PADI Rescue Diver

The Rescue Diver course at Scuba Point prepares you to manage stress and rescue situations involving other divers. It is a significant step up from the Advanced Open Water in terms of what is expected of you in the water — less about exploring dive sites, more about handling scenarios where things go wrong. The course runs off the south Tenerife coast, using the same open-water sites as Scuba Point's guided excursions.

PADI Rescue Diver is the gateway course to the leadership track. At Scuba Point it is priced at €440 (€396 online), consistent with the Open Water and Advanced pricing. For those who want to add first aid training to the package, the combined Rescue Diver plus Emergency First Response course is available at €750 (€675 online) — extending the in-water rescue skills into daily-life accident response.

The Rescue Diver course demands an Advanced Open Water certification as a prerequisite. The Atlantic conditions off Tenerife's south coast give the rescue scenarios a realistic open-ocean context — not just controlled pool work. Scuba Point's instructors are PADI-certified and the school has been running these sites for four years, which gives the team solid familiarity with the local conditions used for practical exercises.

Completing the Rescue Diver at Scuba Point also positions you to continue directly to the Divemaster course, which the school runs at €790. The team is small — Marcos, Gonza, and Eliana — which tends to mean more direct instructor engagement during a course like this than you would get at a larger operation with rotating staff.