PADI Search And Recovery Specialty
Retrieve lost items and Learn effective swimming patterns and using a lift bag for heavy objects.
Who should take this course?
It happens: People accidentally drop things from docks, off boats or even while scuba diving. If you’ve ever lost something in the water and wanted to find it, then the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. There are effective ways to search for objects underwater that increase your chances of success. And there are good and better methods to bring up small, large or just awkward items. Search, and recovery can be challenging, but a whole lot of fun.
PADI (Junior) Advanced Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old can enrol in the Search and Recover Diver course. PADI (Junior) Open Water Divers with a PADI Underwater Navigator certification also qualify.
What will you learn?
Gathering information and resources, then carefully planning a search are the first important steps you learn. During four scuba dives you’ll practise:
Swimming search patterns using your compass and natural navigation.
Locating large and small objects using various search patterns.
Using a lift bag for large or heavy objects, plus other recovery methods.
Planning a search operation based on facts gathered about a lost object prior to the dive.
Circular, expanding square, jack stay, u pattern
bowline, sheet bend, two half hitches
lift bag operation (correctly use the dump valve, use smb as lift bag
selecting correct lift bag for an object to be lifted (displacement formula)
recovering lost objects (gear, camera, treasure).
The first dive of this PADI Specialty Diver course may credit as an Adventure Dive toward your Advanced Open Water Diver certification – ask your instructor about earning credit.

Cressi Taipan Dive Knife
Aqualung Neoprene Leg Strap
Rob Allen Snapper Mask BK/BK
PADI Deep Diver Specialty 40m
Discover Local Diving in Melbourne
Mac Pacific Junior Diving Scissors / Knife
Apeks XTX50 Sidemount Regulator Set
Hollis Storage Pocket with SS Snaps
Aqualung SeaFlare Plus Dive Light Pack 1750lm
Apeks WSX45 Sidemount Wing
Hollis M1 Mask
Cressi Donatello Console 2 Computer + SPG
Apeks Luna Torch 2000Lm 24hrs Burn Time
Aqualung Legend 3 Octopus
Aqualung Helix Regulator Set Yoke W/Spg & Case
Gear Keeper Camera Retractor / Console with S/S Clip
Apeks Lifeline Spool Kit 15mtr
Oceanic Alpha 8 Second Stage Only
PADI RDP Table
