AOW cost?

[pablovi]

I'm paying about 500 USD for the AOW with 4 speacialities thorugh SSI, including all materials.

 

[xfive4x]

I am getting a heck of a deal on my class. I am taking AOW through my school and my PADI instructor is giving the class for $90 + the cost of the book, and will take $90 off of our $350 dive trip to the Keys which includes all meals and lodging. I am pretty excited about it.

 

[all4scuba05]

I'm in the TDi class now. Somehow I've gotten the impression that for SDI Nitrox they don't teach with the tables. I think they just require you to know how to use the computer you have to not kill yourself down there. Not that it will help either way.

 

[Scuba_Steve]

That was my gut feeling as well. To call it the "SDI Computer nitrox course", it seemed to me it was/is a half-baked attempt at under-training/watering down etc of the material, yet even further to sell somebody a card, and the way of doing that is to teach the absolute minimum, set the computer, and shut the mind totally down altogether.

I still could be wrong, as I've yet to see an SDI nitrox course around our parts. They are all the TDI version, which does include some table-type work etc.

If ya find out anything more, let us know, I'm interested. (Gotta find an SDI/TDI Instructor around these parts).... are they really that scarce?

 

[Skinsfan1311]

PADI AOW in St. Lucia $250.00 included all the materials and the 5 dives....

 

[all4scuba05]

they must be scarce because I've yet run into anyone who's said they've certified through SDI. I wonder what advantage a shop has in choosing one agency over another one.

 

[Scuba_Steve]

For me it was a matter of what was the most popular agency in my area, and generally Padi "wins" by default.