Now is the time to dive into the PADI Open Water Diver course, the most popular dive program in the world!

Continuing the adventure is one of the best moves you can make. The PADI Adventures in Diving, PADI Specialty Diver and PADI Rescue Diver programs have some great benefits.

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The PADI Adventures in Diving, PADI Specialty Diver and PADI Rescue Diver programs have some great benefits.

By going beyond Open Water Diver, you can:

  • Learn additional skills specific to your interests
  • Be more confident in and around the water
  • Continue to develop your dive skills
  • Better understand the aquatic world
  • Dive where only divers with advanced training can

With BellyUp Diving you can continue your adventure with the following courses:

  • Adventure Diver
  • Advanced Open Water
  • Rescue Diver
  • Master Diver
  • Altitude Diver
  • AWARE - Fish Identification
  • AWARE - Coral Reef Conservation
  • Boat Diver
  • Cavern Diver
  • Deep Diver
  • Digital Underwater Photographer
  • Dive Propulsion Vehicle Diver
  • Drift Diver
  • Dry Suit Diver
  • Enriched Air Diver
  • Equipment Specialist
  • Ice Diver
  • Multilevel Diver
  • Night Diver
  • Peak Performance Bouyancy
  • Search & Recovery Diver
  • Semiclosed Rebreather
  • Underwater Naturalist
  • Underwater Navigator
  • Underwater Photographer
  • Underwater Videographer
  • Wreck Diver

EFR Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) Course
Emergency First Response Primary Care (CPR) teaches participants how to respond to life-threatening emergencies. The course focuses on primary care through a combination of knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice to make sure participants have the confidence in their ability to provide care when emergency situations arise. Primary Care (CPR) skills taught in this course:

  • Scene Safety Assessment
  • Universal Precautions - Communicable Disease Protection, including barrier use
  • Primary Assessment
  • Rescue Breathing
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • Conscious and Unconscious Obstructed Airway Management
  • Serious Bleeding Management
  • Shock Management
  • Spinal Injury Management
  • Recommended Skills
       o Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training
       o Emergency Oxygen Use Orientation.

Emergency First Response Secondary Care (First Aid) Course Content
Emergency First Response Secondary Care (first aid) covers injuries or illnesses that are not immediately life threatening. Participants focus on secondary assessment and first aid through knowledge development, skill development and realistic scenario practice.

Secondary Skills taught in this course:

  • Injury Assessment
  • Illness Assessment
  • Bandaging
  • Splinting for Dislocations and Fractures

Includes Reference Section on the following topics: Allergic Reactions, Bruises, Burns, Chemical Burns, CPR (adult, child, infant) Choking (adult and infant), Cone Shell Stings, Coral, Jellyfish and Hydroid Stings, Cuts, Dental Injuries, Diabetic Problems, Dislocations and Fractures, Electrical Injuries, Eye Injuries, First Aid Kit Assembly, Fish Spine Injury, Frostbite, Heat Exhaustion, Heatstroke, Heart Attack, Hypothermia, Illness Assessment, Injury Assessment, Insect Stings, Octopus Bites, Poisoning, Rescue Breathing (adult, child, infant) Scrapes, Seizures, Snake Bites, Spider Bites, Sprains and Strains, Stroke, Temperature Related Injuries, Venomous Bites and Stings, and Illness Assessment Record Sheet.

Emergency First Response Care for Children Course

The Emergency First Response Care for Children course is an innovative CPR, AED and First Aid training course that teaches participants how to provide emergency care for injured or ill children (ages one to eight) and infants less than one year old. Participants learn about the types of medical emergencies that children face, and how they differ from adult conditions. The curriculum also includes the importance of attending to basic emergency situations with children, the emotional aspects of caring for children, secondary care for children, and preventing common injuries and illnesses in children.

Emergency First Response Care for Children course trains the lay rescuer to follow the same priorities of care used by medical professionals. The student masters the priorities and the procedures of patient care for infants and children in a non-stressful learning environment, which reduces the performance anxieties that interfere with learning and enhances confidence when rendering aid in a real medical emergency.

The course includes both primary care (CPR) and secondary care (first aid) skills. The primary care portion of the course prepares the rescuer to render aid to an infant or child with a life-threatening emergency such as choking or cardiac arrest. Secondary care focuses on developing secondary patient care skills and building the rescuer's confidence to render first aid to an infant or child in need when emergency medical services are either delayed or unavailable. The Care for Children course content is based on guidelines from the Pediatric Working Group of ILCOR.

Care for Children Primary Care Course Content:
Scene Safety Assessment Universal Precautions-Communicable Disease Protection & Barrier Use Primary Assessment Obstructed Airway Management (child and infant) Rescue Breathing (child and infant) Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (child and infant) Automated External Defibrillator (AED) use Serious Bleeding Shock Management Spinal Injury Management.

Care for Children Secondary Care Course Content:

  • Injury Assessment
  • Bandaging
  • Illness Assessment.

DAN

Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries
As a recreational diver, you can receive training to provide vital first aid that can make a difference to a scuba diver with decompression illness. The DAN Oxygen Provider Course provides entry-level training in the recognition and management of possible diving-related injuries using emergency oxygen first aid.

Oxygen First Aid for Aquatic Emergencies
This course trains non-divers and professional rescuers (such as lifeguards) to recognize near-drowning / submersion incidents and other aquatic medical emergencies and to provide basic life support including the use of oxygen first aid.

Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries
This advanced-level program is designed to train existing DAN Oxygen Providers to use the MTV-100 or a Bag Valve Mask while providing care for a non-breathing injured diver.

First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries
Serious hazardous marine life injuries are rare, but most divers experience minor discomfort from unintentional encounters with fire coral, jellyfish and other marine creatures. This course teaches divers to minimize these injuries and reduce diver discomfort and pain.

Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving
More than 10 percent of all dive fatalities are actually caused by cardiovascular disease, according to DAN dive accident and fatality statistics. This course teaches divers and other interested parties to provide care for sudden cardiac arrest including the use of an automated external defibrillator (AEDs).

Automated External Defibrillators for Aquatic Emergencies
When a person drowns, they may or may not inhale water. They normally enter cardiac arrest because of the inability to breathe. This course teaches interested parties to provide care for cardiac arrest by using an automated external defibrillator (AED).

Basic Life Support for Dive Professionals
The remote nature of dive accidents, whether a few hours from shore or days from civilization, frequently requires more advanced levels of care than are offered by traditional or entry-level CPR programs.

Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen (REMO2.)
The DAN Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen (REMO2.) system module supplements the DAN Oxygen First Aid in Scuba Diving Injuries course. Based on medical closed-circuit oxygen rebreather technology, the REMO2. device provides injured divers with high concentrations of emergency oxygen for extended periods. This training course instructs the Oxygen Provider in the use of DAN's new REMO2. system.

On-Site Neurological Assessment for Divers
Learn how to conduct a neurological assessment on a potentially injured diver in this course. The information gained in this assessment can help convince a diver of the need for oxygen first aid, and help a dive physician determine the proper treatment.

Dive Accident First Aid for Non-Divers
This program is designed for nondivers and teaches them how to recognize the warning signs of decompression illness and help provide care for a diver involved in a dive emergency.

Diving Emergency Management Provider Program
Learn the knowledge and skills from several courses into one single approach to dive emergency management.

Diving Emergency Specialist (DES)
Learn about DAN.s new recognition program for divers who are interested in dive safety.

Instructor Qualification Course
To become a DAN Instructor you must complete the Instructor Qualification Course (IQC). Instructor Candidates will complete a Core Module that offers more information about DAN and explains how to teach DAN programs. Candidates will then complete the course module for each DAN Training Program they are interested in teaching.


EFR Complete Emergency Care Training
MEDIC FIRST AID Training Programs cover first aid, CPR, AED, bloodborne pathogens, emergency oxygen, and OSHA safety compliance. Courses teach emergency medical response skills to businesses, industries, schools, government agencies, and lay responders to emergency crises.

MEDIC FIRST AID Training Programs offer these advantages to students and instructors:

  • Easy-learning, low-stress class environment
  • Lots of confidence building, hands-on practice
  • Excellent printed support materials
  • Easy-to-use Facilitator Guide
  • Professional Facilitator training courses

Core Training Programs

  • Basic (Adult CPR, AED, and First Aid)
  • Pediatric (Child, Infant, and Adult CPR and First Aid)
  • Basic, for Corrections and Law Enforcemen.
  • Basic Life Support for Professionals.
  • CarePlus CPR. (Adult, Child, and Infant CPR)

Supplemental Training Programs

  • Advanced First Aid Supplement
  • AED Supplement (Automated External Defibrillator)
  • Bloodborne Pathogens
  • Emergency Care (First Aid)
  • Emergency Oxygen Supplement
  • Infant/Child Supplement (CPR)

Specialized Training Videos & Programs

  • Specific First Aid Topics
  • Health & Safety Topics
  • Responding to Student Injury & Illness

Facilitator Support Programs

  • Translated Core Training Programs
  • Facilitator Training Materials
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