Dive Accident Responder Course

Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 8:30 AM – 5 PM
DDRC Healthcare Hyperbaric Medical Centre, Plymouth Science Park, Research Way, Plymouth PL68

Summary

We are once again running our popular 1-day Dive Accident Responder Course, also know as DARC, specifically designed to meet the needs of recreational divers. Could you manage a diving accident? Would you know what to do if your buddy surfaced unconscious? What does it feel like to be recompressed? These are just some of the topics covered on this one day event at our chamber facility in Plymouth.

Description

Practical training: Basic Life Support (BLS) with emphasis on dealing with a diving casualty and oxygen administration.

Lectures: on Decompression Illness (DCI) – avoiding it, recognising it, dealing with it and real life case studies of diving accidents.

Sea Survival Scenarios: To be confirmed.

Dry Dive: Experience a dry dive in the DDRC chamber (valid medical or self-certificate is required)

What you also get:

DDRC course certification

Refreshments throughout the day and lunch provided

Free parking

PADI Recompression Chamber Awareness Certification and/or BSAC Dry Diver Experience Qualification Card (additional fee required).

This very informative & fun day out ,costs just £60