KevinNM
Contributor
I found deep useful because I realized I was pretty narked at 140, so I decided I don’t want to go there much.
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
Honestly, I don't see where you are going. I don't see where comparing an object (Rolex for your choice of looks) to training is pertinent.
I have no objection to AOW training. I do have objection to training like "deep diver" and "fish identification".
Way back in the day, I think I remember (from when my friend had a dive shop), there was OW certification, Dive Master and Instructor (this was back in the 80's). Now, I keep seeing PADI divide and subdivide "certifications". However, the path to instructor is OW -> AOW -> RD -> DM -> Instructor. Fish Identification isn't on that path, as aren't a bunch of other certs that are really just revenue generating for the dive shop and the organization.
We are open water certified
Next month going to Cozumel
We are doing Advanced open and Nitrox
And considering adding deep diver I think it only requires 3 dives because they can count the one from Advanced
Do you think this is too much to soon
I dont think it is because I will be doing it with instructors
And after getting the cards I still plan to keep most dives under 100 feet and build it up with more experience
Any advice
Thanks
No need to do all classes on one vacation trip. Keep something to look forward to for next year's vacation. There's a lot you can do with AOW alone before Deep.
How about night diving? Why You Should Experience Night Diving in Cancun and Cozumel
I don't know if the boat specialty/adventure dive is worth it, but I enjoy night diving very much.
I never saw the benefit of counting a dive for two different certs.
I was SDI until MSD and took a smattering of SDI, SSI, and PADI certs. We agree completely on Nitrox. Just needs to have a session with instructor to test the tank and chat about stuff.I'll disagree with the good professor when it comes to nitrox and navigation specialties.
Another would be a navigation specialty that I can see combined with Rescue diver. A HUGE portion of our curriculum is based on the divers ability to navigate so if you do it right, combining those two courses is easy enough and I have little issue with those dives counting twice.