SSI First Aid, CPR & AED Certification
You've watched the CPR poster a hundred times. You've never actually pressed your hands into a chest and counted out the rhythm yourself.
Knowing CPR exists and being ready to perform it in the chaotic first minute of an emergency are two very different things. First Aid, CPR & AED gives you real, scenario-based practice built around the kinds of emergencies divers actually encounter.
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Knowing CPR Exists Is Not the Same as Being Ready to Use It.
When something goes wrong on a dive day, the first responder is almost always the other diver. Trained or not. The gap between knowing that CPR exists and actually performing it under pressure is closed by one thing: practiced repetition with a real instructor giving real feedback. React Right is that course.
React Right covers First Aid, CPR, and AED in one training day. Oxygen Provider is a separate companion course at $149, and both are typically taken together as preparation for DSR. No diving required. Required as a prerequisite for SSI Diver Stress and Rescue and the Divemaster pathway. $189 (First Aid, CPR & AED) · Oxygen Provider available separately for $149 · $719 full bundle with DSR. Minimum age 12. Signup now!!
React Right Is for Anyone Who Wants to Be Prepared When It Matters
You dive with a buddy and want to be genuinely useful in an emergency
First Aid and CPR skills apply on the surface after every dive. React Right makes them practiced rather than theoretical.
You are taking Diver Stress and Rescue
React Right First Aid/CPR/AED and Oxygen Provider certifications are both required before DSR certification. Take them together or add Oxygen Provider for $149.
Professional development requires current emergency response training
SSI Divemaster candidates must hold current O2 Provider, First Aid, and CPR certifications. React Right covers all three.
You want emergency response skills for diving and everyday life
CPR, AED, and First Aid skills apply far beyond diving. One training day adds capability you carry everywhere.
Course at a Glance
| Price | $189 (First Aid, CPR & AED) · Oxygen Provider available separately for $149 · $719 full bundle with DSR |
| Format | Classroom and scenario-based practical · no diving required |
| Time commitment | One full day · classroom plus hands-on scenario practice |
| Location | Tom’s Dive & Swim · 5909 Burnet Rd, Austin TX 78757 |
| Prerequisites | Minimum age 12 · no diving certification required |
| Certification awarded | SSI React Right First Aid / CPR / AED · valid for 2 years · Oxygen Provider certification awarded separately |
| CE lane | Dive Ready → |
Choose Your Next Step
You want practiced, scenario-based emergency skills before something goes wrong
One day covers scene management, CPR, AED, and First Aid together, applied in realistic scenarios, not learned in isolation.
You want to start with the single most dive-specific emergency skill
Oxygen Provider is a shorter half-day course and can be taken on its own before or after React Right.
You are ready for full in-water rescue training
DSR requires React Right and Oxygen Provider as prerequisites, so this course comes first.
What React Right Actually Covers
"I already know CPR from a class years ago."
CPR certifications expire and guidelines update. React Right combines current CPR, AED, and First Aid in a single dive-specific training day with practical scenario application, not just technique review.
"This is just a prerequisite checkbox, not real training."
React Right is scenario-based. Every skill ends with applied practice under instructor feedback, not a written test. The point is to build a response you can execute under pressure, not one you can recite.
"I need to be a diver to take this."
No diving certification required. React Right is open to anyone age 12 and older. The skills apply in and around the water, on boats, and anywhere an emergency can happen.
"One day is not enough to actually learn this."
The course is designed around focused scenario practice rather than lecture-heavy classroom time. One full training day is sufficient to certify when the teaching is built around doing, not watching.
Ready to be the prepared one?
React Right: $189 · Austin, TX
First Aid, CPR & AED. Add Oxygen Provider for $149. Call (512) 451-3425 to schedule.
Signup now!!One Day. Classroom and Scenario Practice on Every Skill.
Classroom instruction followed by hands-on scenario practice for every component. You leave with practiced responses, not just awareness.
How to assess a scene, identify hazards, and determine the severity of an emergency before acting. Scene management protects you and the patient.
Primary survey, wound care, shock management, and how to stabilize an injured diver for transport. Scenario practice with real feedback.
Two-rescuer CPR, rescue breathing, and AED operation practiced on a manikin until the sequence is automatic. AED device familiarization and common decision points.
Oxygen Provider is a separate half-day course at $149, typically taken alongside React Right. It covers assembly and operation of a recreational oxygen unit and is required before DSR certification alongside First Aid/CPR/AED.
Combined scenario applying all four skill sets: scene assessment, First Aid, CPR/AED, and oxygen delivery in sequence. Instructor evaluates and debriefs.
Practiced Emergency Response You Can Actually Execute Under Pressure
- Practiced CPR and AED sequence that can be executed under pressure, not just recalled from memory
- First Aid skills for scene management and diver stabilization
- Certification satisfying the First Aid/CPR/AED component of DSR and Divemaster prerequisites (valid 2 years) · pair with Oxygen Provider ($149) to satisfy all DSR emergency response requirements
React Right Sits in the Dive Ready Group
Dive Ready is cross-cutting: it supports every pathway lane rather than belonging to one. React Right is also a required prerequisite for Diver Stress and Rescue and the Divemaster pathway.
Control / Comfort
Buoyancy and other core skills that make rescue scenarios easier to manage if they ever arise.
Dive Ready
Safety and readiness skills that support every pathway lane, including React Right and Diver Stress & Rescue.
Lead
Divemaster, instructor training, and other professional pathways, all of which require this course first.
We Build Divers We Would Trust With Our Own Families.
We teach every student to be their buddy’s backup plan. React Right is the course that makes that literal. The scenario-based format is the reason it works: practicing a CPR sequence in isolation is different from practicing the decision, the scene, the CPR, the AED, and the oxygen all in sequence under a realistic scenario debrief.
Tom’s has been Austin’s only SSI Dive Center since 1982, open longer than any other Austin dive shop still in business. Over 18,000 certified divers and over 400 five-star Google reviews.
Full Emergency Response Bundle Available
$719 covers React Right plus Diver Stress and Rescue in one scheduled course week. No hunting for separate training dates.
Open Longer Than Any Other Austin Dive Shop Still in Business
Four decades of training divers to respond when it matters, not just know that they should.
Practiced, Not Just Learned
Every skill in React Right ends with scenario application and instructor debrief, not just a written assessment.
30+ Tom’s Instructors
Flexible scheduling for your React Right training day.
We follow DAN dive safety protocols.
Tom’s follows Divers Alert Network (DAN) safety standards and recommends DAN dive accident insurance for every certified diver. Safety is not a checkbox on our website. It is the foundation of how Tom’s has operated since 1982.
Frequently Asked Questions
React Right certifications are valid for two years. DSR certification requires current React Right credentials within two years of completion.
No. React Right is open to anyone age 12 and older. No diving certification required.
Yes. Oxygen Provider is a separate course at $149. Both First Aid/CPR/AED and Oxygen Provider are required before DSR certification. If you already hold current CPR and First Aid from another provider, call (512) 451-3425 to discuss whether those certifications satisfy SSI requirements.
React Right is SSI’s emergency response training program. Call Tom’s to discuss whether your existing CPR/First Aid certifications from another provider satisfy SSI requirements for DSR or Divemaster.
Ready to be the prepared one?
React Right: $189 · Austin, TX
Call (512) 451-3425 to schedule your training day.
Signup now!!