Dive Medicine Course
Take your medical skills beneath the surface.
This five-day Dive Medicine Course in Egypt equips healthcare professionals with the knowledge and practical skills to assess, manage and treat diving-related medical emergencies in remote and expedition environments.
Based on Egypt’s spectacular Red Sea coastline at ORCA Dive Club Wadi Lahmy, you’ll combine focused teaching, practical workshops and immersive diving experiences while learning alongside leading experts in expedition and dive medicine.
Throughout the week you’ll apply dive medicine principles directly in the environments where these incidents occur, developing confidence in assessment, decision making and patient management beneath the surface.
Combining classroom teaching with boat dives, house reef diving and realistic clinical scenarios, this is a unique opportunity to learn dive medicine where it happens.
Please note: This course has relocated from Oman to Egypt as part of our ongoing commitment to the safety and wellbeing of our faculty and attendees. The course content, learning outcomes and immersive practical experience remain at the heart of the programme.
Dive Medicine Course
Course Content
Core Principles of Dive Medicine
You’ll begin by covering the foundational physiology and principles that underpin safe diving practice. This includes fitness to dive, pre-existing medical conditions, decompression illness, barotrauma, nitrogen narcosis, and risk assessment. Teaching focuses on recognising early signs of illness and adapting medical decision-making to underwater and remote marine environments.
Diving-Related Emergencies & Marine Hazards
This section focuses on the assessment and management of common and high-risk dive-related presentations, including decompression illness, marine envenomation, seafood toxidromes, hazardous marine life encounters, and oxygen administration. Practical sessions reinforce emergency response protocols and treatment pathways.
Remote & Expedition Dive Medicine
You’ll explore how dive medicine is delivered in isolated and resource-limited settings. Topics include medical kit planning, oxygen and emergency equipment on boats, volunteer marine expeditions, specialist diving considerations, and managing medical cases when evacuation options are delayed or limited.
Practical Diving, Rescue & Operational Skills
Across the course, you’ll complete 10 dives, applying medical knowledge in real time. Sessions include neurological assessment post-dive, in-water and chamber recompression theory, full face mask use, drowning and hypothermia management, and scenario-based problem solving, culminating in integrated practical debriefs.
Your Teaching Faculty
Aaron Gao
Mike Smith
Red Sea, Egypt
What's Included?
Field-Based Training & Practical Diving
A fully immersive programme combining lectures, workshops, and scenario-based learning delivered both on board and in the water.
Red Sea Diving Experience
This course includes two dives per day, with three days of boat diving and two days exploring the Wadi Lahmy house reef. Dive tanks, gas and weights are included.
On the final day, participants with onward travel within 24 hours of the course ending can choose to snorkel instead of dive, in line with recommended post-diving flight safety guidance.
Accommodation, Meals & Transfers
Five nights at Wadi Lahmy Azur Resort on a soft all-inclusive basis, including meals, snacks, soft drinks, water and scheduled group transfers from Marsa Alam Airport.
Please note that alcoholic beverages are not included in the course fee.
What past attendees say
“The whole team was amazing, Aaron was particularly great with me and Mike’s experience was great to hear from and learn from as well. The Dhow team was also exceptional and constantly looked after! ”
“I appreciate everybody who created this course. I am looking forward to seeing it grow and greateful to become a part of this community ”
“You’re doing a great job – both in the office and in the field. These courses are really fun, while making better medics out of all of us and ultimately saving lives and limbs in the process… ”
“I highly recommend this venue, one of the call card for many of us was the unique venue. Please use this venue again ”
Resources
This course is designed for healthcare professionals and students looking to apply their medical skills to diving, expedition, and marine environments.
It’s particularly suited to doctors, paramedics, nurses, and medical professionals supporting dive teams or expeditions.
If you’re unsure whether this course is the right fit, we recommend using the Course Fit Checker or booking a discovery call.
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