Search and Recovery Diver
Finding items underwater is both challenging and rewarding. You need to know how to gather information, organize a search and choose an effective underwater search pattern. Your PADI Instructor will give you practice scenarios to build and hone your skills.
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About the Course
The next time someone loses an item underwater, you can be the hero that finds the missing object.
In the PADI® Search and Recovery course, you’ll learn how to find lost objects underwater. You’ll practice different types of underwater search patterns and learn how to use a lift bag as you plan and execute mock search operations.
Take This Course If You Want to
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Recover lost items
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Learn underwater search patterns
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Improve your navigation skills
Learn How to
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Find things underwater
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Use a lift bag
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Plan a search operation
With Your Instructor
During four dives, you'll locate objects large and small using different search patterns. You’ll get hands-on experience using a lift bag and, on the last dive, you’ll plan and execute a mock search operation.
- Total time commitment: 2-3 days (dives must be completed over two days minimum)
Prerequisites & Minimum Age
Minimum Age: 12
Course prerequisites: (Jr.) Advanced Open Water or (Jr.) Open Water with Underwater Navigation certification
