Specialist First Response Training (SFRT)

DAN & PADI O2 Instructor

All Instructors know the importance of providing oxygen at the scene of a dive accident. Shouldn't you be able to offer a student comprehensive training in the use of oxygen equipment?

Any PADI Assistant Instructor or Instructor, who has the DAN Oxygen Provider rating (and/or PADI Oxygen First Aid certification) and has current CPR training, is eligible to become a DAN O2 Instructor (and PADI Oxygen First Aid Specialty Instructor).

Offering the DAN Oxygen Provider course is a great way to add to student learning during Rescue / MFA programs. It's a fun
and easy way to increase the number of Specialties you teach as well as an opportunity to get non-divers or local staff involved in dive training.

The one-day program includes review of Instructor and student
Manual/Materials, DAN O2 slides and DAN O2 video. Practice sessions include:
Role model demonstrations and Micro Teaching Presentations.

PADI Emergency First Response Instructor

To become a PADI Emergency First Response (EFR) Instructor, you you'll need to be a PADI Instructor or Assistant Instructor who has satisfactorily completed an EFR Instructor Training program. As an EFR Instructor, you may conduct EFR programs for divers and non-divers who want CPR and first aid training including basic emergency medical care knowledge and skills.

To enroll in a PADI EFR Instructor Training program, you'll need to:

1. Be either a PADI Assistant Instructor (certified/upgraded using the 1995 revised curriculum), or a PADI Instructor, or have completed an IDC/IOC within the past 12 months.
2. Have successfully completed an EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE program as a student.

Training and Certification Teaching Status PADI Program Directors who are also PADI EFR Instructor Trainers may conduct PADI EFR Instructor Training programs. The EFR Instructor Training program teaches instructor candidates to conduct the seven modules of the EFR program including: Primary Assessment, CPR, Obstructed Airway, Control of Bleeding, Shock Management, Illness Assessment and Injury Assessment.

Once you complete the PADI EFR Instructor Training program, please submit to the appropriate PADI office a completed application signed by the PADI Program Director who conducted the training along with a photo and your processing fee. Only renewed PADI Instructors and Assistant Instructors may apply for EFR Instructor certification. If you're an instructor candidate, but not a PADI Assistant Instructor, you may apply for EFR Instructor certification only after becoming certified as PADI
Instructor.