Rescue diver

I am now a PADI Certified Rescue Diver! The course was an intense 4 days and included lots of towing people and dragging people much larger than me out of the water and onto boats. We learned how to anticipate and deal with panicked or non-responsive divers, give rescue breaths while towing people, administer emergency o2 on the boat, and missing diver search techniques. My favorite manuver is for the panicked diver who won't fill their BCD or tries to climb onto you. Swim down and around them, drop their weight belt, then bucking bronco it on their tank as you grab their inflater hose and fill the BCD. Then they realize they are not drowning. We had scenarios where the DM's pretended to be awful divers with every problem going wrong. John bolted off as soon as we got in the water. I chased him down then delt with him loosing a mask, a fin, a weight belt, a tank coming loose, a hose getting disconnected, drag him down as he tried to randomly ascend and even replace his regulator after he ripped mine out of my mouth. Then to top it all off tow him to the boat while giving rescue breaths and removing gear. In another scenario Michelle and I had to find the "missing diver" (a creepy doll) with a vague description of where he was last seen on the reef.  

The course was all pretty hectic and intense but a lot of fun! Now I feel like a much more skilled and prepared diver.