Master Diver - worth getting?
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What does a NAUI MSD program entail?
Have you heard of SSI/SDI Adv wreck course? I heard they have a similar course
Walter Sobchak
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I have been on a few different forums, The Rolex Forums for example, and it really doesn’t seem to take long for them to put a bad taste in your mouth. I have attempted to use them to glean some useful information. Granted one can take from them what you want. But this thread about MSD is sticking in my craw. Most threads on here seem, very quickly, to devolve into PADI-bashing. If an individual wishes to obtain an MSD rating - it is simply a personal accomplishment. It is not a money grab and it doesn’t need to prove anything to dive ops, self-proclaimed experts or cynical assholes that sit behind a computer.
hey, if getting your MSD gets you in the water then go for it.... Personally I just see it as card collecting (and I am a PADI instructor). I would rather see a diver just diving... if there is a card that interests them then by all means pay an instructor to introduce you to that specialty. JUST GO DIVE!!!! DON"T GO PRO until you are 100% sure you want to take on that burden and it IS a burden. Sure the MSD will help you in the long run if you do jump to instructor but then I'd rather have a solid instructor in the core parts of diving than one that could teach me something I don't care about anyway.
Probably said it upthread, but since someone woke up the zombie I'll say it again.
If you really love diving and want to get more into it, and more out of it, AN/DP is far better than MSD, even if you never go into deco outside of training. It really upgrades your whole approach to diving and planning in ways that the recreational courses don't.
I mean, of COURSE if you want MSD or like having it for whatever personal reason, that's up to you. And that's totally irrelevant from the point of view of an online forum where people share their views.
If you just want MSD because you want MSD and aren't interested in hearing any other opinions, then just get it and be happy. No need for namecalling other people who are participating in the discussion.
If you really love diving and want to get more into it, and more out of it, AN/DP is far better than MSD, even if you never go into deco outside of training. It really upgrades your whole approach to diving and planning in ways that the recreational courses don't.
I mean, of COURSE if you want MSD or like having it for whatever personal reason, that's up to you. And that's totally irrelevant from the point of view of an online forum where people share their views.
If you just want MSD because you want MSD and aren't interested in hearing any other opinions, then just get it and be happy. No need for namecalling other people who are participating in the discussion.
I was a PADI pro, had boatloads of cards. I wasn't a card collector, but I was always hungry for more skills. I never paid the fee for MSD. MSD does nothing for picking up specialties.
If I were to do things over again, I would have taken GUE fundies after OW and be done with it. T1 in place of AOW and a slew of others.
I think that's the best sequence of courses a diver can take. Just 3 courses.
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