Twelve months from now, you can be the diver your buddies are quietly grateful is on the boat. PADI Rescue Diver certification at festival scale, with real instructors, real scenarios, and real victims to practice on. Tigertail Lake, Florida.
The mom who dives twice a year on family trips. The retired teacher who just wants to be useful. The friend who's been certified for twenty years and never re-took the class. The solo traveler. The DM-aspirant. The 50-something woman who feels rusty.
If you can hold a regulator, this is for you. Bring your buddies.
Each station is a different rescue situation, run by a different instructor team. You rotate through all ten over two days. By the end, you have done the move. Not read about it. Done it. Which is the difference.
Tow technique, talking them down, reading body language.
How to reach a struggling diver without becoming the second victim.
Bringing them up, controlled ascent, ditching weights.
Who calls 911. Who runs to the boat. Who counts heads.
Setup, delivery, monitoring. Real O2. Real masks.
Surface signals, light protocols, lost-buddy procedures.
Free-flowing reg, BCD failure, mask flood, alternate air.
U-pattern, expanding square, missing-diver protocols.
Throw-bag, ladder recovery, in-water shore exit.
Stabilization, EMS handoff, documenting what happened.
Bulk pricing for 10+. Custom prerequisites coordination. We'll build you a group lane.
Coast Guard. Broward Sheriff marine units. DAN. Real safety teams, real conversations, real gear demos.
Hands-on with the latest dive computers, satellite communicators, rescue gear. Try before you buy.
Documentary photo + video team capturing your training. Shareable proof. Stories worth telling.
If you answer "yes" to anything on page 1, your physician needs to sign before training. We'll send you the form, the prereq checklist, and reminders as the event approaches. No spam. Just what you need.
No. The Refresher track is built exactly for divers in your spot. You'll be in a small group with people at the same level. By the end of day one, you'll feel sharp again.
You will not. Our community skews wider than the dive-shop stereotype. Every age, every gender, every body type. The point is being the person your friends count on, and that has nothing to do with what you look like in a wetsuit.
Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday morning is dry skills + EFR review. Saturday afternoon and Sunday are in-water rotations. We finish by 5 each day so you can have dinner and sleep.
Tickets are transferable. If you can't make it, give your spot to a buddy. Refunds available up to 60 days before the event.
Tigertail Lake is in Dania Beach, 10 minutes from FLL airport. We have a partner hotel rate (sent with confirmation). Drive-to divers in South FL: easy day trip both days.