Sorry to say that Padi does require 20 logged dives for rescue and 50 for master diver, 60 for divemaster
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Abysmaldiver, You sure about that? I just did Rescue and I don't have 20 logged dives and the LDS knows that. I can't find a required number of dives for rescue anywhere on the PADI site.
Not sure, but seem to remember the disclaimer "upon completion of course" attached to required dive numbers.N@rco$i$:
Straight out of the instructor manual, 20 logged dives for rescue with proof of navigation and deep dives(not full certs just experience), 50 logged dives for master diver, and 60 logged dives for dive master. Not to say that all instructors check on this but it is standard.
PADI does require minimum number of dives to progress in education. One really great buddy who completed the PADI Rescue DIver course with me, cannot take the DM course with me, because he does not have the minimum 60 dives.
I have taken 2 SSI courses and 4 PADI courses. I am now continuing a 5th with PADI DM. For me, the PADI courses were more thorough and demanding than the SSI courses.
The instructors make ALL of the difference.
I have taken 2 SSI courses and 4 PADI courses. I am now continuing a 5th with PADI DM. For me, the PADI courses were more thorough and demanding than the SSI courses.
The instructors make ALL of the difference.
Hey divedoggie, tell your friend he can start padi dm with as little as 20 dives. He has to have the 60 by the time he finishes to get the cert.
I am not sure that you can be sure you are getting good information in a forum such as this. The person writing in may be a very objective, clear-headed, and informed person. Or he or she could be an ill-informed hothead who overreacts to half knowledge and rumor.
How will you know the difference?
I have seen a lot of misinformation spewed out in these forums in anger.
One of the biggest mistakes is to make the hasty generalization fallacy. It goes like this. "I had a bad experience with a specific instructor from [whatever agency]. Therefore that entire agency must suck."
Take anything you read here with enormous quantities of salt grains.
How will you know the difference?
I have seen a lot of misinformation spewed out in these forums in anger.
One of the biggest mistakes is to make the hasty generalization fallacy. It goes like this. "I had a bad experience with a specific instructor from [whatever agency]. Therefore that entire agency must suck."
Take anything you read here with enormous quantities of salt grains.
Just as an example of what I wrote earlier, check out the new thread on the 60 foot limit for OW divers.
If you read them, you will find posts stating that PADI, SSI, and NAUI all have the same limit.
Then you will read posts saying that it is all because PADI is trying to make money.
If you read them, you will find posts stating that PADI, SSI, and NAUI all have the same limit.
Then you will read posts saying that it is all because PADI is trying to make money.
boulderjohn:
I didn't realize that PADI generated revenue from NAUI and SSI courses. Wow. That is some business model...
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