponsive divers, valuable judgement for the region's warm water and occasional currents.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and defuse diver stress early
• Carry out self-rescue and assist a struggling diver
• Locate, surface and tow an unresponsive diver
• Deliver in-water rescue breaths and manage an exit
• Plan and lead a coordinated emergency response
• Apply oxygen and first aid in a dive emergency

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (junior) / 15 for full certification
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or equivalent, including a navigation dive
• SSI React Right (or recognised first-aid, CPR and oxygen provider training)
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

What's included · What's not

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Probability of sightings · month-by-month

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Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Theory & React Right

   Complete the MySSI academics and, if needed, the React Right first-aid, CPR and oxygen modules.
2. Day2
   Rescue skills

   Drill stress-recognition and rescue exercises in the sheltered shallows of Ambon Bay.
3. Day3
   Scenarios & certification

   Run combined rescue scenarios on a local reef, then debrief and certify.

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