Why PADI Search and Recovery Diver?

Have you ever dropped something in the water? Are you looking for lost treasure? The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course will teach you effective ways to find objects underwater and bring them to the surface. Small, large or just awkward - there is a way to bring them up.

Pattaya, Thailand boasts some superb training conditions for this divers program. Mermaids dive center have taken things to the extreme with the S&R program, the ADVANCED S&R program and even the PERT divers program that involves rigging and lifting a car to the surface.

What do I need to start the PADI basic Search and Recovery Diver program?

What will I do?

You'll learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and potential problems. You'll also cover limited visibility, search patterns and safe object recovery using lift devices.

How long will it take?

What will I need?

Where can I go from here?

Your Adventures In Diving Search and Recovery Adventure Dive may count toward this Specialty certification at instructor discretion. This specialty can also be used as one of five Specialty certifications required for your Master Scuba Diver certification.

Mermaids Dive Career Development Center now offers (as of January 2007) the Advanced Search and Recovery Diver Course. - Distinctive specialty course.

For PADI Scuba Instructors: Mermaids Dive Career Development Center have witnessed that the scuba dive industry prefers to take diving instructors on for diver employment from the MSDT level and higher like the PADI Staff Instructor Rating. Although it is possible to achieve dive jobs directly from an IDC (Instructor Development Course), dive shop employers are more likely to offer a dive position to a professional diver that has more experience. The MSDT scuba diving rating displays that the dive instructor has good experience teaching scuba diving. The MSDT internship with PADI specialty diver courses can assist in your scuba dive career.