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SSI React Right & Rescue Course
Mae Haad, Koh Tao · Starts daily
$567
per person · first aid certification included ฿17,000
About this course
Rescue training, plus the first aid it assumes you already have.
The rescue course requires current CPR, first aid and oxygen training before you can certify. Most people don't have it. This version simply includes it — you do React Right first, then the full Stress & Rescue course, and leave with two certifications.
The rescue half is the same course that divers consistently name as the one that made them better: less about new diving skills, more about watching people properly and acting early.
The first aid half is not diving-specific and doesn't expire the moment you leave the island. It's genuinely useful training.
Course structure
Your day-by-day journey
Day 1 — Primary assessment, CPR, AED use, secondary care and administering emergency oxygen — the last of which matters more in diving than almost anything else.
Skills you'll earn
What you'll be able to do
CPR, AED use and emergency oxygen administration Primary and secondary casualty assessment Recognising stress in another diver early Surface assists and unresponsive diver recovery Running an emergency end to end
Certification
What you take home
SSI React Right + Stress & Rescue Diver
Two lifetime certifications. React Right covers CPR, first aid and oxygen provision — valid for 24 months as a diving prerequisite. Stress & Rescue is a prerequisite for the Divemaster track.
Two certificationsDivemaster prerequisite4 logged divesNothing else needed
What's included
What the price covers
- All dive equipment for the length of the course
- A dive computer to use, free
- Digital learning materials and your certification
- Boat trips, with drinks and snacks aboard
- 30 days of dive accident insurance
- A free T-shirt, and 10% off anything you book afterwards
Honest Corner
— real talk before you enrolYou'll love this if…
- Nothing assumed — you arrive with an Open Water card and leave fully qualified
- The first aid training is useful well beyond diving
- Two certifications for ฿5,500 more than the rescue course alone
Worth knowing before you enrol
- Four days rather than three
- If your CPR and first aid are already current, the ฿11,500 rescue-only course is the same rescue training for less
- Physically demanding — the recovery drills are real work
Student fit
Who's this course for?
Great fit
🩹
No current first aid
Which is most people. This is the version that doesn't leave you stuck at the last hurdle.
Great fit
📈
Divemaster hopefuls
Both certifications are prerequisites. Doing them together saves a booking and some money.
Great fit
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Serious divers
The single course most likely to change how you dive with other people.
Maybe
✅
Already first-aid trained
Within the last 24 months? Take the ฿11,500 Stress & Rescue course instead.
Not for you
Common questions
