PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Course
Any level of diver can participate in the Emergency Oxygen Provider Course.
In fact, you don't even need a diving qualification in order to do the course as these essential skills are handy to have on-board any dive boat or even in snorkelling situations.
WHAT is all the fuss about?
The PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Course will teach you how to identify when emergency oxygen is needed, and how to administer the oxygen to save someone's life and reduce their risk of further injury.
Learn the essential skills involved in handling an emergency situation - what signs and symptoms to look out for, what those signs mean, and how to act accordingly.
You'll learn how to handle the equipment with confidence so that should the need arise, you won't be nervous in your abilities to do things correctly.
By the time the course is over, you'll consider yourself an expert in how to handle situations where you have a breathing or non-breathing diver.
In the case of a non-breathing victim, you'll be taught how to use a pocket mask to administer rescue breaths, whilst if the diver is breathing you'll know how to use a non-rebreather mask and a demand inhalator valve.
WHERE will it take me?
If you're hoping to one day become a rescue diver or moving onwards to semi-professional dive master level, this course is a must.
WHY should I be excited?
Having the knowledge to save someone's life is an exciting concept and something you can be exceptionally proud of.
HOW do I do it?
All you need is a disposable non-rebreather mask to practice with, and the course instructors will provide the rest.
A non-rebreather mask is a good item to carry with you on any dive as it will come in excellent use in an emergency situation.
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Specialty dive courses. Any level of diver can take the Emergency Oxygen Provider course — in fact, you don't need a diving qualification at all. That's the point: oxygen is the first and best response to a suspected decompression incident, and the person who knows how to deliver it might be a non-diving spouse on the boat. These are skills worth having on any dive boat, and in snorkelling situations too.
What will I learn? Recognising the injuries and symptoms where emergency oxygen helps — decompression illness, near-drowning — and the hands-on competence that matters when it counts: setting up equipment, delivering oxygen to a breathing and a non-breathing person, and managing the situation until professional care takes over. It's a short, practical course: knowledge development plus equipment practice, no dives required.
Who should genuinely take it: dive buddies and spouses who ride along, group leaders, anyone whose diving happens in remote places — which, let's be honest, describes these islands: superb operators carry oxygen kits here precisely because hyperbaric care is regional, and a trained extra pair of hands is never wasted. It also pairs naturally with Rescue Diver training and refreshes the safety chapter every diver skimmed.
Our Health & Safety page lists the DAN emergency numbers worth saving regardless. Contact us to fit this course into a surface afternoon — it takes little time and upgrades the whole boat.