Hi,
A strange question, and it doesn’t apply to me or anyone I know, promise!
It seems that for Divemaster, you need to be Rescue certified. Makes sense.
For Rescue, you’d imagine that you need to be Advanced certified. But you actually only need “Adventure Diver” plus a Nav dive.
Advanced is pretty much the same as Adventure, but with a little theory, a Nav dive and a Deep dive.
Does this mean you can be Divemaster certified, without ever having done your Advanced or potentially ever having exceeded 18m?
To clarify again, this does not apply to me, I have done my Advanced already and I’m thinking of going for Rescue and Divemaster. I’m just wondering if this is a real loophole, and if there’s some interesting reason why it might be intentional.
(Maybe to allow Divemaster certs in areas where dive sites don’t exceed 18m..?)
I tried searching but I couldn’t hit on the right key words.
Thanks
Chris
A strange question, and it doesn’t apply to me or anyone I know, promise!
It seems that for Divemaster, you need to be Rescue certified. Makes sense.
For Rescue, you’d imagine that you need to be Advanced certified. But you actually only need “Adventure Diver” plus a Nav dive.
Advanced is pretty much the same as Adventure, but with a little theory, a Nav dive and a Deep dive.
Does this mean you can be Divemaster certified, without ever having done your Advanced or potentially ever having exceeded 18m?
To clarify again, this does not apply to me, I have done my Advanced already and I’m thinking of going for Rescue and Divemaster. I’m just wondering if this is a real loophole, and if there’s some interesting reason why it might be intentional.
(Maybe to allow Divemaster certs in areas where dive sites don’t exceed 18m..?)
I tried searching but I couldn’t hit on the right key words.
Thanks
Chris