southernblue
Registered
Hello all i thought i would tell you about my AOW course i completed on the weekend.
To start the day off, we were told that since we had booked and paid a deposit the day we got OW certified, the course had changed from 3 boat dives to 2, there was no night dive, and that we would have to pay for the extra boat dive:shakehead
My brother and i politely told the instructor that we had paid a deposit on 3 boat dives and thought it a bit rough we should have to pay extra for the boat dive, in one ear and out the other, we didn't argue the point and let it go at that.
We started the classroom session with the plan to dive the afternoon fom the shore for some nav skills that we did, and also had a play with some scooters off the pier, and looked forward to the boat dives the next day for the deep dive and another boat dive for the search and recovery/naturalist part of the course.
The next day the deep dive was canned as there was not enough people for the boat, so we did a search and recover again from the shore and waited for the afternoon boat dive.
The boat dive was at a depth of 22m which wasn't what we had paid for and was disappointing not to get down to 30m as the course had outlined.
My brother and i felt ripped off and not happy at all with the dive shop and the standard of training we got for our AOW, seems we have just paid the money to get certified without any real benifit from learning new skills.
Am i asking too much of the advanced course, or have we been dudded?
To start the day off, we were told that since we had booked and paid a deposit the day we got OW certified, the course had changed from 3 boat dives to 2, there was no night dive, and that we would have to pay for the extra boat dive:shakehead
My brother and i politely told the instructor that we had paid a deposit on 3 boat dives and thought it a bit rough we should have to pay extra for the boat dive, in one ear and out the other, we didn't argue the point and let it go at that.
We started the classroom session with the plan to dive the afternoon fom the shore for some nav skills that we did, and also had a play with some scooters off the pier, and looked forward to the boat dives the next day for the deep dive and another boat dive for the search and recovery/naturalist part of the course.
The next day the deep dive was canned as there was not enough people for the boat, so we did a search and recover again from the shore and waited for the afternoon boat dive.
The boat dive was at a depth of 22m which wasn't what we had paid for and was disappointing not to get down to 30m as the course had outlined.
My brother and i felt ripped off and not happy at all with the dive shop and the standard of training we got for our AOW, seems we have just paid the money to get certified without any real benifit from learning new skills.
Am i asking too much of the advanced course, or have we been dudded?