SSI React Right Course in Andaman - CPR & First Aid for Everyone

The course runs in two parts. First, you work through the SSI digital material independently, at your own pace, completing the knowledge review questions of each chapter. You'll find Primary Care, Secondary Care, oxygen administration, and AED, each broken into its own module. You can start this from home with our 1:1 guidance over the phone, whenever suits you, well before you land on Havelock.

The second part is two days with me in person, where the three ideas — Recognise, Respond, Restrict — actually become physical skill. I intentionally keep it to two days so slower learners, and divers aiming to become professionals, get the chance to practice the drills in depth.

We start with Primary Care: the eight core skills for the first critical minutes of an emergency — scene assessment, using barrier devices and gloves before you touch anyone, CPR, rescue breathing, and controlling serious bleeding. One detail people don't expect: if I suspect a spinal injury, I open the airway with a jaw-thrust instead of the usual head-tilt/chin-lift — that kind of judgment call is exactly what the course drills into you, not just the mechanics of compressions.

From there we move into Secondary Care — what to do once the patient is stable: shock management, splinting, bandaging, and assessing injuries that aren't immediately life-threatening. I cover how to prevent disease transmission, use personal protective equipment, and what the Good Samaritan law actually protects you for when you step in to help — genuinely useful to know, and rarely explained clearly anywhere else.

On the diving side specifically, you learn to recognize different oxygen tank valve and mask types and when each is used, since oxygen is the standard first response to most pressure-related diving injuries like decompression sickness. AED training closes it out — what's actually inside those wall-mounted emergency boxes, and how to use one on a cardiac arrest or drowning victim.

The last stretch is realistic scenario practice — I set up situations for you to work through as if they were real, which is usually where people relax and actually start enjoying it. The two days wrap with a written final exam, and your digital certification lands on your MySSI app the same day. If you're already a certified diver, the two bonus fun dives slot in here too. I prefer to take students out for those dives and arrange practical drills, so you walk away genuinely ready for an emergency, whether it happens on land or underwater.