Learning how to respond in an emergency is one of the most valuable skills you can gain—and the Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care course gives you exactly that.
This training teaches you how to take action with confidence when every second counts, whether someone isn’t breathing, is injured, or simply needs calm support until medical help arrives. It’s practical, hands-on, and designed for anyone who wants to be ready to help save a life.
Whether you’re a scuba diver, an adventurer, or simply someone who cares about the people around you, this course empowers you to step up, not freeze.
About the Course
During the Emergency First Response primary and secondary care course, you will learn how to act in the critical moments when a life-threatening emergency occurs until the arrival of the emergency medical services.
During in-person training with an EFR instructor, you will learn how to perform CPR, provide first aid that eases pain, assess a variety of injuries and illnesses, and practice bandaging and splinting.
Completion of this program meets the First Aid/CPR course requirement for PADI Rescue Diver and PADI Divemaster certification.
What You’ll Learn in the Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care Course
In this course, you’ll learn simple, step-by-step skills to care for someone in a medical emergency, for example:
- Handling different types of sicknesses and injuries.
- Helping someone who is choking.
- How to deal with a victim having possible spinal injury.
- Applying bandages and splint.

Certification Requirements
Prerequisites
All you need to have is the desire to help others.
Time
- PADI eLearning: Around 2-4 hours.
- Entire course: About4-8 hours
Age
None
Health
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Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care Training
During the Emergency First Response Primary Care and Secondary Care course (CPR, First Aid), you will get a combination of flexible online self-study with in-person training. It’s your course at your pace. You will Practice a specific skill until you master it, then you will move to the next one.
Step 1 “PADI eLearning”
With the help of the online training, it becomes easy to fit a CPR and first aid course into your busy schedule. Watch videos for different techniques of the first aid and learn the steps you should take in an emergency. Study either online or offline, using your mobile or computer or mobile. In case of having any question, communicate with your instructor.
- eLearning time commitment: About 2-4 hours.
Step 2 “With Your Instructor”
ADDITIONAL COST: Your dive center will add training costs.
You will learn with an experted instructor about 8 essential skills that will enable you to help others in an emergency. Get hands-on experience administering CPR with the help of a special manikin, practice bandaging and splinting, and in a role-playing scenario, apply your new skills.
- Total time commitment: Around 2-4 hours.

Why Emergency First Response Course?
Emergency First Response is considered one of the largest international CPR, AED and first aid training organizations. Every day, in 170 countries worldwide, there are , 56,000 EFR Instructors help people, communities and businesses how to well prepared for emergencies.
With EFR Courses, it becomes easy to learn by providing a non-stressful environment and learning tools that helps students remember key procedures in an emergency.
Enroll Now in the Emergency First Response Course
If this post encouraged you to take this course, Enroll now in the Emergency First Response Course from DRAR DIVING Center and learn how to deal with such emergencies under thw subrivision of our experted guides.


