Description
🌊 Diving training for lifeguards with Daivings.lv
The aquatic environment requires the highest level of preparedness, stress resistance, and lightning-fast action in emergency situations. Daivings.lv offers specialized internationally recognized (PADI / Public Safety Diver / Rescue Diver) training programs designed for firefighters, municipal police rescue services, reservoir managers and anyone who wants to learn professional underwater rescue skills.
Club manager and head instructor Valters Preimanis has gained practical experience as a firefighter-rescuer in the State Fire and Rescue Service (VUGD) and has performed more than 5,000 dives, providing the highest level of realistic and safe training.
📋 Course content and skills to be learned
The training program covers both theoretical knowledge and intensive practical exercises in the pool and open water:
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Stress management and prevention: Recognizing signs of stress before diving and in the water, preventing panic.
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Search and rescue tactics: Searching for victims and missing items/objects in poor visibility conditions using rope signals and search nets.
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Removal and transportation of the victim: Safely bringing a conscious or unconscious diver/swimmer to the surface and onto shore or a floating vessel.
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First aid and oxygen therapy: Providing emergency assistance in cases of drowning, using oxygen equipment (O2) and AED defibrillators.
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Handling emergencies underwater: Dealing with equipment failures, air supply interruptions and entanglement in obstacles.
🏆 Certification and benefits to be obtained
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International certificate: Upon successful completion of the course, participants receive an internationally recognized PADI Rescue Diver (or specialized public safety diver) certificate.
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Qualification improvement: Willingness to work in real and complex water rescue operations.
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A step towards becoming a professional: Opportunity to continue growing up to Divemaster or professional diver level.
📍 Training venues and equipment
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Theory and practical lessons: In Riga and Mārupe region (in a specifically adapted 3-meter deep pool in Pinki).
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Open water sessions: Slokas dolomite quarry, Saurieši quarry or the Baltic Sea.
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Off-site training: Training is available for groups of organizations and services throughout Latvia.
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Equipment: We provide all necessary diving and rescue equipment.
🎯 Requirements for candidates
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Minimum age: 18 years old (or 12 years old for Junior Rescue Diver level).
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Prerequisites: Open Water Diver / Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent certificate.
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Valid first aid (EFR – Emergency First Response) course.
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Good swimming skills and appropriate health condition.
📞 Login and contacts
Contact us to register individually or to register a rescue team.
