· Must be a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or a PADI Open Water Diver with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty (or equivalent certification from another organization)

· Must be at least 12 years old

· Number of Dives: Four

· Search patterns, lift bag use and recovery methods

· Limited visibility techniques and navigation for search and recovery

· Materials: You’ll Need Search and Recovery-Pak, which includes the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Manual and the Search and Recovery video.

· Certification counts toward the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating.

· Find what you’ve lost with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course.

The PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. You learn how to locate large and small objects using search patterns, and various ways for lifting them to the surface, and most Search and Recovery Divers eventually end up searching for and recovering something they lost themselves.