PADI RESCUE DIVER CORRECT EXAMS ANSWERS
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Signs/Symptoms of Heat Stroke - ✔✔Hot, dry skin
No perspiration
Patient hot to touch
✔✔Signs/Symptoms of Heat Exhaustion - ✔✔Cool, clammy skin
Patient temperature near normal
Profuse sweating
✔✔True or False: After too long in the sun wearing a dry suit, a diver is feeling very
poorly. Once out of the suit, the diver isn't sweating and feels hot to the touch. You
should call EMS and get the patient into cool water or apply cool wet towels. - ✔✔True
✔✔You and your buddy have surfaced after a long dive in cool water. You wore a dry
suit, but your buddy was in a thin wet suit. Your buddy is shivering uncontrollably, and
complains of numb fingertips and no grip strength. Your buddy's lips, fingers, and toes
appear bluish. You should begin first aid for - ✔✔Hypothermia
✔✔True or False: A diver bolts for the surface. Assisting the diver requites you to stop
the person's ascent. - ✔✔False
✔✔Fighting a current, your buddy seems to be breathing very hard and appears over
exerted. You should signal your buddy to ________ and restore normal breathing. -
✔✔Stop, hold on to a stationary object, rest
✔✔True or False: While diving on a wreck, your buddy gets some monofilament fishing
line wrapped around the tank. Your first step would to be to have your buddy turn
around. - ✔✔False
✔✔A diver is missing after a boat dive. Which of the following steps might you put into
action? - ✔✔Try to determine where the diver was last seen
, Assign spotters to look for bubbles
Call for emergency help
Assign qualified divers to begin an underwater search
If immediately available, have skin divers make the search area
✔✔True or False: When implementing a search for a missing diver, permit searches
only by buddy teams within safe gas supply, no stop time and exposure limits. Have a
way to recall searchers. - ✔✔True
✔✔A friend of yours was involved with an incident that involved a serious injury of
another person. Now your friend seems restless and depressed, and expresses feeling
guilty about what happened. Your friend - ✔✔may have critical incident stress
✔✔Decompression illness is a term that means - ✔✔decompression sickness and lung
over expansion injuries
✔✔True or false: The most common cause of lung over expansion injuries is prevented
by properly planning and managing your air. - ✔✔True
✔✔Air embolism - ✔✔gas bubble in the bloodstream
✔✔pneumothorax - ✔✔gas collapses lung
✔✔subcutaneous emphysema - ✔✔gas under the skin
✔✔mediastinal emphysema - ✔✔gas lodges in chest cavity between lungs
✔✔A diver is suspected of having DCI. The diver is breathing and responsive, and you
have contacted emergency care. Which of the following actions are also appropriate? -
✔✔Have the diver breathe emergency oxygen
Keep the diver lying down
Treat the diver for shock
Monitor the diver's breathing and heartbeat
✔✔While diving from shore, you're involved with an emergency involving a man who
has experienced drowning. He was retrieved from the water and wasn't breathing, but
resumed breathing and came back after two or three rescue breathes. He now claims
he's fine. You should respond - ✔✔that he should get medical attention because
dangerous secondary symptoms can develop hours after drowning
✔✔True or False: You're rescuing an unresponsive diver who isn't breathing. You're in
the water at the surface giving rescue breaths and estimate that you're about a 15-
minute swim to shore. After a minute of giving breaths, the victim shows no signs of
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Signs/Symptoms of Heat Stroke - ✔✔Hot, dry skin
No perspiration
Patient hot to touch
✔✔Signs/Symptoms of Heat Exhaustion - ✔✔Cool, clammy skin
Patient temperature near normal
Profuse sweating
✔✔True or False: After too long in the sun wearing a dry suit, a diver is feeling very
poorly. Once out of the suit, the diver isn't sweating and feels hot to the touch. You
should call EMS and get the patient into cool water or apply cool wet towels. - ✔✔True
✔✔You and your buddy have surfaced after a long dive in cool water. You wore a dry
suit, but your buddy was in a thin wet suit. Your buddy is shivering uncontrollably, and
complains of numb fingertips and no grip strength. Your buddy's lips, fingers, and toes
appear bluish. You should begin first aid for - ✔✔Hypothermia
✔✔True or False: A diver bolts for the surface. Assisting the diver requites you to stop
the person's ascent. - ✔✔False
✔✔Fighting a current, your buddy seems to be breathing very hard and appears over
exerted. You should signal your buddy to ________ and restore normal breathing. -
✔✔Stop, hold on to a stationary object, rest
✔✔True or False: While diving on a wreck, your buddy gets some monofilament fishing
line wrapped around the tank. Your first step would to be to have your buddy turn
around. - ✔✔False
✔✔A diver is missing after a boat dive. Which of the following steps might you put into
action? - ✔✔Try to determine where the diver was last seen
, Assign spotters to look for bubbles
Call for emergency help
Assign qualified divers to begin an underwater search
If immediately available, have skin divers make the search area
✔✔True or False: When implementing a search for a missing diver, permit searches
only by buddy teams within safe gas supply, no stop time and exposure limits. Have a
way to recall searchers. - ✔✔True
✔✔A friend of yours was involved with an incident that involved a serious injury of
another person. Now your friend seems restless and depressed, and expresses feeling
guilty about what happened. Your friend - ✔✔may have critical incident stress
✔✔Decompression illness is a term that means - ✔✔decompression sickness and lung
over expansion injuries
✔✔True or false: The most common cause of lung over expansion injuries is prevented
by properly planning and managing your air. - ✔✔True
✔✔Air embolism - ✔✔gas bubble in the bloodstream
✔✔pneumothorax - ✔✔gas collapses lung
✔✔subcutaneous emphysema - ✔✔gas under the skin
✔✔mediastinal emphysema - ✔✔gas lodges in chest cavity between lungs
✔✔A diver is suspected of having DCI. The diver is breathing and responsive, and you
have contacted emergency care. Which of the following actions are also appropriate? -
✔✔Have the diver breathe emergency oxygen
Keep the diver lying down
Treat the diver for shock
Monitor the diver's breathing and heartbeat
✔✔While diving from shore, you're involved with an emergency involving a man who
has experienced drowning. He was retrieved from the water and wasn't breathing, but
resumed breathing and came back after two or three rescue breathes. He now claims
he's fine. You should respond - ✔✔that he should get medical attention because
dangerous secondary symptoms can develop hours after drowning
✔✔True or False: You're rescuing an unresponsive diver who isn't breathing. You're in
the water at the surface giving rescue breaths and estimate that you're about a 15-
minute swim to shore. After a minute of giving breaths, the victim shows no signs of
