SSI Diver Stress and Rescue

The SSI Diver Stress and Rescue course at Dive Rutland is priced at £500. It's a substantial step in diver development — the point where you stop thinking only about your own diving and start taking responsibility for what happens to others in the water.

The pool sessions and open water components are run by instructors trained under SSI Instructor Trainer Tracey Roberts, who also leads the in-house first aid training programme. The combination of rescue diving and the centre's extensive first aid course catalogue — including Emergency First Aid at Work and CPR/AED qualifications — means divers can build a complete emergency response skill set in one place.

For divers aiming toward SSI Divemaster (£900) or the Assistant Instructor Course (£1,650), the Rescue qualification sits on the professional pathway and is a natural precursor. The centre runs the full professional track through to instructor level.

This is also a course that changes how recreational divers approach their own diving — attentiveness to buddy behaviour, recognising stress signals, managing a tired or panicking diver at the surface. The skills carry into every dive after.