Course overview

SSI Diver Stress and Rescue on the Perhentian Islands teaches you to spot trouble early and respond decisively, making you a calmer, more capable diver. Working in the sheltered bays off Long Beach and Coral Bay, you practise stress recognition, tows and unresponsive-diver recovery in warm, easy conditions that let you concentrate on the skills.

What you’ll learn

• Identify and defuse diver stress before it escalates
• Carry out self-rescue and assist a struggling diver
• Manage a panicked diver at the surface and below it
• Search for, surface and care for an unresponsive diver
• Coordinate an emergency response and accident management
• Plan and execute effective underwater search patterns

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 12 (Junior) or 15 for Stress and Rescue
• SSI Advanced Adventurer / Specialty diver or equivalent certification
• Current first aid and CPR (React Right) certification
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

What's included · What's not

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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 and stress recognition

   Digital knowledge review, stress recognition and self-rescue practice in calm water off Long Beach.
2. Day2
   Rescue skills

   Practise assists, tows and bringing an unresponsive diver to the surface on a sheltered reef.
3. Day3
   Scenarios and certification

   Run full open-water rescue scenarios on a local site, then certify as an SSI Stress and Rescue diver.

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