Advance your skills and become an elite professional. The Advanced Public Safety Diver prepares you for more challenging public safety diving operations away from shore. Practice vehicle-related victim rescue and how to mark, recover and handle evidence.
Prepare for missions away from shore. Gain experience through realistic scenarios and learn about the law enforcement aspects of public safety diving, such as how to mark and collect evidence
Complete the independent study part of your course online or offline. Contact a PADI Dive Shop or PADI Professional who offers public safety dive training to get access to online study materials and schedule inwater sessions.
Time commitment: 4-6 hours
During six open water dives, practice different search patterns and evidence collection. Work as a team to complete simulated victim rescue missions.
Time commitment: 3-4 days
Seek out additional public safety diver training and consider becoming an Emergency First Response Instructor so that you can offer CPR and first aid training to team members. Completing the PADI Dry Suit Diver and Full Face Mask Diver courses may help you better prepare for working as a public safety diver. Every PADI Specialty you earn gets you one step closer to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver.