Digital learning
SSI Stress & Rescue digital materials and a digital logbook, yours to keep.
SSI Stress & Rescue
Rescue Diver
Anticipate problems, spot stress early, and handle emergencies with a calm head.
SSI Stress & Rescue
Anticipate problems, spot stress early, and handle emergencies with a calm head.
Prevent and manage
Rescue moves your attention from yourself to everyone around you: preventing problems, recognising stress early, and acting decisively when it matters.
Stress & Rescue trains you to prevent accidents and to respond when prevention fails. You learn to read body language, defuse stress before it becomes panic, and carry out self rescue and diver rescue techniques.
All prices in IDR · Marine Park fee of IDR 100,000 not included.
What is Stress & Rescue?
Stress & Rescue trains you to prevent accidents and to respond when prevention fails. You learn to read body language, defuse stress before it becomes panic, and carry out self rescue and diver rescue techniques.
It pairs with React Right, the first aid, CPR, oxygen and AED course. Together they are the foundation for the Divemaster rating, and for being the diver everyone wants as a buddy.
You build each response until it is automatic, then prove it in the ocean.
SSI digital learning on stress, prevention and accident management: how to spot the small signs of stress on the boat and on the surface long before they become panic, and how an emergency is actually managed. If you do not already hold a first aid and CPR certification taken in the last 24 months, we run React Right for you first, which covers first aid, CPR, oxygen and AED.
In shallow water you practise the mechanics on their own: self rescue, cramp removal, towing a tired diver, approaching and controlling a panicked diver, and bringing an unresponsive diver to the surface while giving rescue breaths. You repeat each one until you stop having to think about it.
Your instructor stages realistic emergencies on the reef, in scenarios that run to a maximum of 30 m: a panicked diver at the surface, a missing buddy and a search pattern, an unresponsive diver at depth. You manage each one from the first signal through the tow, the exit and the handover, and then we take it apart together.
Message us to schedule your Rescue course and, if you need it, React Right.
Everything you need is included, so you can focus on the diving.
SSI Stress & Rescue digital materials and a digital logbook, yours to keep.
An SSI instructor staging and supervising every scenario.
Confined water skill practice and open water rescue scenarios.
Course insurance, your certification fee and your SSI Diver Stress & Rescue card.
Course requirements
Rescue asks a little more of you than earlier courses. To join you need to:
Why Gili Air
Gili Air's calm, protected sites let you concentrate on scenarios instead of fighting current or cold. Warm water around 28 to 30 degrees and short boat rides mean more practice and less fatigue.
Varied reefs and easy shore access give your instructor plenty of realistic settings to stage a rescue, on the surface and below it.
Four students per instructor at most, so you are never a number in a crowd.
Instructors who grew up diving these reefs and know every site by heart.
Study online at your own pace, then spend your water time actually diving, not sat in a classroom.
Clear prices and quality rental gear, with no hidden extras beyond the Marine Park fee.
It is the most demanding recreational course and also the one divers enjoy most. You will be challenged, and you will finish far more confident.
Yes, a current first aid and CPR certification. If you do not have one, we run the React Right course for you as part of your training.
Yes. Your instructor stages realistic scenarios in the water, from tired and panicked divers to an unresponsive diver at depth.
An SSI Advanced Adventurer, or an equivalent certification from another agency.
Yes. Stress & Rescue and a current React Right are required before you can begin the Divemaster program.
It needs to have been taken within the last 24 months. If yours has lapsed, or you have never done one, we run React Right, the SSI first aid, CPR, oxygen and AED course, before or alongside your Rescue training.
You need to be in good general health and comfortable working in the water for a while, because towing and lifting a diver is real physical effort. You do not need to be an athlete. Everyone completes the SSI medical questionnaire first, and any yes answer needs a physician's approval to dive before you start.
Come in a day early and do a refresher. If it has been more than about 12 months, we would rather rebuild your buoyancy and mask skills in a quiet pool session than have you rediscover them in the middle of a rescue scenario.
No. There is no chamber on the Gilis. The nearest is in Mataram on Lombok, and the route runs by speedboat and then ambulance, with further chambers in Bali. On this course you learn the first part of that chain yourself: recognising the symptoms, giving oxygen, and calling the DAN emergency hotline. It is also why we ask every diver here to carry insurance covering chamber treatment and evacuation.
The same rule as any multi-day diving: at least 18 hours before a flight, and a full 24 hours before a flight or the Mount Rinjani trek, because the trek climbs to altitude. Rescue days are tiring, so most people are glad of the buffer anyway.
Your instructor, the SSI Stress & Rescue digital materials, all equipment, the confined water sessions and open water scenarios, your certification fee and digital logbook. React Right is a separate course if you need it. Paid separately: the Gili Matra Marine Park fee of IDR 100,000, a one-off valid around 30 days and paid in cash to the park, the optional IDR 50,000 Gili Eco Trust donation, and personal costs such as accommodation, meals and insurance.