PADI temp card question
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if it's just a matter of verification (and it sounds like it is not) any PADI pro can do it.
to the OP, if I'm mistaken and it IS just a matter of verification (that is you think it's processed and you just didn't receive the temp card) send me a PM with her name and birthdate and I would be happy to look it up.
kari
to the OP, if I'm mistaken and it IS just a matter of verification (that is you think it's processed and you just didn't receive the temp card) send me a PM with her name and birthdate and I would be happy to look it up.
kari
A way you can find out if the cert has been processed by PADI and she is in the system is to go through the motions of buying a replacement card on PADI's website (but without paying anything). About 2 or 3 steps in (and well before they ask for a credit card) it will show you a list of certifications that they have in their system for a diver. All you need is the person's first name, middle initial, last name and date of birth.
fnfalman
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What about having the instructor sign the dive logs and wrote it on as "certified" or something?
Sorry to say, some times people just don't get work done. In a small business, and a dive shop IS a small business, often only one employee (owner in this case) has the ability to do a particular task (log in as the shop and do the online PIC). While it doesn't take much time, the unfortunate part is that the owner may well have other things higher on his to-do list.
Solution? Be a squeaky wheel and keep calling and explaining WHY it is important that the PIC be processed ASAP.
Solution? Be a squeaky wheel and keep calling and explaining WHY it is important that the PIC be processed ASAP.
I tried the lost card thing through PADI's website and her name doesn't come up at all. The shop has a handful of employees that I have seen and I actually like the shop, other than everything is seriously overpriced (190 for a pair of tusa fins that divers supply sells for 130). The instructor is cool but it just when people give different answers that makes me concerned, plus I leave in a couple days and the whole trip is planned around this. But I will see what happens tomorrow.
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fnfalman
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It's too bad that the shop doesn't have a small stock of paper PICs for use when the person authorized to process online PICs is absent.
At any rate, PADI standards stipulate that a certification MUST be processed within seven days of completion of the course (unless the delay is caused by the student), so if you do not get the temp cert within that time, phone PADI's 800 number and explain the situation to somebody so that they can light a fire under the shop's tail and get it done.
At any rate, PADI standards stipulate that a certification MUST be processed within seven days of completion of the course (unless the delay is caused by the student), so if you do not get the temp cert within that time, phone PADI's 800 number and explain the situation to somebody so that they can light a fire under the shop's tail and get it done.
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