In addition to the PADI Rescue Diver course, Cordova Diving is proud to offer more specialized safety and first aid courses to guests of the Bridge @ Cordova.  These courses not only look good on a resume, but actually increase the students ability to respond to common aquatic or diving accidents.  Guests can train for a few hours in the evenings after day work and satisfy their refresher course requirements or earn their initial certifications in Primary Care (CPR), Secondary Care (First Aid) or Care for Children through Emergency First Response Corporation (EFR).  Similarly, they can satisfy their refresher course requirements or earn their initial certification in the various DAN courses in aquatic and scuba diving safety. 

    The EFR classes utilize independent study with skill development and scenario practice with an instructor.   They follow the same care priorities used by paramedics and the protocols from the consensus view of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR).   The Primary Care course covers emergency care for most life-threatening situations and focuses on the ABCD’s of primary care.  The Secondary Care course assumes that the student will need to also provide secondary care or first aid, and covers injury and illness assessment, bandaging, and splinting for dislocations and fractures.  The Emergency Care for Children course focuses and the appropriate Primary and Secondary care for small children or infants.  These courses anticipate that the student will spend approximately 4 hours in independent study preparing for a written final examination and another 4 hours practicing skills under an instructor’s guidance. 

    The Divers Alert Network courses also anticipate that the student will spend time in independent study or taking an online course for the academic portion of the course.  The time spent with an instructor will be spent practicing skills or engaging in various scenarios designed to afford the student an opportunity to analyze a problem as it is likely to arise in real life.  Cordova Diving offers the following DAN courses:

    •    the entry level Oxygen provider course for scuba diving injuries,

    •    the entry level Oxygen provider course for aquatic emergencies,
    •    the Advanced Oxygen provider course for scuba divers,
    •    First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries,
    •    AEDs for scuba diving,
    •    AEDs for aquatic emergencies,
    •    On-site Neurological Assessment for Divers, and
    •    Basic Life Support for Scuba Diving Professionals

In addition, Cordova Diving offers the Dive Emergency Specialist and Dive Emergency Management Provider certifications, which are streamlined presentations of several of the underlying DAN courses.  You can register for courses or obtain more information by calling the Bridge @ Cordova at (954) 525-2323 or by calling Michael at Cordova Diving at (954) 673-6484.