The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Course with Oceandivers

It happens: People accidentally drop things from harbours, off boats or even while scuba diving. If you’ve ever lost something in the water and wanted to go find it, then the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. There are effective ways to search for objects underwater that increase your chances of success. And there are good and better methods to bring up small, large or just awkward items. Search and recovery can be challenging, but a whole lot of fun.

The Fun Part

The fun part of this course is giving your dive skills a polish you may not have thought possible.


What You Learn

  • Search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems

  • How to locate large and small objects using search patterns

  • How to use a lift bag and other recovery methods

  • Limited visibility search techniques

For all your learning materials and equipment, contact Oceandivers.


Your Next Adventure

Because you often need to navigate to specific spots to find lost items, the Underwater Navigator course can help you perfect your navigation skills.

For more information about this or other PADI courses have a chat with one of the Oceandivers Team members.

Course costs

For full cost breakdown just click on the link to our Prices Page and scroll to the course you need.

Got a Question?

Do feel free to give us a call or drop us an email, but you will also find the answers to many common questions about learning to dive on our FAQs page here. 

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