Spend time around water (as a diver, how can you avoid it?) and sooner or later, you come across someone who lost something underwater. If you’re looking for the challenge and excitement – along with doing your good deed for the day – the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. It gives you the skills you need to find what’s been lost, and how to get it to the surface.During our program you’ll go on four open water dives over a two-day period. We’ll cover a variety of Search and Recovery methods including the following: Limited-visibility diving and underwater navigation techniques, proper techniques and safety considerations for object location, including the use of various search patterns, lines, and reels as well as proper techniques and safety considerations for the recovery of various objects using different lifting devices.

In the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. You learn how to locate large and small objects using search patterns, and various ways for lifting them to the surface. Not only do these skills make you more capable and confident in the water, but most Search and Recovery Divers eventually end up searching for and recovering something they lost themselves.

Covered in this Course:

• Diving using Search patterns.
• Proper lift bag use and recovery methods.
• Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery

• Techniques and safety considerations for object location, including the use of various search patterns, lines and reels.

• Techniques and safety considerations for the recovery of various objects using different lifting devices.

Session One (Open-Water):

• Dive Briefing

• Paperwork

• Short Lecture

• Dives #1 & #2

Approx. Time: 5 Hrs

Session Two (Open-Water):

• Dive Briefing

• Dives #3 & #4

• Review

• Exam

Approx. Time: 5 Hrs

Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

SEARCH & RECOVERY CLASS REQUIREMENTS

PREREQUISITE

REQUIRED GEAR

(Minimum age 15 to Register)

• Basic Gear (Purchased in OpenWater)
• Full SCUBA Gear (Rental Available**)
  • Regulator System
  • B. C.
  • Tank
  • Wetsuit & Hood
  • Weight Belt

  Plus the Following needed for Search & Recovery Class:

  • Reel
  • Lift Bag

  Plus the Following needed for all Specialty Classes:

  • Dive Knife & Slate*
  • Compass*
  • Whistle*
  • Dive Bag for Boat Trips*
  • Safety Sausage*

*Note, this Equipment is Required at ALL Dive Shops and is not included in the Class.

**Full SCUBA Gear is available for Rental at a Package Rate of $60 for the Weekend

FOR COMPLETION

• Attend Briefing Session and Complete Assignments.
• Demonstrate Proficiency in Deep Diving & Deep Dive Planning
• Pass Written Exam

We recommend this Course to Students for Several Reasons:

1. Everybody loses something in the water at one time or another – This Class will help you find what’s lost!
2. It allows those with Difficult or Varying Work Schedules to take Specialty Classes.
3. It gives your Group the ability to take a Private Specialty Class with just your Friends at a comparable Price to Standard “Pre-Scheduled” Courses at other shops
4. This Course has the Most Varied Schedule Available because you set it!
5. Smaller class sizes mean more Personalized Attention.

To View How to Build a Class Schedules See Below.

Classes Size of One up to Eight 

• Customized Course Schedule
• Tuition Fee
• PADI Search & Recovery Manual
• PADI Search & Recovery Video
• PADI Specialty Certification Card.
• (4) Beach Dives with Instructor