Course overview

Sharpen your safety and emergency skills with the SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course on Gili Trawangan, learning to prevent, recognise and manage dive emergencies. In the island's calm 27-29°C water you practise self-rescue, assist other divers and handle unresponsive-diver scenarios on sheltered Gili reefs.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and manage diver stress before it becomes an emergency
• Perform self-rescue and tired-diver assists
• Help panicked divers at the surface and underwater
• Locate and surface an unresponsive diver
• Provide in-water rescue breaths and manage an incident
• Coordinate an emergency response as a team

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (Junior)
• SSI Advanced Adventurer with Navigation, or equivalent
• Current React Right (or equivalent) first-aid certification
• Diver medical clearance where required

What's included · What's not

Not included? Sort the rest of your trip

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Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Theory & stress recognition

   SSI academics and self-rescue plus stress-recognition skills in sheltered water.
2. Day2
   Rescue exercises

   Practise panicked-diver, missing-diver and unresponsive-diver exercises on a calm Gili reef.
3. Day3
   Scenarios & certification

   Combine skills into full rescue scenarios, then certify as an SSI Stress & Rescue Diver.

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